All the headlines from our Insurance Wholesale Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 11 2011 // Insurance distribution technology vendor Vertafore has appointed Mark Sonders as senior vice president of sales and client services. Reporting directly to the CEO, Sonders will have responsibility for sales, marketing and...
Aug 8 2011 // Two veteran insurance industry executives – Pat Kilkenny, former Chairman and CEO of Arrowhead General Insurance Services, Inc., and Bob Kimmel, former Guy Carpenter & Co., LLC, executive vice president – have...
Aug 1 2011 // Okemos, MI August 1, 2011 – NetRate Systems, Inc. (Okemos, MI), a leading supplier of ISO® Commercial Lines Rating software for the MGA and carrier marketplace, has announced the availability of a new, high-powered...
Jul 27 2011 // Hank Watkins, president of Lloyd’s America Inc., smiles like he has a big secret he wants to spill.The history of Lloyd’s of London is no secret: originated in Edward Lloyd’s coffee shop in London;...
Jul 21 2011 // Ryan Specialty Group, LLC (RSG) introduces PER se (Power.Energy.Risk, ‘securing the environment’) – an MGU specializing in the energy and power sector, with a primary focus on renewable energy risks. PER se...
Jul 18 2011 // Hank Watkins, president of Lloyd’s America Inc., smiles like he has a big secret he wants to spill.The history of Lloyd’s of London is no secret: originated in Edward Lloyd’s coffee shop in London;...
Jun 24 2011 // Arrowhead Wholesale Insurance Services of San Diego has named Kathy Bleasdale assistant vice president. She will work as a broker working remote in Northern California. Bleasdale has more than 20 years of insurance...
Jun 6 2011 // The simmering compensation conflict between London’s broker community and the underwriters they work with erupted following a keynote speech given by the Catlin Group’s chief executive Stephen Catlin at a...
May 20 2011 // Jacksonville-based Fidelity National Property and Casualty Insurance Co., which covers some 12,000 homeowners in the state, is seeking a statewide average 27 percent rate increase.At a public rate hearing, Fidelity...
May 20 2011 // The simmering compensation conflict between London’s broker community and the underwriters they work with erupted following a keynote speech given by the Catlin Group’s chief executive Stephen Catlin this week...
May 17 2011 // The UK’s BMS Group announced that its Lloyd’s Managing General Agent subsidiary, Pioneer Underwriting and JH Intermediaries have added two new employees: John Andrews, as Business Development Director and Jade...
May 16 2011 // With 30 years of insurance industry experience under his belt, one Texas-based insurance executive decided recently it was time to open his own operation to serve the insurance needs of the growing Hispanic population....
May 16 2011 // Sometimes bigger is not always better. Large wholesale organizations have a place in the market, but smaller and often family-owned managing general agencies (MGA) also have a place, says Wayne Forest, the incoming...
Mar 31 2011 // Socius Insurance Services Inc., a San Francisco-based management liability and property and casualty insurance wholesaler, announced the appointment of Anna Vu as assistant vice president in the firm’s Los Angeles...
Mar 24 2011 // Arrowhead Wholesale Insurance Services LLC has added Christie Urita, as the company’s new assistant vice president of its professional liability division. Experienced in all areas of professional liability,...
Mar 3 2011 // Maritime General Agency announced its newly formed business identity, which it said “combines three niche marine insurance underwriting facilities: Maritime Program Group; Maritime General Agency, Marine MGA, and...
Feb 21 2011 // The California Insurance Wholesalers Association honored David F. Anderson, chairman of Anderson & Murison, with its Wholesale Industry Award.Anderson was a founding president of CIWA from 1991 to 1993. He served on...
Feb 10 2011 // AmWINS Group, Inc. has acquired American Southwest Insurance Managers, Inc., Excel General Agency, Inc. and Oakwood Software Insurance Solutions, LLC. ASIM is a managing general agents for non-standard automobile insurance...
Feb 8 2011 // The California Insurance Wholesalers Association has honored David F. Anderson, chairman of Anderson & Murison, with its Wholesale Industry Award.Anderson was a founding president of CIWA from 1991 to 1993. He served...
Feb 1 2011 // Ryan Specialty Group, LLC (RSG) has launched CivicRisk (CRU), a managing general underwriter specializing in excess casualty coverage for public entities which includes, but is not limited to, cities, counties, school...