All the headlines from our Casualty Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 4 2013 // FinSecure — a W.R. Berkley Corp. member company that focuses on insurance for financial institutions — announced that Elizabeth Loft Good has joined the company as vice president and chief underwriting officer...
Sep 3 2013 // Aspen US Insurance in New York has named Jude DiBattista as senior vice president and chief underwriting officer for Excess Casualty. DiBattista has 20 years of industry experience in property/casualty lines, most recently...
Aug 30 2013 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance says that so far, 207 Boston Marathon bombing-related property/casualty claims have been reported by the top 25 insurers and the residual market insurer Massachusetts FAIR Plan.These...
Aug 22 2013 // Worldwide Facilities, a Los Angeles-based independent surplus lines broker and managing general agency, appointed Kitti Peters as vice president and casualty broker with a specialization in construction. She based in...
Aug 15 2013 // The Plexus Groupe LLC, based in Deer Park, Ill., has added Debbi Incopero to its property/casualty insurance practice. As an account executive, Incopero will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing relationships with...
Aug 12 2013 // The ACE Group today announced the promotion of Jerome Salmon to the position of Regional Casualty Manager, Continental Europe. He will have profit center responsibility for ACE’s casualty portfolio across the region,...
Aug 5 2013 // Welcome to Insurance Journal‘s new and improved Top 100 Independent Property/Casualty Agencies report.This year’s Top 100 features a number of agencies that are new to the list thanks to a change that ranks the...
Aug 2 2013 // American International Group Inc. announced its first capital return since its 2008 bailout, through a dividend and share buyback, sending its shares up 6 percent after the bell.The insurer, which was almost wiped out by...
Jul 24 2013 // Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance, said Kelly Fusner has been appointed senior vice president of LIU’s Primary Casualty product line.Fusner will be responsible for the...
Jul 22 2013 // When a veteran of CNA joined Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance to lead the new venture’s professional liability division a few weeks ago, the news did not receive the press that followed the first four recruits...
Jul 17 2013 // W. R. Berkley Corp. said it has named Timothy F. Galvin as president of its subsidiary, Midwest Employers Casualty Co. (MECC). The appointment is effective immediately. Galvin succeeds Melodee J. Saunders, who has served...
Jul 16 2013 // The Navigators Group Inc. announced that its principal underwriting agency subsidiary, Navigators Management Company, named Timothy D. Ryan as president of the Excess Casualty unit of Navigators Specialty, which focuses...
Jul 16 2013 // Casualty actuaries can help insurers meet the demand for new products by identifying, analyzing and pricing new risks, according to two speakers at the srping meeting of the Casualty Actuarial Society.Since the mid-1980s,...
Jul 2 2013 // Reinsurers are taking “robust defensive measures to maintain market positions recently eroded by new capital markets entrants,” with prices down 25 percent on some Florida property accounts, according to a new...
Jun 24 2013 // First quarter results for U.S. property/casualty insurers show they made a profit on underwriting for the first time since late 2009.Private U.S. property/casualty insurers’ net income after taxes rose to $14.4...
Jun 18 2013 // A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to negative from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating of B+ (Good) and issuer credit rating of “bbb-” of Opelousas, La.-based Imperial Fire and Casualty...
Jun 18 2013 // The XL Group announced that it has appointed Valérie Devaux-Piquer to the position of Casualty Underwriting Manager, Europe, Reinsurance, effective Sept. 1, 2013.She will take the place of Dieter Kohl, who retires this...
Jun 17 2013 // Chevy Chase, Md.-based underwriting manager Victor O. Schinnerer & Company Inc. has tapped senior Marsh executive Jonathan M. Zaffino to be its president.Jonathan M. ZaffinoThe position of president was previously...
Jun 4 2013 // Southport Lane, a New York City-based private equity firm, has completed its acquisition of Louisiana-based Imperial Management Corp., along with its largest subsidiary, Imperial Fire & Casualty, in an all-cash...
May 31 2013 // A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to positive from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A+’ (Superior) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “aa” of the property/casualty...