Focus Group Leader - US Political Violence & Deadly Weapons Protection
SC, USA
+1 (770) 351 1718
lucy.straker@beazley.comLucy joined Beazley in April 2014 to start up the US Stand Alone Terrorism book. She spent 3 years in New York positioning Beazley as one of the lead markets for US terrorism. In 2017 Lucy returned to London to underwrite within the Political Violence team in Lloyd’s of London. Whilst in the UK she largely focused on the development and growth of the Deadly Weapons Protection book. Beazley are viewed as the lead player within this space. As at April 2022 Lucy moved to Charleston, South Carolina as US Focus Group Leader for Deadly Weapons Protection and Political Violence. She previously worked at Hiscox on the War, Terrorism and Political Violence account heading up the Northeast region of the US as well as working in the London Market. Prior to joining insurance Lucy studied Chemistry at the University of Bristol.
Fighting with police, metal barriers launched by angry crowds, officers throwing tear gas grenades into protestors – these are all memories of the unrest in Washington during the 6th January 2021 Capitol Hill riots.
Reports of students using firearms on fellow students or teachers are now so commonplace in the US that the news quickly moves on, often while the victims of such attacks are still processing what has happened.