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Lloyd’s MGA, CFC Underwriting, Launches Cyber Incident Response App

Mar 6 2017 // CFC Underwriting, the London-based specialist lines underwriting agency, announced the launch of a new cyber incident response application.The app allows policyholders to notify a claim with a click of a button and receive...

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Mar 6 2017 // Texas Insurance Commissioner David Mattax has been reappointed to the post by Gov. Greg Abbott, the governor’s office announced. His term expires Feb. 1, 2019.Mattax has served as insurance commissioner since January...

Asta Invests in London & Dubai Reinsurance MGA, Arma Underwriting

Feb 27 2017 // Asta, the London-based Lloyd’s third party managing agent and specialist MGA investor, announced it has agreed to invest in the development of Arma Underwriting Ltd. Asta will take a minority equity stake in Arma and...

Starr’s Pittinger Joins ANV Global Services as Underwriting Director

Feb 22 2017 // ANV Global Services Inc., the North American managing general underwriter (MGU) owned by AmTrust Financial Services Inc., has appointed James Pittinger to the role of underwriting director. Responsible for the North...

AXIS Insurance Taps Beazley’s Brown to Lead London Market MGA Growth

Feb 22 2017 // AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. announced that Julian Brown has joined AXIS Insurance as vice president and underwriter, responsible for leading growth initiatives and product development for the company’s London market...

Ed Announces Series of Appointments and One Departure

Feb 15 2017 // Ed, the London-based reinsurance, wholesale and specialty broker, has announced several appointments over the past few weeks in the areas of international property and casualty, marine and energy, finance, and...

UK Opens National Cyber Security Centre; MGA Sciemus Comments

Feb 15 2017 // The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) was officially launched this week – a government sponsored organization that is focused on improving the UK’s cyber security and cyber resilience.The NCSC will...

Beazley Buys Canadian Specialty MGA, Creechurch Underwriters

Feb 6 2017 // Beazley is expanding its presence in Canada with the acquisition of the specialist managing general agent, Creechurch Underwriters. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Since its founding in 1996,...

H.W. Kaufman, Burns & Wilcox Canada Buy XN Canada Private Client Services

Jan 31 2017 // H.W. Kaufman Financial Group and Burns & Wilcox Canada announced they have acquired the high-value homeowner’s insurance practice from Quebec-based XN Financial Services Inc. (XN).A managing general agent and...

RSGUM Acquires Interstate Insurance Management in Pennsylvania

Jan 30 2017 // RSG Underwriting Managers (RSGUM) has agreed to acquire the total assets and operations of Interstate Insurance Management Inc. (Interstate).Interstate was represented in the transaction by Marsh, Berry & Company Inc....

StarStone Partners with Dubai-Based MGA; Swiss Re’s Hussey Appointed

Jan 24 2017 // StarStone, the global specialty insurer and subsidiary of Enstar Group Ltd., announced a joint venture partnership with Malakite Underwriting Partners Ltd., a managing general agent in Dubai, subject to regulatory...

Targeting Growth with Hockey Pucks, Insureon CEO Seeks Constant Improvement

Jan 23 2017 // A major online provider of commercial insurance for small businesses in the United States keeps track of its growth milestones with hockey pucks. OK, that might be a bit of a stretch but Chicago-based Insureon definitely...

Targeting Growth with Hockey Pucks, Insureon CEO Seeks Constant Improvement

Jan 23 2017 // A major online provider of commercial insurance for small businesses in the United States keeps track of its growth milestones with hockey pucks. OK, that might be a bit of a stretch but Chicago-based Insureon definitely...

Soft Market Is Main Factor Limiting Growth of UK MGAs: Survey

Jan 20 2017 // Soft market conditions have replaced regulation and compliance as the main factor affecting growth for UK managing general agents (MGA) in 2017, said a survey of members of the London-based Managing General Agents’...

Correction: Brown & Brown’s Hull Acquires Insurance House Commercial MGA Business

Jan 3 2017 // Hull & Co., a wholesale insurance subsidiary of giant Brown & Brown, has acquired the commercial managing general agency operations of Insurance House.Insurance House is an MGA and wholesale insurance broker...

Insureon CEO on Growth, Hockey Pucks and the Perils of Complacency

Dec 6 2016 // A major online provider of commercial insurance for small businesses in the United States keeps track of its growth milestones with hockey pucks. OK, that might be a bit of a stretch but Chicago-based Insureon definitely...

Worldwide Facilities Acquires Trinity Underwriting Managers of Georgia

Dec 6 2016 // Worldwide Facilities, a national wholesale insurance brokerage and managing general agency, has acquired Trinity Underwriting Managers, Inc. (TUMI), an underwriting manager and wholesale insurance broker specializing in...

Insurance Associations AAMGA, NAPSLO Move Forward with Merger Talks

Dec 2 2016 // A possible merger of the nation’s two major excess and surplus lines organizations is on track.The American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) and the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines...

Advent Claims Launches Regulatory Compliant Platform for MGAs, Coverholders

Nov 21 2016 // Advent Claims, a division of Advent Insurance Management with claims operations in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, has launched a proprietary web-based claims management system for managing general agents (MGAs) and...

UK MGA Nexus Underwriting Forms Claims Company Called ‘Nexus Claims’

Nov 16 2016 // Nexus Underwriting, the London-based independent specialty managing general agent (MGA), has formed a claims company, trading as Nexus Claims.Being run independently from the underwriting companies, Nexus Claims offers...