Originally named Stalker Hutchison & Associates, the company was founded in 1985 by Angus Hutchison and Tony Stalker as a local broad form liability alternative to the Lloyd’s market.

The SHA partnership with southern Africa’s largest insurer, Santam, dates back to as early as 2000, with SHA becoming a wholly owned underwriting manager.

As from 2021 SHA is now a division of Santam Ltd.

In 2008, a merger with Admiral Underwriting gave birth to the entity, Stalker Hutchison Admiral (Pty) Ltd, who became a wholly owned subsidiary of Santam Ltd, the largest short term insurer in southern Africa. On 1 January 2021, SHA became a division of Santam Ltd and we remain known to our brokers in the market simply as SHA Risk Specialists.

SHA is synonymously known as the largest niche casualty insurance provider on the African continent. All of SHA’s insurance products are underwritten exclusively by Santam. Today we are proud to be associated with the majority of the South African Financial Mail’s Top 100 companies as well as a broad spectrum of medium to smaller enterprises locally and internationally.

SHA Risk Specialists is a division of Santam Ltd. Santam Ltd is an Authorised Financial Services Provider (FSP 3416).

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