Latest Excess Surplus Headlines

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Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Majority Stake in Turkish Specialty Broker

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...

Blenheim Underwriting Launches Lloyd’s Managing Agency

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...

Texas Surplus Lines Premium Total for July 2021: $836.1M

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%...

Lloyd’s Selects 11 Start-Ups for Innovation Lab Accelerator

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...

Africa Specialty Risks Launches Reinsurer in Bermuda

Aug 6 2021 // Africa Specialty Risks (ASR), the pan-African focused reinsurance group, announced it has launched a licensed reinsurer in Bermuda.The group will offer a full suite of products from its Bermudan reinsurer, including...

Investors Complete Acquisition of Specialty Insurer ProSight Under Plan to Go Private

Aug 4 2021 // Investment management firm TowerBrook Capital Partners and private equity firm Further Global Capital Management said they have completed the acquisition of ProSight Global, Inc., a New Jersey-based domestic specialty...

Houston’s CrossCover Enters E&S Property Insurance Market

Aug 3 2021 // Houston-based CrossCover Insurance Services, a new managing general underwriter targeting middle-market commercial business, is entering the excess and surplus property market.CrossCover was established in partnership with...

People Moves: Hartford Names Burns to Lead Marketing/Comms; Beazley Promotes Beerli for Specialty Risks, U.S. Programs; Purtill Is CRO at AIG

Aug 3 2021 // Hartford Names Burns as Head of Marketing and Comms, Succeeding BromageThe Hartford has appointed Claire Burns chief marketing and communications officer, effective Sept. 1. Burns will report directly to Chairman and CEO...

Texas Surplus Lines Premiums Rise to $947.48M, an All-Time High

Aug 2 2021 // Texas set another record in June for the amount of surplus lines premium recorded by the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX).The $947.48 million in premium reported in June brings the year-to-date total to $4.58...

People Moves: Monarch E&S Hires Currier; Howden Specialty Names Two Executive Directors for Financial Lines Division

Jul 29 2021 // Monarch E&SMonarch E&S Insurance Services has named Heather Currier operations manager. Currier will be based out of Monarch’s Florida branch with responsibilities covering the company’s national...

Lloyd’s Plans Insurance for Electric Vehicles, Hydrogen Fuel, in Climate Change Fight

Jul 29 2021 // Lloyd’s of London plans to develop insurance products for electric vehicles and hydrogen as part of its efforts to fight climate change, the specialist insurance market said on Thursday.Lloyd’s published a...

Hendricks, President of Texas’ Specialty Insurance Managers, to Retire

Jul 28 2021 // Sherri Hendricks, a Texas insurance professional with an extensive career in the industry and current president of Austin-based Specialty Insurance Managers, is retiring.In 1980, Hendricks began her career in insurance in...

Lloyd’s Council Appoints Guy Carpenter’s Carter as 1st Female Deputy Chair

Jul 23 2021 // Lloyd’s announced the appointment of Vicky Carter as deputy chair of Lloyd’s, effective Sept. 1, 2021.Carter has been an elected member of Lloyd’s Council since February 2019 and has worked in the...

Ohio’s Westfield Launches Specialty Insurance Business

Jul 21 2021 // Westfield, a Westfield Center, Ohio-based super-regional property/casualty insurance company with a 173-year history, is entering the specialty insurance business with the launch of Westfield Specialty.Westfield appointed...

Medical & Commercial International Gets ‘In-Principle’ Nod to Form Lloyd’s Syndicate

Jul 21 2021 // edical & Commercial International (MCI), the specialist managing general agency, has received “in-principle” approval from Lloyd’s for Syndicate 1902 to underwrite business incepting on or after Jan....

Texas’ Incline P&C Group Partners with CRC’s 5Star Specialty Programs

Jul 20 2021 // Austin, Texas-based Incline P&C Group, through its Incline Casualty Co., is partnering with CRC Group’s 5Star Specialty Programs on transportation risks.Incline P&C Group is an insurance program market...

Africa Specialty Risks Secures $10M of PVT Capacity from Atrium at Lloyd’s

Jul 20 2021 // Africa Specialty Risks (ASR), the pan-African focused reinsurance managing general agent, announced it has secured an additional $10 million in capacity for its Political Violence and Terrorism (PVT) division from...

People Moves: Miller’s Higgins Joins New Broker Inver Re; Hartford Hires AXA XL’s Brodzinski for Global Specialty; Bayman to MS Amlin for Aviation Reinsurance

Jul 20 2021 // This edition of International People Moves covers appointments at a new reinsurance broker, Ardonagh’s Inver Re; The Hartford’s Global Specialty business unit, and the aviation reinsurance division of MS Amlin...

Surplus Lines Insurers Report 21.9% Premium Hike in First Half of 2021

Jul 20 2021 // Surplus lines premium exceeded $24 billion and premium bearing transactions exceeded 2.6 million through the first six months of 2021, according to the 2021 Midyear Report of the U.S. Surplus Lines Service and Stamping...

Apollo Gets ‘In-Principle’ Approval from Lloyd’s to Create Standalone Syndicate 1971

Jul 15 2021 // Apollo Syndicate Management, the London-based independent specialist insurer and reinsurer, announced it has been granted in-principle approval from the Council of Lloyd’s to convert Special Purpose Arrangement (SPA)...