All the headlines from our Casualty Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 25 2017 // AXIS Capital Holdings Limited has announced the appointments of James Martin and Russ Madore, each as vice president, U.S. Programs, within AXIS Insurance’s Property and Casualty team. Martin and Madore will each be...
May 16 2017 // Once again, Demotech Inc., the official research partner of Insurance Journal, identified the nation’s Super Regional Property/Casualty Insurers — P/C insurers writing multiple lines of insurance in multiple...
May 16 2017 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) is introducing public and products liability insurance in the UK, Ireland and Southern Europe, and employer’s liability insurance in the UK and Ireland, while naming...
May 9 2017 // Private U.S. property/casualty insurers lost big in 2016, reporting a $4.7 billion net underwriting loss driven, in part, by significantly higher catastrophe-related property losses, according to ISO and the Property...
May 3 2017 // Insurance Services United (ISU), a full-service insurance agency in York, Penn., has purchased Lewis Casualty, an insurance services company based in Quarryville, Penn.The purchase of Lewis Casualty is the second recent...
May 3 2017 // Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has appointed Stuart Sutherland as its head of Casualty.Based in LSM’s London headquarters, Sutherland will report to Alan Telford, chief...
May 2 2017 // Baton Rouge, La.-based Retailers Casualty Insurance Co., a workers’ comp insurer managed by Summit, has declared a $1.7 million policyholder dividend for the 2015 policy year. Retailers Casualty policies are...
Apr 28 2017 // Desjardins Group is looking to acquire insurers, wealth managers and payments firms to expand further outside Quebec and challenge the dominance of Canada’s big financial services firms, Chief Executive Officer Guy...
Apr 26 2017 // Ed, the London-based reinsurance, wholesale and specialty broker, announced the appointment of John Plummer as chairman of Property & Casualty. Plummer takes up his role with immediate effect.Plummer brings over 30...
Apr 26 2017 // Generali is expanding its U.S. global corporate and commercial operations with the opening of offices in Chicago and San Francisco in a bid to grab more business from U.S. multinational companies.The Italian...
Apr 25 2017 // XL Catlin’s Multinational Casualty business has introduced a new international liability coverage form designed for U.S.-based multinational companies to address their most complex casualty needs.The XL...
Apr 24 2017 // Hamilton Re, the Bermuda-based platform of Hamilton Insurance Group, announced it has agreed to acquire the renewal rights to Canopius Underwriting Bermuda Ltd.’s excess casualty insurance book of business.The...
Apr 10 2017 // XL Catlin’s insurance operations has named Nancy Bewlay as global chief underwriting officer, Casualty. In her new role, Bewlay assumes underwriting and portfolio management for all of XL Catlin’s Casualty...
Mar 29 2017 // A.M. Besthas assigned a long-term issuer credit rating (Long-Term ICR) of “bb” to ICC Holdings Inc.(ICC Holdings) in Rock Island, Ill., a recently formed publicly traded holding company for the demutualization...
Mar 23 2017 // Oswald Companies, based in Cleveland, Ohio, has appointed Suzanne Sandusky as global casualty practice leader for property/casualty. Sandusky will lead the independent insurance brokerage firm’s national and...
Mar 15 2017 // St. Louis, Mo.-based Safety National Casualty Corp. has promoted Cyndee Morton, Mitch Neuhaus and Keith Rogers to senior management positions.Morton has been promoted to senior vice president – Operations. Morton is...
Mar 14 2017 // Lloyd’s and modeling company Arium have launched a tool designed to enable insurers and reinsurers to model liability exposure probabilistically across their entire portfolios, Lloyd’s announced.“The new...
Mar 14 2017 // MMG Insurance Company, a regional property and casualty insurance company headquartered in Presque Isle, Maine, has promoted Steve Morgan to casualty claims manager, effective March 8, 2017.Morgan joined MMG in 2014 as the...
Mar 8 2017 // Maximum, an independent, Chicago-based excess and surplus lines wholesaler, has added Bria Christensen as a producer in its Omaha, Neb., office. Christensen most recently held a wholesale brokerage position at Ascension...
Feb 24 2017 // The Navigators Group Inc. said that David J. Draper has joined the company as head of International Casualty. Draper is responsible for developing Navigators’ international casualty business outside of the United...