Kevin M. Rampe

Head of North America Claims, Chubb Group

Kevin M. Rampe is the Head of North America Claims for the Chubb Group. He previously served as Global Deputy General Counsel for Chubb Group and as the Global Compliance and Business Ethics Officer for the ACE Group of Companies. The Chubb Group is the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company. It is composed of leading insurance and reinsurance companies that serve a variety of clients around the world, from large multinational corporations to high net-worth individuals. Mr. Rampe is responsible for all North America Claims matters.  Mr. Rampe also serves as:

  • Founding Director and serves on both the Finance Committee and Executive Committee of the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum Foundation;
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Insurance Federation of New York; and
  • Trustee of the Citizens Budget Commission of New York City.

From 2008-2018 Mr. Rampe also served as a Board Member and Member of the Audit Committee of Global Container Terminals based in Vancouver, Canada and New York, NY. 

Prior to joining the Chubb Group, Mr. Rampe was appointed President of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) on March 4, 2003 and served in that role through May 2005. He was appointed as Chairman of the LMDC in May of 2006 and served as Chairman through May 2007. Mr. Rampe was appointed to serve on the LMDC’s Audit Committee in March 2008 and served in that capacity and on LMDC’s board through April 2014. During Mr. Rampe’s tenure as President, the city/state agency launched the international World Trade Center Memorial Competition leading to the selected memorial design “Reflecting Absence”, worked with Studio Daniel Libeskind to refine the master site plan, preserving the selected plan’s vision while producing a buildable site plan. Mr. Rampe also directed the development of a plan for the World Trade Center Site’s cultural core as well as off-site studies to redevelop Lower Manhattan. Prior to his appointment Mr. Rampe served as Executive Vice President of the LMDC from the agency’s inception. Mr. Rampe has been widely lauded for his contribution in stabilizing lower Manhattan in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and in leading the development of the plan for the rebuilding of lower Manhattan including recognition in February 2005 by Crain’s New York Business as one of “New York’s Rising Stars – 40 under 40.”

Prior to joining the LMDC, he served as First Deputy Superintendent and Chief Operating Officer of the New York State Insurance Department, managing the leading insurance regulatory agency in the country with a staff of approximately 1,500 people. Mr. Rampe led the Department’s initiative to safeguard the personal information of New Yorkers throughout the state, instituting landmark privacy reforms that served as a model for the rest of the nation. Mr. Rampe also oversaw the demutualization of some of the largest mutual insurance companies in the United States and speed to market, codification and other initiatives that modernized the agency’s operations.
 
Prior to joining the Insurance Department, Mr. Rampe was First Assistant Counsel to the Governor, where he served as Governor Pataki’s senior legal adviser on insurance, banking, civil justice, worker’s compensation and labor matters. He drafted and successfully negotiated legislation to lower insurance rates, protect consumers and punish businesses that violate New York State’s wage and labor laws. 

Prior to joining the Pataki Administration in 1996, Mr. Rampe was a litigator at the New York law firm, Shearman and Sterling, where he worked on domestic and international securities, antitrust and contract litigation and arbitration. Following the 1991 Gulf War, Mr. Rampe represented the government of Kuwait in preparing claims against Iraq arising from environmental and health damage suffered by the people of Kuwait. He received his B.A., cum laude, from Union College and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Albany Law School of Union University. He also has received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Union College where he was the commencement speaker in June 2004.  He lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania with his wife, Christine and their children William, Matthew, Lily and Emma.

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