Latest Excess Surplus Headlines

All the headlines from our Excess Surplus Topic Page, ordered by recency.

California Export List Hearing for Surplus Lines Slated for November

Oct 21 2019 // Parametric earthquake coverage and terrorism coverage are among the potential items on the 2019 Export List hearing being held next month by the California Department of Insurance.Adding a risk or coverage to the export...

Guy Carpenter Names Samengo-Turner as Global Facultative Leader

Oct 18 2019 // Guy Carpenter & Co., a reinsurance broker and subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Cos., announced the appointment of Dominic Samengo-Turner as global facultative leader. At the same time, insurance broker Marsh has...

London-Based MGA Castel Specialty Enters Construction and Engineering Market

Oct 17 2019 // Castel Specialty, the London-based division of club-style MGA formation platform Castel Underwriting Agencies Ltd., has entered the construction and engineering market, primarily focused on the UK, North America,...

Higher Than Usual Number of Items Could be Added at California Surplus Export List Hearing

Oct 16 2019 // Getting items on California’s surplus lines export list is no easy task.Just ask Ben McKay, executive director of the Surplus Line Association of California. McKay can recall only a few coverages that have been added...

Ryan Specialty Group Acquires Assets, Operations of Pennsylvania’s The Suitelife

Oct 16 2019 // Ryan Specialty Group LLC has acquired the assets and operations of The Suitelife, a program manager specializing in boutique hotels, premier and full service hotels, hotel management companies, condo hotels and resorts...

Blockchain Initiative, B3i, Deploys Cat Excess of Loss Product for January Renewals

Oct 15 2019 // B3i announced it has released the latest version of its property catastrophe excess of loss (XoL) reinsurance application in time for the January 2020 renewals.The product enables customers and their counterparties to...

California Export List Hearing for Surplus Lines Slated for November

Oct 11 2019 // Parametric earthquake coverage and terrorism coverage are among the potential items on the 2019 Export List hearing being held next month by the California Department of Insurance.Adding a risk or coverage to the export...

State Finds Florida Specialty Insurance Insolvent; 90K Homeowners Lose Coverage

Oct 7 2019 // Florida personal lines insurer Florida Specialty Insurance Co. (FSIC) has been ordered into receivership and will be liquidated after state regulators determined the company is insolvent and unable to establish a viable...

Surplus Lines Premium Grows in Response to Weak Results; Top 15 E&S Writers: Fitch

Oct 7 2019 // Direct written premiums in the U.S. excess and surplus (E&S) lines market during 2018 grew at its greatest rate since 2012, increasing 11% and representing the eighth consecutive year of premium growth, according to...

Texas Surplus Lines Premium Up 16% Over 2018

Oct 3 2019 // Reported Texas surplus lines premium through the first three quarters of 2019 reached $5.35 billion, a 16.15% increase over the same period in 2018, according to the Surplus Line Stamping Office of Texas...

New Specialty Re/Insurer Convex Authorized to Write Excess and Surplus Lines in U.S.

Oct 3 2019 // Convex Group, the Bermuda-based international specialty insurer and reinsurer, announces that its UK insurance subsidiary, Convex Insurance UK Ltd., has been added to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners...

Canopius Completes Acquisition of AmTrust at Lloyd’s

Oct 3 2019 // Canopius Group announced it has completed its acquisition of AmTrust at Lloyd’s.The merger provides Canopius with significant additional underwriting expertise and a broader product offering, creating a leading...

Hines Joins Everest’s Specialty Insurance Group in Underwriting

Oct 2 2019 // Kurt Hines has joined insurer Everest Insurance as vice president of Underwriting in the Specialty Insurance Group, which offers coverages for the sports, leisure and entertainment industries. In this role, Hines will be...

Willis Re Specialty Taps Aspen’s Harrell as Managing Director & Chief Operating Officer

Oct 2 2019 // Reinsurance broker Willis Re announced the appointment, with immediate effect, of Donald Harrell as managing director & chief operating officer of Willis Re Specialty. Harrell joins with more than 25 years’...

Euclid Insurance Services Taps CNA’s Elliott to Lead New Life Sciences Division

Oct 1 2019 // Euclid Insurance Services, Inc. has formed Euclid Life Science Specialty, LLC (Euclid Life Science), a product and professional liability insurance underwriting platform providing tailored casualty coverage products to the...

Third Point Re’s Wilson Joins Hamilton to Head U.S. Casualty, Specialty Reinsurance Unit

Oct 1 2019 // Bermuda-based specialty insurer and reinsurer Hamilton Insurance Group announced that Steve Wilson has been appointed senior vice president, head of Casualty & Specialty, for its new U.S. reinsurance platform. Wilson...

Lloyd’s Reveals Blueprint to Build ‘Most Advanced Insurance Marketplace’

Sep 30 2019 // Lloyd’s of London has unveiled a blueprint for action to facilitate its Future at Lloyd’s project, which aims to “build the most advanced insurance marketplace in the world.” This first blueprint,...

London Market’s Early Modernization Program, LM TOM, Is Being Wound Down

Sep 30 2019 // The Board of the London Market Group (LMG) announced that the London Market Target Operating Model (LM TOM) has been wound down in its current form, having delivered the majority of proposed solutions, which are now in...

Strong E&S Premium Growth in Response to Weak Results; Top 15 E&S Writers: Fitch

Sep 30 2019 // Direct written premiums in the U.S. excess and surplus (E&S) lines market during 2018 grew at its greatest rate since 2012, increasing 11% and representing the eighth consecutive year of premium growth, according to...

AIG Taps Eccles from Argo, Langdon from Chubb for Senior Global Specialty Roles

Sep 26 2019 // American International Group, Inc. announced the appointment of two senior leaders in its global specialty business. Steve Eccles will join AIG as global head of Aerospace, General Insurance. James Langdon will join AIG as...