All the headlines from our Casualty Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 5 2017 // Specialty insurer AXIS Insurance has named James DeSimone to a new role as senior vice president, Primary Casualty. In this new role, DeSimone manages the underwriting team responsible for Primary Casualty in the Northeast...
Jun 26 2017 // Everest Re Group, Ltd. announced that Matthew Kelly has joined the group as vice president and head of the Reinsurance Division’s International Casualty Facultative unit and is based in Everest Re’s Miami...
Jun 16 2017 // Midwest Employers Casualty has promoted Brian Billings to vice president of Predictive Analytics.As the Midwest Employers Casualty strategy evolved from data acquisition to leveraging data assets, Billings led the effort...
Jun 15 2017 // Kevin Loppnow has joined Lockton’s Milwaukee office as a property/casualty unit manager.Loppnow is an industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience as a property/casualty strategist. He previously worked for...
Jun 6 2017 // Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc., a property and casualty insurance holding company, announced that its insurance subsidiaries, Heritage Property & Casualty Insurance Co. and Zephyr Insurance Co., have completed the...
Jun 1 2017 // Chubb has named John Watkins as senior vice president, head of Casualty Claims for North America. Watkins will be responsible for managing approximately 325 casualty claims examiners and will oversee primary, excess, and...
May 26 2017 // A.M. Best has assigned a financial strength rating of A (Excellent) and a long-term issuer credit rating of “a+” to Integrity Select Insurance Co. (Integrity Select) in Appleton, Wis.The outlook assigned to...
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...