All the headlines from our Excess Surplus Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 25 2015 // Chedid Europe Reinsurance Brokerage Limited, headquartered in Dubai, UAE, has announced its registration as a Lloyd’s broker.Chedid Re, which is a subsidiary of the Lebanese group Chedid Capital Holding, said this...
Jun 24 2015 // Lloyd’s of London has stopped insuring marijuana industry firms of any kind due to conflicts between federal and state laws over their legality.In a May 29 memo addressed “Dear Colleague,” obtained by...
Jun 22 2015 // Aon Benfield Analytics’ Market Analysis team has released its latest Lloyd’s Update report, which assesses the market’s 2014 financial performance and latest developments.Key findings in the report...
Jun 18 2015 // JLT Specialty Insurance Services Inc. (JLT Specialty USA), and Keeper Security, Inc., a password manager and digital vault, have formed a partnership designed to offer clients a tool to protect confidential and private...
Jun 16 2015 // RSA, one of the largest UK commercial insurers, has appointed David Wyatt to the newly created role of development director within its Global Specialty Lines (GSL) business.Reporting to Nick Donovan, head of Sales and...
Jun 16 2015 // Lloyd’s has published the results of a study that examines the “vulnerability of the overstretched global food system to sudden shocks, and the wide repercussions for communities, businesses and...
Jun 15 2015 // Geoff White, underwriting manager for Cyber, Technology and Media at Barbican Insurance Group, has been elected chairman of the Lloyd’s Market Association’s (LMA) newly created Cyber Business Panel.White was...
Jun 15 2015 // JLT Specialty Insurance Services Inc. has appointed Hans H. van Heukelum as chief commercial officer. Van Heukelum will lead the broker’s U.S. strategy and expansion with respect to clients, prospects, markets and...
Jun 10 2015 // Ironshore Inc. has named Kevin Whitehead as executive vice president and chief underwriting officer of the Specialty Casualty unit. He will be responsible for setting underwriting guidelines and strategies for existing and...
Jun 10 2015 // MarketScout, the national electronic insurance exchange and specialty MGA, has expanded its specialty high net worth underwriting practice with the addition of a new non-admitted $3.1 billion facility targeting agents with...
Jun 8 2015 // Specialist Lloyd’s underwriter Marketform has announced the promotion of Ian West to Head of Financial and Professional Lines. He will also continue as the Class Underwriter for Financial Lines, reporting to Chief...
Jun 8 2015 // Xuber, Xchanging’s insurance software business, announced that it has been appointed by P/C reinsurer Ariel Re to provide “the Xuber ‘for Reinsurers solution suite’ for the company’s...
Jun 5 2015 // ProSight Specialty Insurance has launched a new insurance offering for drone operators. The proprietary program was developed from the company’s experience in insuring drone use in the film and live media industries...
Jun 5 2015 // Specialty Insurance Group (SIG), based in Indianapolis, has appointed Marla Peters as director of Underwriting. In addition to her director responsibilities, Peters will act as a production underwriter in the recreational...
Jun 4 2015 // Ascot Underwriting Ltd., the London-based Lloyd’s managing agency, has appointed Scott Beall as chief underwriting officer of casualty facultative and Lex Smart as senior vice president of Ascot Fac. The team will...
Jun 2 2015 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has added Michael Kwan to its North American leadership team based in Santa Ana, California. Kwan joins the Casualty North America leadership team as senior vice president and head of Excess...
May 29 2015 // ACE Commercial Risk Services, the small commercial specialty lines business of ACE Group, has expanded its specialty commercial products for small businesses, available on a business owners policy (BOP).This new product...
May 29 2015 // Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to renegotiate Britain’s ties with Europe and then give voters a referendum on European Union membership by the end of 2017. Following are the views of business...
May 28 2015 // Lloyd’s has appointed Louis Cassar Pullicino as the new representative for Lloyd’s in Malta, assuming the role of director of Lloyd’s Malta Limited.Pullicino replaces Mark Gollcher, who helped...
May 28 2015 // Dallas, TX, May 28, 2015 – Following 3 years of exceptional results in personal lines, Texas All Risk General Agency, Inc. is again expanding it’s homeowners/dwelling fire aggregate in the Greater Houston...