All the headlines from our Excess Surplus Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 29 2003 // Bermuda’s Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. reported net income of $91 million, or $1.34 diluted earnings per share, for the three months to September 30, 2003.The company’s net income for the first nine months of...
Oct 29 2003 // Virginia-based Markel Corporation confirmed the estimates it gave on Oct. 22 that it would suffer a third quarter loss (see IJ Web site Oct. 23). It reported a net loss of $1.68 per diluted share for the quarter ended...
Oct 28 2003 // AIG Private Client Group, a division of the property and casualty subsidiaries of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), has expanded its Excess Flood Program to 17 additional states across the country, bringing the...
Oct 28 2003 // Bermuda’s RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. announced the appointment of Robert J. Lamendola as Senior Vice President to lead the continued development of its surety reinsurance business, and James R. Lewis as Vice...
Oct 27 2003 // Speaking to the New York Risk Insurance Management Society on Friday, Lloyd’s Chairman, Lord Peter Levene, stressed the role insurance plays in business, calling it “the oil in the engine of the economy,...
Oct 24 2003 // Two major property/casualty trade associations have expressed serious concerns about a large surplus in the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) proposed 2004 budget.For the three-year period...
Oct 22 2003 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) of Goshawk Reinsurance Limited (Goshawk Re), Bermuda, and removed the rating from under review.This follows detailed discussions with the Goshawk...
Oct 20 2003 // Richard Bouhan, executive director of NAPSLO, and California Insurance lobbyist Dietmar Grellman of Norwood & Associates stressed the need for vigilance and activism at a breakfast sponsored by the California...
Oct 20 2003 // The property/casualty insurance industry reported a statutory rate of return of 9.7 percent in the first half of 2003, up from a disappointing 1.0 percent in 2002 and the worst-ever negative 2.4 percent recorded in 2001....
Oct 20 2003 // The property/casualty insurance industry reported a statutory rate of return of 9.7 percent in the first half of 2003, up from a disappointing 1.0 percent in 2002 and the worst-ever negative 2.4 percent recorded in 2001....
Oct 17 2003 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisitions of CAL E&S Brokers, Inc. of Bay Shore, N.Y. and CAL E&S Brokers of New Jersey, Inc. of Morristown, N.J. Both companies were established in 2000. The CAL...
Oct 16 2003 // The European Commission, the European Union’s regulatory authority, has dropped an investigation of the British government’s rules concerning the Lloyd’s market. The EC began the probe in response to...
Oct 15 2003 // ACE INA UK Limited, a London-based operation of the ACE Group of Companies, is now eligible to offer insurance on an Excess & Surplus lines (E&S) basis in more than 30 U.S. states, including New York and...
Oct 13 2003 // Ted Pierce, executive director of the Surplus Line Association of California (SLA) released the association’s nine month total for processed surplus line premium showing an 82 percent increase over the 2002 premium...
Oct 13 2003 // Lloyd’s announced the appointment of Iain Saville as the three hundred year old insurance market’s first Head of Business Process Reform, charged with modernizing and improving business processes across the...
Oct 10 2003 // Newark, Calif.-based RMS, a provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe risk, has expanded its commitment to the Lloyd’s market with the addition of three Lloyd’s managing agents as new...
Oct 7 2003 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating of The Atlantic Mutual Companies (The Atlantic) (New York) to B++ (Very Good) from A- (Excellent).Concurrently, A.M. Best has downgraded the debt rating of...
Oct 6 2003 // The industry “needs leaders that will actually lead,” said outgoing president Andy Homer as he closed the 102nd Insurance and Financial Services Conference of the U.K.’s Chartered Insurance Institute...
Oct 6 2003 // Moody’s downgraded the performance rating of Lloyd’s syndicate 102—Goshawk Syndicate Management Limited—to “C+” (below average) from “B+” (above average) and kept it on review for...
Oct 6 2003 // The NAPSLO Annual Convention took place Sept. 10-14 in San Diego at the San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina. For more Insurance Journal interviews and special video coverage of the NAPSLO Convention, including an...