All the headlines from our Insurance Wholesale Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 2 2024 // Devonshire UW Ltd. and its affiliate Devonshire UW Europe GmbH (known collectively as “Devonshire Underwriting”) announced the launch of a managing general agent specializing in transactional risk...
Mar 27 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at AXA XL and DUAL’s specialist motor MGA KGM.A summary of these new hires follows here. AXA XL Promotes Cole to Global Chief Underwriting Officer for...
Mar 19 2024 // SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, March 19, 2024 – The California Insurance Wholesalers Association (CIWA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to advocacy, education, and networking in the Property & Casualty segment of the...
Mar 12 2024 // Amynta Group, the New York-based insurance services provider, announced the completion of the previously announced acquisition of Sutton Special Risk Inc., a managing general underwriter (MGU) of specialty insurance and...
Feb 29 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the managing general agents Fusion Specialty and Nirvana.A summary of these new hires follows here. Fusion Specialty Appoints Harwood for M&A in Asia...
Feb 22 2024 // Cyber insurance provider Coalition said it expects the total number of common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) to increase by 25% in 2024 to 34,888 vulnerabilities, or roughly 2,900 per month.The insurtech’s...
Feb 13 2024 // SiriusPoint Ltd., the Bermuda-based specialty insurer and reinsurer, and Stockholm-based managing general underwriter Ryan Specialty Nordics AB, have announced a new strategic trading partnership.SiriusPoint will support...
Feb 8 2024 // Corvus Insurance introduced a newly expanded Tech E&O product with an enhanced appetite backed by Travelers. Smart Tech E+O from Corvus provides creative risk solutions for technology businesses across the spectrum of...
Jan 24 2024 // Sands Point Risk, a new managing general agent to be led by the founder of transaction risk solutions at DUAL, has been launched to serve the transaction liability insurance (TLI) sector.Dennis Kearns, who founded the...
Jan 22 2024 // I recently read an article regarding how the U.S. Senate wants to investigate how well reserved Florida Citizens is because of their expressed concern that if a large hurricane destroys enough property insured by Florida...
Jan 11 2024 // Ventis, the commercial and residential real estate managing general agent that provides tailored solutions for a range of property profiles, has opened for business.Founded by Gareth Roberts, previously head of...
Jan 11 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.Just a few years ago, Managing General Agencies (MGAs) were an attractive investment option in the insurtech space. But market turmoil and emerging industry challenges...
Dec 13 2023 // Ryan Specialty said it has formed an international financial lines managing general underwriter (MGU), Ryan Financial Lines.This MGU is being created by unifying the operations of EmergIn Risk, led by Jamie Bouloux;...
Dec 12 2023 // Optio Group, the London-based specialty managing general agent (MGA), announced it has entered into an agreement with a new insurer partner to provide underwriting capacity for political violence and terrorism (PVT)...
Nov 30 2023 // Rokstone, the international speciality re/insurance MGA that is part of the Aventum Group, announced the launch of a new contingency portfolio with backing from “A”-rated carriers.Rokstone is launching the...
Nov 29 2023 // Markel, the insurance operations of Markel Group Inc., announced that its wholly owned subsidiary State National Companies is entering the UK market, effective Jan. 1, 2024.State National, the largest program services...
Nov 28 2023 // BluNiche, a London-based managing general agent (MGA) that specializes in product recall insurance, announced the launch of BluNiche UK to target small and medium sized businesses across the UK.BluNiche UK is led by Ed...
Nov 27 2023 // Aviva plc announced the acquisition of Optiom O2 Holdings Inc. from Novacap and other minority shareholders for a consideration of approximately £100 million (US$126 million).Calgary, Canada-based Optiom, which operates...
Nov 15 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at SiriusPoint and Pro MGA Global Solutions.A summary of the new hires follows here. SiriusPoint Taps RSA’s Hardy as Director of Sales &...
Nov 9 2023 // Applied Underwriters has launched a new holding company called “United Risk,” which brings together the company’s MGA and MGU businesses under a single brand. Former SiriusPoint executive Dan Malloy has...