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Allianz Legal Protection boosts sales and distribution team
Allianz Legal Protection is boosting its sales and distribution team with the appointment of Jonathan Thomas as senior business developer.
Jon joined ALP’s Legal Expenses division, effective 19 September, working out of Bristol.
His experience within the legal expenses insurance sector spans 30 years, most of them at DAS. His background is largely in leadership and managing operational services such as legal advice, claims and contact centres.
James Barclay, head of sales and distribution at Allianz Legal Protection, said: “Jon’s experience will prove very valuable as we continue to evolve and grow our Legal Expenses proposition. We are so happy to have him with us.”
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About Allianz Legal Protection
Part of the Allianz group, Allianz Legal Protection is a legal protection insurer providing after-the-event (ATE) schemes for solicitors and before-the-event (BTE) products for insurers and intermediaries.
About Allianz
The Allianz Group is one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers with more than 100 million* private and corporate customers in more than 70 countries. Allianz customers benefit from a broad range of personal and corporate insurance services, ranging from property, life and health insurance to assistance services to credit insurance and global business insurance. Allianz is one of the world’s largest investors, managing 790 billion euros on behalf of its insurance customers. Furthermore, our asset managers PIMCO and Allianz Global Investors manage 1.7 trillion euros of third-party assets. Thanks to our systematic integration of ecological and social criteria in our business processes and investment decisions, we are amongst the leaders in the insurance industry in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. In 2021, over 150,000 employees achieved total revenues of 148.5 billion euros and an operating profit of 13.4 billion euros for the group.
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