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Colorado Casualty Expands Small Commercial Appetite

Mar 3 2011 // Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. regional company, has expanded its small commercial appetite with the addition of more than 60 business classes to its Commercial Protector (BOP) product.The majority of the...

Ohio Casualty Targets Small Commercial Growth

Mar 3 2011 // Ohio Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. regional company, announced the expansion of its small commercial appetite with the addition of more than 60 business classes to its Commercial Protector BOP product.The...

Best Affirms CNA and Subs Ratings

Mar 3 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a” of CNA Insurance Companies and its P/C members, as well as the ICR of...

Carolina Casualty Extends Trucking Binding Authority of All Risks, Ltd.

Mar 2 2011 // Carolina Casualty Insurance Co. has extended All Risks, Ltd.’s binding authority nationwide, effective March 1, 2011. All Risks, Ltd. has the authority to write trucking risks nationwide with a fleet size of eleven...

Midwest Employers Casualty Creates Healthcare Risk Management Practice

Mar 1 2011 // St. Louis, Mo.-based workers’ compensation excess insurer, Midwest Employers Casualty Co. (MECC), announced it has launched a Healthcare Risk Management Practice.MECC said it created the Healthcare Risk Management...

Chang Named Starr Casualty, Greater China Underwriting Manager

Mar 1 2011 // Hong Kong-based Starr International Company, Inc. has announced the appointment of Irene Chang as Underwriting Manager of Starr Casualty for Greater China.She will lead the effort in developing and promoting all Casualty...

Chartis 4Q Loss Tied to Reserve Strengthening

Feb 25 2011 // American International Group Inc. reported net income of $11.2 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2010, and $7.8 billion for the full year 2010.Included in the 2010 fourth quarter results is a previously announced $4.2...

Capitol Insurance Companies Promote Three

Feb 24 2011 // Middleton, Wis.-based Capitol Insurance Companies has announced three promotions. Kevin A. Klestinski has been named vice president of property and casualty underwriting, Richard F. Boettner has been promoted to director...

Wisconsin’s Capitol Insurance Promotes 3

Feb 24 2011 // Capitol Insurance Cos. of Middleton, Wis., announced that Kevin A. Klestinski has been named vice president of Property & Casualty Underwriting, Richard F. Boettner has been promoted to director of Underwriting –...

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Feb 10 2011 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group’s Property and Inland Marine Division has promoted two insurance executives: Grace Thomas and Cecil Wilson.Thomas was promoted to divisional senior vice...

People

Feb 7 2011 // Great American Insurance Group, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, announced that Michael G. “Mike” Liguzinski will succeed John W. Sullivan as divisional president, Specialty Human Services Division, upon...

Colorado Casualty Names Hickert Underwriting VP

Feb 4 2011 // Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. regional company, announced that Brenda K. Hickert has been named vice president, Underwriting. With more than 20 years of industry experience in positions of increasing...

Ryan Specialty Forms MGU to Offer Excess Casualty Coverage for Public Entities

Feb 1 2011 // Ryan Specialty Group, LLC (RSG) has launched CivicRisk (CRU), a managing general underwriter specializing in excess casualty coverage for public entities which includes, but is not limited to, cities, counties, school...

Atlantic Casualty Names New Vice President of Claims

Jan 27 2011 // The Atlantic Casualty Insurance Co., a member of the Strickland Insurance Group, has tapped Lawrence F. (Larry) McAuliffe to serve as the North Carolina-based company’s new vice president of claims. McAuliffe...

Florida Competitive in Workers’ Compensation Market Arena

Jan 24 2011 // Florida’s workers’ compensation market remains competitive with more than 250 private insurers writing coverage and only a fraction of business being funneled to the residual market.Also, availability does not...

J.M. Wilson Hires Lombardo as Property/Casualty Underwriter

Jan 20 2011 // Managing general agency J.M. Wilson has added Katie Lombardo as a property/casualty underwriter in its Arlington Heights, Ill., office.Lombardo will review, quote, bind and service commercial P/C accounts for the...

Liberty Mutual Continues Fight with AIG As Other Insurers Settle

Jan 10 2011 // American International Group has negotiated a $450 million settlement with seven of its competitors in the protracted litigation over its questionable reporting of workers’ compensation premiums.But the long-running...

Florida Workers’ Compensation Market Remains Competitive: Report

Jan 5 2011 // Florida’s workers’ compensation market remains competitive with more than 250 private insurers writing coverage and only a fraction of business being funneled to the residual market.Also, availability does not...

Ullico Casualty Increases Fiduciary Liability Limits

Dec 21 2010 // Ullico Casualty Group Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ullico Inc., has increased its fiduciary liability insurance limits from $15 million to $25 million, effective immediately. Limits are available on a primary or...

Winters Promoted to Head of Casualty for Global Corporate at Zurich

Dec 14 2010 // Zurich has promoted Brian Winters to head of Casualty for its Global Corporate in North America (GCiNA) business. Winters was previously head of Casualty for GCiNA’s Northeast Region. In his new role, he will be...