All the headlines from our Excess Surplus Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 7 2011 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) posted its Quarterly Listing of Alien Insurers, available for reference and download.The listing, also mentioned in the Nonadmitted Insurance title of the...
Nov 7 2011 // XL Group’s North America property/casualty insurance group appointed Lorraine Seib as president of its excess casualty team.Based in New York, Seib will manage XL’s global excess casualty business with...
Nov 7 2011 // Aspen Insurance Holdings appointed Mario Vitale as New York-based co-CEO of Aspen Insurance, effective beginning of 2012. He will work jointly with Rupert Villers, co-CEO of Aspen Insurance, in developing the...
Nov 7 2011 // Florida insurance broker Kuykendall Gardner has tapped Nicholas Carbone to serve as a vice president of transactional risk. In this role, he will assess, mitigate and transfer risk through insurance and other business...
Nov 7 2011 // Westfield Insurance, headquartered in Westfield, Ohio, selected Dennis Baus to lead the company’s surety operations. Baus assumes the national surety leader responsibilities on Jan. 1, 2012, replacing Rick Kinnaird...
Nov 7 2011 // Pollution“It’s not like we have the luxury to move out of there. The pollution is still there.” —Carla Hernandez, whose 4-year-old daughter is being treated at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles...
Nov 7 2011 // Thomas Alva Edison would have been glowing had he been at the “Technology Issues in the U.S. & U.K.” panel discussion at the annual National Association of Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) conference in San...
Nov 4 2011 // An article on the Lloyd’s website takes a look at the “insurance and reinsurance specialists,” who “converge in Baden-Baden to begin their ‘renewal season’ discussions in earnest and in...
Nov 3 2011 // David J. Gorin has been named president of Network E&S Insurance Brokers LLC, a Simi Valley, Calif.- based managing general underwriter and wholesaler. Gorin’s immediate responsibility will be to establish and to...
Oct 26 2011 // Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings has announced a number of strategic initiatives, which it said are “designed to realign the Company’s strategy and core capabilities.” Flagstone said it “intends to...
Oct 25 2011 // Chartis has expanded the industry classes addressed by NextGen Protection, a suite of environmental insurance solutions offered through its environmental division. The latest product in the NextGen Protection suite is CPL...
Oct 25 2011 // Workers’ compensation rates decreased an average of 1.1 percent and a median of 1.5 percent at renewal during the third quarter, according to Marsh. The New York-headquartered brokerage firm released the data on Oct....
Oct 20 2011 // Hank Haldeman, executive vice president of The Sullivan Group and co-chair of the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) legislative committee, was presented the Charles A. McAlear/NAPSLO...
Oct 20 2011 // Insurance entrepreneur Mark Byrne pulled ahead in the race to buy Lloyd’s of London insurer Omega after Omega and its top shareholder backed his offer, prompting his main rival to withdraw.Omega, at the centre of a...
Oct 18 2011 // R-T Specialty, the wholesale brokerage unit of Ryan Specialty Group, appointed industry veteran Mark Smith as president and managing director for the firm’s New York operation. Smith is a well-known industry...
Oct 18 2011 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a+” of Lloyd’s Syndicate 2010, which is managed by...
Oct 17 2011 // The merger of insurer Nationwide Mutual with regional carrier Harleysville Mutual is all about growth, not only for the companies but also for their independent agents, according to the CEOs of the two...
Oct 13 2011 // Thomas Alva Edison would have been glowing had he been at the “Technology Issues in the U.S. & U.K.” panel discussion at the annual National Association of Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) conference in San...
Oct 11 2011 // Four industry leaders attempted to tackle explaining the definition of “leadership” and what it takes to be a leader, while addressing perpetuation concerns during the “Next Generation Panel Discussion:...
Oct 7 2011 // Atlantic Specialty Lines Inc. (ASL) announced it has acquired Financial Guarantee Underwriters Inc. and American Tri-State Underwriters Inc.Financial Guarantee Underwriters has been servicing the surplus insurance needs of...