All the headlines from our Excess Surplus Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Aug 12 2021 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., the Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based broker, announced it has purchased a majority stake in Turkish specialty broker Brokers’ House (BH Sigorta ve Reasürans Brokerligi A.S.).Terms of the...
Aug 10 2021 // Blenheim Underwriting Ltd. announced it has received final approval and the necessary permissions from UK regulators and Lloyd’s to act as a managing agency for Syndicate 5886.The effective date of transfer of...
Aug 9 2021 // Texas surplus lines premium for July 2021 reached $836.1 million, the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) reported.The number brings the year-to-date total up to $5.42 billion as of the end of July, a 16.1%...
Aug 9 2021 // Flood loss estimates, secure private messaging, money laundering detection and severe weather parametrics are the objectives of a few in a group of startups chosen by Lloyd’s of London for its latest Lloyd’s...