NEW BERLIN, N.Y. — Michael DeHetre has joined Preferred Mutual Insurance Company as senior VP of underwriting and product.
He will provide leadership and strategic vision to the firm’s underwriting function, product-development initiatives, and agency partnership development.
DeHetre has 29 years of underwriting experience along with operational and leadership knowledge with considerable time in commercial lines underwriting.
Before joining Preferred Mutual, DeHetre served as chief underwriting officer at Berkley Life Sciences, as well as held several leadership roles in underwriting services with national carriers. In his previous role, he focused on driving profitable growth strategies and product development along with process improvement and automation design. He also worked to improve customer service and agency interactions and established an underwriting and sales culture that emphasized the importance of the independent agent.
Headquartered in New Berlin, Preferred Mutual Insurance provides property and casualty insurance coverage to more than 232,000 individual and business customers through a network of more than 500 independent agents in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.
