All the headlines from our Excess Surplus Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 19 2019 // Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd. announced that Joshua (Josh) Brekenfeld has been appointed director of Global Corporate Development.Brekenfeld joins Aspen from Lloyd’s of London where he spent six years in senior...
Jun 19 2019 // Tower Hill Specialty has further expanded into the Southeast and is now offering manufactured housing and dwelling fire insurance policies in Mississippi.Optional coverage features include equipment breakdown and service...
Jun 18 2019 // Lloyd’s of London, the 330-year-old insurance market, is pushing to revamp auto coverage as the rise of driverless cars looms. Chief Executive Officer John Neal said that Lloyd’s is talking with automakers...
Jun 17 2019 // For most of the traders, bankers, lawyers and accountants who populate the City of London, the era of excessive daytime boozing is long gone. Pubs and pints have been replaced by coffee shops and lattes. Dealmaking...
Jun 17 2019 // PURE Programs has expanded its coverage for high value homeowners into Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.Across the region, PURE Programs will offer coverage for homes with a rebuilding cost of $1 million...
Jun 17 2019 // Surplus lines premium in Texas has consistently broken records each month in 2019, according to data recorded by the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX).For the first five months of this year, each recorded total...
Jun 17 2019 // Liability insurance protects the customer when something happens to someone else. Customers have liability exposures if they do something, sell something, have a place, go to a place or hire someone, among other...
Jun 17 2019 // Construction insurance specialists say their insurance market is strong with plenty of capacity and underwriters competing for the best accounts.According to specialists interviewed by Insurance Journal for their...
Jun 17 2019 // Pioneer Underwriters, the underwriting group within Minova Insurance Holdings, has appointed Nick Greggains CEO of Pioneer’s U.S. operation, effective March 25. Greggains succeeds previous U.S. CEO Gene Hinman, who...
Jun 17 2019 // The Surplus Line Association of California board has voted to adjust the stamping fee to 0.25%, effective Jan. 1, 2020, the group announced earlier this month.The stamping fee has been set at 0.2% for seven years, the...
Jun 12 2019 // AXIS Re, the reinsurance business segment of AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd., announced the hiring of Joe Sweeting as head of Lloyd’s Casualty Reinsurance.In this role, Sweeting will be responsible for managing all...
Jun 12 2019 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has added Ward Humphreys as senior vice president to the reinsurance team of its National Health Care Practice. His hiring is part...
Jun 11 2019 // The Surplus Line Association of California board has voted to adjust the stamping fee to 0.25%, effective Jan. 1, 2020, the group announced on Tuesday.The stamping fee has been set at 0.2% for seven years, the longest...
Jun 11 2019 // Two executives at a top Lloyd’s of London insurance company have resigned following allegations of sexual harassment. One was accused of groping colleagues at a booze-fueled party, the other of stalking a junior...
Jun 7 2019 // Emil Issavi, previously Aspen Re’s president and chief underwriting officer and managing director of the Americas is taking on a new role as a senior executive of Ryan Specialty Group (RSG), RSG Underwriting Managers...
Jun 6 2019 // Surplus lines premium in Texas has consistently broken records each month in 2019, according to data recorded by the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX). For the first five months of this year, each recorded...
Jun 6 2019 // Burbank, Calif.-based Monarch E&S Insurance Services has named Phillip Morton vice president, commercial lines department manager. He was previously a senior underwriter/broker for the firm. Monarch is a division of...
Jun 4 2019 // Burbank, Calif.-based Monarch E&S Insurance Services has named Devon Borisoff vice president, director of carrier relations. He was previously a commercial underwriter for Monarch. Borisoff has held past positions with...
Jun 4 2019 // HDI Global Specialty SE announced the appointment of Alan Waters as global head of Distribution and Business Development. Waters will report to Richard Taylor, a member of the Executive Board of Management and UK managing...
Jun 3 2019 // Ryan Specialty Group has acquired the assets and operations of Atlantic Specialty Lines Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.The ASL team is now a part of R-T Specialty, the wholesale brokerage unit of Ryan...