All the headlines from our Casualty Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 13 2015 // Everest Re Group, Ltd., has expanded its U.S. specialty insurance platform, Everest National Insurance Co., with the introduction of a new dedicated Inland Marine underwriting team. Everest National is pursuing a broad and...
Nov 12 2015 // Medical professional liability insurer, Professional Casualty Association (PCA), has been approved for operations by the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services as a licensed and admitted carrier, effective...
Nov 11 2015 // Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance, has appointed Michael Finnegan to the newly-created position of chief underwriting officer for U.S. operations.Prior to joining LIU, Finnegan was...
Nov 9 2015 // Allianz Insurance, the U.K. subsidiary of Allianz SE, has appointed Lee Watts as head of casualty claims.Watts will be responsible for leading the development and implementation of technical claims strategy and best...
Nov 5 2015 // St. Louis, Mo.-based Safety National Casualty Corp. is realigning its claims department with management changes.Carl Reynolds, senior vice president – Claims, has retired after a successful 30-year career with Safety...
Nov 3 2015 // Marsh has launched Marsh IO+, an enhanced excess casualty product designed for companies with significant product and other mass tort exposures.Organizations like retailers, food and beverage companies, construction firms,...
Nov 2 2015 // American International Group Inc., the insurer facing pressure from activist shareholder Carl Icahn for a breakup, posted a third-quarter loss as investment results deteriorated. The company plans to cut as many as 400...
Oct 29 2015 // A.M. Best has revised the outlook to stable from negative and affirmed the financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating of “a-” for Midwest Builders’ Casualty Mutual Insurance...
Oct 16 2015 // The Main Street America Group, a super-regional property/casualty mutual insurance holding company, has appointed Chris Cox to president of Old Dominion Insurance Co., its primary writing company and brand throughout...
Sep 28 2015 // Worldwide Facilities, a wholesale broker and managing general agent based in Los Angeles, hired Bill Craane as vice president and New York Casualty Practice leader. He’s based in Worldwide Facilities’ New York...
Sep 25 2015 // Great American Insurance Group based in Cincinnati, Ohio, has named James (Jim) R. Niehaus was named senior vice president and chief information officer of its Property and Casualty Group. Jim Niehaus Niehaus joined the...
Sep 23 2015 // New York, NY, September 22, 2015 — Worldwide Facilities, LLC is pleased to announce that Bill Craane has joined the company’s New York City office in the position of Vice President & NY Casualty Practice...
Sep 17 2015 // A.M. Best has downgraded the issuer credit rating (ICR) to “bb” from “bb+” and affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of B (Fair) of American Access Casualty Company (AACC), based in Chicago,...
Sep 16 2015 // Beecher Carlson Insurance Services LLC, a specialized large account insurance broker and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., hired Jason Ross as casualty client executive, Northeast Casualty...
Sep 16 2015 // Hiscox has merged its Bermuda and London Market casualty reinsurance teams. The new division, operating under the Hiscox Re brand, and led by Nick Pascall as head of Casualty Reinsurance, controls a combined portfolio of...
Sep 9 2015 // The Texas Department of Insurance has produced a summary of various bills passed by the Texas Legislature this year that impact property/casualty insurance companies. Many but not all of the following were effective Sept....
Sep 9 2015 // Willis North America has appointed Eric Silverstein, formerly of Lockton, as senior vice president of National Casualty.In this role, Silverstein will support workers’ compensation, primary and excess casualty,...
Sep 7 2015 // FLOIR has approved the removal of up to 279,357 personal residential policies and 1,500 commercial residential polices from Citizens Property Insurance Corp. by the following seven companies: Anchor Property &...
Sep 7 2015 // Lloyd’s international casualty reinsurance underwriters are running the risk of repeating the same mistakes that have placed the market in difficulty in the past, according to a new poll of Lloyd’s reinsurance...
Sep 3 2015 // XL Catlin’s Excess & Surplus (E&S) Casualty business has unveiled a new geographically-focused structure and named three new regional leaders. Coy Rudd is appointed East regional vice president in New York;...