Axis taps former AIG exec to lead health care specialty unit

Axis Capital Holdings Ltd. said Tuesday it hired former American International Group Inc. executive Debra Goldberg to lead the launch of an Allied Healthcare excess and surplus unit.

The new unit’s focus will include health care staffing, home health care, and pharmacies, the Bermuda-based holding company said in its announcement.

Ms. Goldberg was previously head of health care at Lexington Insurance Co., an excess and surplus lines unit of AIG.

She is based in Chicago and will report to Pauline Morley, head of E&O at Axis.