Axis Insurance, the specialty insurance business segment of Bermuda-based Axis Capital Holdings Limited, has appointed Abiy Dadi as vice president of the US excess casualty team, effective immediately.

Mr Dadi will be responsible for cultivating and strengthening relationships with wholesale distribution partners, enhancing new and existing business opportunities, and executing underwriting strategy.

He will be based in Alpharetta, Georgia and will report to Britt Smith, senior vice president, US excess casualty.

Axis Capital, through its operating subsidiaries, is a global provider of specialty lines insurance and treaty reinsurance with shareholders' equity of $5.4 billion at June 30, and locations in Bermuda, the United States, Europe, Singapore and Canada.