The need for the industry to embrace environmental insurance
He started from the bottom and now he’s making history.
He started from the bottom and now he’s making history.
Sixty-three-year-old David Dybdahl was one of the few professionals who studied and mastered the craft of insurance in college – in fact, he finished his BBA with a degree in risk management insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While he says he was not the brightest student in college, Dybdahl has certainly made a significant mark in the industry, particularly in the environmental insurance segment.
Dybdahl is the president of American Risk Management Resources Network (ARMR), a specialty insurance brokerage firm offering customized insurance products in the United States and Canada. Over the past three decades, he was able to work on the placement of thousands of environmental insurance policies both as the placing broker and as the global environmental practice leader.
Dybdahl served the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Contractor Indemnification Technical Review Panel in 1986, providing the panel with technical information on environmental insurance issues for the United States Department of Defense and Department of Energy.
He also once took the helm of the Environmental Task Force of the National Association of Insurance Brokers and, in 1999, he founded the Society of Environmental Insurance Professionals, an organization advocating for the enhancement of environmental insurance’s utilization as a risk management tool.
Insurance Business had a brief conversation with Dybdahl to get to know his insights about the industry. In this profile piece, he shares the most challenging issue facing the environmental insurance industry. He also outlines his hopes for the industry for the years to come.