Latest Excess Surplus Headlines

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U.S. Surplus Lines Industry Grew Premium 17.5% in 2020

Oct 4 2021 // The U.S. surplus lines market experienced direct premium growth of 17.5% in 2020, the largest year-over-year premium increase since 2003, according to an AM Best report.The 2020 increase in direct premium written comes on...

AXA XL Insurance and NIP Group Announce Strategic Partnership and Launching of a New Monoline Commercial Excess Liability Program

Sep 28 2021 // Program provides additional protection over scheduled coveragesWoodbridge, N.J., September 28, 2021 – NIP Group (www.NIPGroup.com), a market leader in insurance program administration, is proud to announce the addition...

Volante Receives ‘In-Principle’ Nod From Lloyd’s to Launch Asta-Managed Syndicate

Sep 23 2021 // Volante Capital Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd., the international multi-class managing general agency platform, has received “in-principle” approval from Lloyd’s to launch Syndicate 1699 for the 2022 year of...

People Moves: Promotions at IAT Insurance Group, RT Specialty

Sep 23 2021 // IAT Insurance Group, a provider of specialty property/casualty and surety products, promoted Coy Rudd to lead the insurer’s excess and surplus business unit as executive vice president.IAT’s E&S unit...

People Moves: Acrisure Re Appoints 4; Amwins Global Risks Hires Beazley’s Hensman, Davies From Lloyd’s; Favre Joins SiriusPoint for Credit, Bond & Political Risk

Sep 20 2021 // This edition of International People Moves covers appointments at Acrisure Re, Amwins Global Risks and SiriusPoint.A summary of these new hires follows here. Reinsurance Broker Acrisure Re Augments Corporate Advisory and...

People Moves: AXA XL Names Clark as Marine Liabilities Global Practice Leader; Hamilton Hires Ironshore’s Marzec as Head of Management Liability for E&S

Sep 20 2021 // AXA XL Names Clark as Marine Liabilities Global Practice LeaderAXA XL’s Global Marine insurance business has appointed Stephen Clark as its Marine Liabilities Global Practice leader. Based in Chicago, Clark assumes...

Cover Whale Partners With E&S Insurer Everspan to Offer Commercial Trucking

Sep 20 2021 // Cover Whale Insurance Solutions Inc., a Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.-based insurtech, is partnering with excess and surplus lines insurer Everspan Indemnity Insurance Co., to offer a commercial trucking insurance...

Lloyd’s Urges Insurance Workforce With Ethnic Minorities as One-Third of New Hires

Sep 17 2021 // Lloyd’s of London wants the commercial insurance market to recruit a third of its workforce from ethnic minorities, it said on Friday, as it attempts to improve diversity.Nearly 50,000 staff are employed in...

Demand Outpacing Supply in One of Best E&S Markets in 50 Years, Industry Veteran Says

Sep 17 2021 // The chair of W.R. Berkley Corp. has been observing conditions in the excess and surplus and specialty markets for more than five decades and views the current environment as just about the best in that time span.According...

U.S. Surplus Lines Industry Grew Premium 17.5% in 2020

Sep 16 2021 // The U.S. surplus lines market experienced direct premium growth of 17.5% in 2020, the largest year-over-year premium increase since 2003, according to an AM Best report.The 2020 increase in direct premium written comes on...

E&S Insurer Ategrity Raises $75M, Plans Further Expansion

Sep 16 2021 // Ategrity Specialty Insurance Co. sad it has completed a $75 million capital raise led by Sequentis Financial LLC to support its continued growth.Ategrity is a Scottsdale, Arizona-based specialty property/casualty insurance...

Dale Partners Receives ‘In-Principle’ Approval to Launch Lloyd’s Managing Agency

Sep 16 2021 // Dale Partners Ltd., the London-based holding company of Dale Underwriting Partners (DUP), has been granted “in-principle” approval by Lloyd’s to form its own managing agency. The new entity, Dale Managing...

$767.1M in Texas Surplus Lines Premiums Recorded in August

Sep 9 2021 // Surplus lines premium recorded in Texas during August totaled $767.1 million, bringing the year to date total to $6.18 billion, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX).This results in a 6.9% (or $49...

Lloyd’s Reports H1 2021 Profit of £1.4B ($1.9B), with 92.2% Combined Ratio

Sep 9 2021 // Lloyd’s of London reported pre-tax profit of £1.4 billion (US$1.9 billion) for the first half of 2021, compared to a £400 million (US$550.8 million) loss during H1 2020.The market’s profit was driven by a...

People Moves: RT Specialty’s Bernardo, Cross Insurance’s Jermyn Promoted

Sep 8 2021 // Gina Bernardo has been promoted to account manager within the environmental and construction professional (ECP) practice of RT Specialty. She is based in RT ECP’s Hamilton, New Jersey, offices.Since joining the team...

Ryan Specialty Underwriting Managers CEO Clark Departs for Personal Reasons

Sep 8 2021 // Ryan Specialty Group announced that Tom Clark, chief executive officer of RSG Underwriting Managers, Ryan Specialty’s underwriting management specialty, will resign from his position effective September 30, 2021,...

Risk Strategies Acquires Georgia-based Employee Benefits Specialty Broker Benevestco

Aug 31 2021 // National specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm Risk Strategies announced it has acquired the assets of employee benefits specialty broker Benevestco, Inc., a Resource Sevens company. Terms of the deal were...

People Moves: Aon Reinsurance Appoints 6; TigerRisk Hires Edwards from Lloyd’s; Nexus Names Tan Head of Treaty; Riveros to AXIS Re for Credit & Surety

Aug 23 2021 // This edition of International People Moves details reinsurance-related appointments at two brokers: Aon Reinsurance Solutions and TigerRisk as well as MGA Nexus and AXIS Re.A summary of these new hires follows here. Aon...

Mosaic and DXC Technology Launch Technology Platform for Specialty Insurance

Aug 20 2021 // Mosaic Insurance and DXC Technology announced the launch of an insurance technology platform that increases the speed at which specialty insurance is sold, underwritten and serviced.Together with DXC’s...

People Moves: Africa Specialty Risks Names Bheenick as Mauritius Managing Director; WTW’s Whyte Joins Miller for APAC Expansion

Aug 18 2021 // Africa Specialty Risks Names Bheenick Managing Director in MauritiusAfrica Specialty Risks (ASR), the pan-African focused reinsurance group, has appointed Krishna Bheenick as its managing director in Mauritius. The company...