Eric McCabe serves as Divisional Vice President and National Underwriting Director with Great American’s Environmental Division. As one of the few carriers dedicated to serving the environmental space for a dozen consecutive years, Great American Environmental offers exclusive environmental insurance solutions to a wide variety of commercial customers, successfully enabling businesses to manage their financial risks. In his role, he oversees underwriting operations for all lines of insurance products. With an extensive environmental background, McCabe has accumulated over 20 years working within the insurance field and brings expert guidance to his team of underwriters. McCabe’s career began as an environmental analyst, conducting various organic and inorganic analyses in accordance with EPA and ASTM methods. After earning his Juris Doctorate degree, he started working at the Town of Smithtown’s Department of Environment & Waterways (DEW). He reviewed site plans and maintained records and oversight for town environmental compliance issues pursuant to federal, state and county statutes and regulations. After passing the New York State Bar Exam, McCabe began working as an environmental claims analyst at AIG. Initially working with pollution claims filed under pre-pollution exclusion GL policies, he quickly transferred to the Pollution Insurance Products (PIP) claims department where he handled claims arising under fixed site and contractor’s pollution policies. McCabe’s legal training, background in real estate and understanding of secured transactions lead to his promotion to complex director of the PIP high profile claims department where he handled Secured Creditor (SC) and Cost Cap Claims with reserves exceeding five million dollars. McCabe settled over 200 million dollars in claims while simultaneously mitigating millions of dollars through the divestiture of contaminated real estate acquired under the SC program.Prior to joining Great American, McCabe worked for Chartis Insurance as a senior national underwriter, dealing with complex accounts. His responsibilities included evaluating commercial and industrial facilities, and collaborating with environmental consultants and contractors to identify environmental exposures and provide risk transfer solutions.