All the headlines from our Excess Surplus Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 9 2023 // Lloyd’s reported an interim full-year 2022 loss before tax of £800 million ($947.6 million) as a result of investment losses of approximately £3 billion ($3.6 billion).This compares to a profit of £2.3 billion...
Mar 6 2023 // United Insurance Holdings Corp. Corp. said it will move on to focus on specialty commercial lines business following news last month that its subsidiary United P&C Insurance Company (UPC) being was placed in...
Mar 1 2023 // Canopius Group, the global specialty re/insurer, announced the opening of a new trading office in Melbourne, Australia. The operation will be led by David Mutton, who joins Canopius as casualty underwriter, APAC with...
Feb 24 2023 // Consilium, the global speciality re/insurance broking business of the Aventum Group, announced the launch of a new Specialty Treaty Reinsurance division.The new treaty division will complement Consilium’s existing...
Feb 20 2023 // A generation has passed since the last hard market and a substantial proportion of the people employed in agencies today have never experienced one. This means they have never dealt with surplus lines in such large volumes...
Feb 17 2023 // AmeriTrust subsidiary Star Insurance Co. must pay the $9 million balance of a $10 million settlement in the death of a 12-year old boy who died after a trench he dug on a Long Branch, New Jersey beach collapsed on him.Star...
Feb 17 2023 // RiverStone International, the largest provider of legacy solutions in the Lloyd’s market, announced it has secured an innovative multi-year excess-of-loss corporate member reinsurance cover.The reinsurance has been...
Feb 15 2023 // RiverStone International, a leading acquirer and reinsurer of legacy and discontinued insurance business, has completed an agreement with MS Amlin Underwriting Ltd. to provide MS Amlin Syndicate 2001 with a...
Feb 15 2023 // Caribbean Risk Group LLC. (CRG), the U.S. Virgin Islands-based insurance agency, announced the launch of its London operations, CRG International Ltd. The brokerage in London will act as an appointed representative of...
Feb 13 2023 // Nationwide E&S/Specialty is not entitled to be reimbursed by Mt. Hawley Insurance and Lloyd’s for part of a $2.725 million payment it contributed as the excess/surplus insurer to settle a personal injury suit.A...
Feb 9 2023 // Specialty MGA UK, a recently formed managing general agent focused on providing additional capacity for specialty lines of businesses, has acquired the ForestRe team from Globe Underwriting, the UK-based MGA.Financial...
Feb 9 2023 // Ryan Specialty announced the formation of a global transactional risk practice, Ryan Transactional Risk. This global managing general underwriting practice is being created by combining the operations of Concord Specialty...
Feb 9 2023 // Lloyd’s of London announced that Andrew Brooks has been appointed as deputy chair of the Council of Lloyd’s.Brooks recently stepped down as chief executive officer of Ascot Underwriting Ltd. – a position he...
Feb 6 2023 // Connecticut Insurance Department Names Callanan as General CounselConnecticut Insurance Commissioner Andrew N. Mais has named Jane Callanan, of Wallingford, his department’s new general counsel. Before taking on this...
Feb 3 2023 // Westfield has completed the acquisition of Lloyd’s of London Syndicate 1200 from Argo Group International Holdings Ltd. for about $125 million.The deal was first announced in September 2022. Westfield said this...
Feb 2 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS); Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI), and HDI Global Specialty.A summary of these new hires...
Feb 1 2023 // Danish Insurer Tryg Names Brammer as CEO, Succeeding HübbeThe Supervisory Boards of Tryg A/S and Tryg Forsikring A/S announced that Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Morten Hübbe has decided to step down. Hübbe (51)...
Feb 1 2023 // Lloyd’s of London will hand some staff an extra £1,500 ($1,850) to cover rising living costs as inflation persists into 2023.The insurance exchange told staff Tuesday that those earning less than £75,000 would...
Jan 30 2023 // A new excess layer cyber facility, called CyXS, was launched by WTW, providing excess layer cyber capacity for global clients. Key elements of the facility include: Capacity: Access to up to 50 million (USD/ GBP/ EUR) of...
Jan 11 2023 // New Jersey-headquartered Specialty Program Group LLC (SPG) has acquired the assets of Euclid Specialty Managers, LLC, which does business as Euclid Fiduciary, from Euclid Insurance Services, Inc.Euclid Fiduciary, based in...