All the headlines from our Casualty Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 11 2012 // Centennial, Colo.-based Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. regional company, named Michael C. Brewer to regional vice president for the company’s Denver region.The Denver region is comprised of...
Apr 10 2012 // XL Group plc’s Excess Casualty’s North American Umbrella team has launched a new umbrella policy form. The enhanced “A/B Umbrella” form offers two insuring agreements in one policy. Insuring...
Apr 10 2012 // Goldsboro, North Carolina-based Atlantic Casualty Insurance Co. has added two executives. Jeanne Rondeau has joined the Atlantic Casualty team as regional vice president of the western region. Rondeau was most recently...
Apr 3 2012 // Eight out of 160 years of history may not seem like a big deal but for Hanover Insurance Group, founded in 1852, the last eight years have seen a series of big deals.Eight years ago in 2004, the $2.4 billion heavily...
Mar 19 2012 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center, a retail property, casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage, named Hilton Brown to oversee client claims and advocacy in the company’s California offices in Los Angeles...
Mar 12 2012 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. named Martin V. Flannery vice president in the property/casualty group in its Woodland Hills office. Prior to joining Poms & Associates,...
Mar 5 2012 // St. Louis, Mo.-based Safety National Casualty Corp., an excess workers’ compensation provider and a writer of multi-line large casualty business, announced that Matthew Hartmann has joined the company as regional...
Feb 20 2012 // North Carolina-based BB&T Corp. is buying the property/casualty and life insurance units of Roseland, N.J.- based insurance wholesaler Crump Group.BB&T said it will pay $570 million in cash for Crump...
Feb 15 2012 // St. Louis, Mo.-based Safety National Casualty Corp., an excess workers’ compensation provider and a writer of multi-line large casualty business, announced that Matthew Hartmann has joined the company as regional...
Feb 10 2012 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. has named Robert Mahl senior vice president of its property/casualty group in the firm’s Woodland Hills office. Mahl was previously vice...
Feb 7 2012 // Argo Group International Holdings announced that Valerie Baucher has joined Argo Assurances, the Argo Group’s Paris-based underwriting platform for large specialty risks. She will lead a financial lines and casualty...
Feb 6 2012 // Ironshore Inc. has announced that its Specialty Casualty unit will provide casualty coverages for Cochrane and Company’s new Ammunition and Rifle Manufacturing Specialist Program.Additional coverage enhancements will...
Feb 6 2012 // Centennial, Colo.-based Colorado Casualty has named Lucas J. Bills as president and chief executive officer of the commercial lines company, which operates in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.Bills...
Feb 3 2012 // North Carolina-based BB&T Corp. is buying the property/casualty and life insurance units of Roseland, N.J.- based insurance wholesaler Crump Group.Under the terms of the agreement, BB&T said it will pay $570...
Jan 30 2012 // A.M. Best has downgraded the financial ratings of Peachtree Casualty Insurance Co., citing the insurer’s poor underwriting results due in part to rising costs associated with Florida’s troubled no-fault...
Jan 25 2012 // Centennial, Colo.–based Colorado Casualty has named Lucas J. Bills as president and chief executive officer of the commercial lines company, which operates in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and...
Jan 25 2012 // January 1 renewal rates for U.S. property/casualty reinsurance premiums showed firming with changes from -5 percent to +5 percent on an overall basis, with loss-affected property catastrophe business up considerably...
Jan 23 2012 // Woodbury, N.Y.-based Sterling & Sterling appointed Leslie Nylund as president of the insurance brokerage. Nylund will be responsible for the firm’s operations, including sales, employee benefits, client services...
Jan 23 2012 // Amid the continued difficult economic conditions, a heightened frequency of catastrophic events in 2011 has resulted in nearly $40 billion of losses to insurers. The losses associated with these catastrophes have been...
Jan 20 2012 // Starr Companies has appointed Shane McCaffrey as profit center manager in charge of Defense Base Act and foreign casualty insurance for U.S.-based multinationals.Starr Companies said Defense Base Act and foreign casualty...