Seventeen Guy Carpenter Brokers Selected to Risk & Insurance "Reinsurance Power Brokers"...

Seventeen Guy Carpenter Brokers Selected to Risk & Insurance "Reinsurance Power Brokers" List

NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--
Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC, the leading global risk and
reinsurance specialist, today announced that 17 members of its global
team have been named to Risk & Insurance magazine's annual
"Reinsurance Power Brokers" list. The list recognizes individual
reinsurance brokers for unparalleled client service, deep industry
expertise, strong communication and negotiation skills, high ethical
standards, and creativity in solving clients' risk management
problems.

"We are proud of the Guy Carpenter colleagues recognized by their
industry peers for their skills and accomplishments across a wide
range of business lines and disciplines," said Peter Zaffino,
President and CEO, Guy Carpenter. "They exemplify the level of
dedication and talent that Guy Carpenter offers in providing
high-value solutions to our clients."

In addition to individual brokers, Guy Carpenter's i-aXs(R) team
was also named to the list. The i-aXs group was cited as being "the
first of its kind to deliver a Web platform with reporting and mapping
to not only the property line of business but also the workers'
compensation, accident and health lines." Several clients were quoted,
stating, "Their advice has been right on the mark... (i-aXs) gives us
a competitive advantage in the marketplace. The people there are top
notch."

Guy Carpenter brokers were honored in each of the six categories:

-- Property - Andrew Bossom, Timothy Gardner, Bernie O'Hara

-- Casualty - Bill Allen, Michelle Harnick, Charles Griffin,
David Sapia, Edward Sweeney

-- Catastrophe - David Duffy, Eric Excoffier

-- Analytics-Capital Markets - Guy Carpenter i-aXs(R) team (Amy
Block, Shajy Mathai, Lara Mowery, Matt Witte)

-- Professional Liability - Julia Chu, Will Garland

-- Facultative - Mark Maritzen

The total number of 17 Guy Carpenter honorees comprise a third of
the 2008 list. In 2007, 10 Guy Carpenter brokers were named to the
list.

About Guy Carpenter

Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC is the world's leading risk and
reinsurance specialist and a part of the Marsh & McLennan Companies.
With 50 offices worldwide, Guy Carpenter creates and executes
reinsurance solutions and delivers capital market solutions* for
clients across the globe. The firm's full breadth of services includes
line of business expertise in Agriculture; Aviation; Casualty Clash;
Construction and Engineering; Excess and Umbrella; Life, Accident and
Health; Marine; Medical; Political Risk and Trade Credit; Professional
Liability; Property; Retrocessional Reinsurance; Surety; Terrorism and
Workers Compensation. GCFac(R) is Guy Carpenter's dedicated global
facultative reinsurance unit that provides placement strategies,
timely market access and centralized management of facultative
reinsurance solutions. In addition, Guy Carpenter's Instrat(R) unit
utilizes industry-leading quantitative skills and modeling tools that
optimize the reinsurance decision-making process and help make the
firm's clients more successful. Guy Carpenter's website address is
www.guycarp.com.

* Securities or investments, as applicable, are offered in the
United States through GC Securities, which is a division of MMC
Securities Corp., a US registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/SIPC.
Main Office: 1166 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036. Phone:
(212) 345-5000. Advice on securities or investments in the European
Union is provided through GC Securities Ltd., authorized and regulated
in the UK by the Financial Services Authority. Reinsurance products
are placed through qualified affiliates of Guy Carpenter & Company,
LLC. MMC Securities Corp., GC Securities Ltd. and Guy Carpenter &
Company, LLC are affiliates owned by Marsh & McLennan Companies. This
communication is not intended as an offer to sell or a solicitation of
any offer to buy any security, financial instrument, reinsurance or
insurance product.

Guy Carpenter
Alexis Levenson, 917-937-3264
alexis.levenson@guycarp.com
or
DeMartine Group
Joanne Lessner, 203.221.2790
jlessner@demartinegroup.com

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