EverPeak® Names Patrick Daley Chief Underwriting Officer

Veteran underwriting leader with 30+ years of experience in complex property, programs, and specialty risk joins to strengthen EverPeak’s appetite for complex and hard-to-place risks 

DENVER - Oct. 27, 2026 - EverPeak today announced the appointment of Patrick K. Daley, CPCU, as Chief Underwriting Officer. Daley brings more than three decades of experience underwriting large, complex, and hard-to-place risks at some of the industry’s most respected carriers, including Zurich Insurance, The Hartford, and GuideOne Insurance.

Daley will lead underwriting strategy and quality standards across EverPeak’s lines of business. EverPeak is built for businesses that don’t quit, and Daley’s track record of taking on difficult, volatile, and nonstandard exposures matches that purpose.

“Patrick has built his career on underwriting the risks that demand real judgment and discipline,” said Kathy Kranz, President, EverPeak. “As EverPeak continues to expand its offerings, his expertise in complex and hard-to-place risk is exactly what we need.”

A career built on complex risk

Daley has spent his career in the areas in which underwriting is hardest. At Zurich Insurance, he held a series of leadership roles over nearly a decade. He then served as Head of Large Property at The Hartford, where he led underwriting for some of the largest and most complex property exposures in the market.

Most recently, Daley was Head of Underwriting Services at Glatfelter Insurance Group. Before that, as Chief Underwriting Officer of GuideOne Insurance, he led the re-underwriting of multiple portfolios.

Across his career, Daley has established go-to-market line of business strategies, developed underwriting quality standards, optimized reinsurance strategies, managed catastrophe aggregations, built pricing models, expanded the use of predictive analytics, established underwriting training programs, and launched new products. Early in his career he held underwriting roles at Swiss Re, CNA Re, GE Insurance, and Chubb.

Priorities at EverPeak

Daley’s first priorities include building a new value proposition for EverPeak’s Workers’ Compensation Middle Market business, which has long relied on deep data analysis, technology, and service. He will also lead the relaunch of Attune’s BOP product and the cross-selling of BOP and other products to workers’ compensation customers.

Daley holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation, an MBA from DePaul University’s Kellstadt School of Business, and a bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University.

About EverPeak^®  Insurance 

EverPeak Insurance is a workers’ compensation insurance solution offering comprehensive coverage and market-leading service for businesses across the United States. With an approach to care based on Pinnacol Assurance’s 100+ years of industry-leading underwriting, claims and risk management experience, we cover the hardest-working businesses because we work hard, too. EverPeak Insurance offers skilled protection for businesses with the toughest risks and partners with insurance agents who strive to offer the best protection to those businesses that need it most. Learn more at everpeak.com.

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