All the headlines from our Personal Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 6 2020 // R-T Specialty LLC has promoted Claudia May, based in Houston, to co-president of the company’s national personal lines practice.May has concentrated on personal lines since the start of her career over 25 years ago....
Feb 4 2020 // R-T Specialty LLC has named Dave Adcock and Claudia May as President of RT Specialty’s National Personal Lines Practice.Adcock began his insurance career as a personal lines underwriter in 2000 and joined RT...
Feb 3 2020 // The personal umbrella market had been steady for many years, with lots of choices available in the market when it came to finding the right coverage for customers. However, recent changes are turning the market upside down...
Jan 29 2020 // Sacramento, Calif.-based Bender Insurance Solutions has promoted Jeffrey Wood to vice president of personal lines. Wood will continue to expand the sales and service offerings of the personal lines department, and provide...
Dec 31 2019 // St. Louis, Missouri-based POWERS Insurance & Risk Management has hired Kathy Pallarito as a personal lines manager.Pallarito has over 25 years of sales, customer service, and marketing experience in the insurance...
Dec 17 2019 // Performance in the U.S. personal auto insurance market continues to run favorably in 2019, on par with underwriting profits achieved in 2018, according to Fitch Ratings. However segment results for the industry are likely...
Dec 16 2019 // A.M. Best has maintained a market segment outlook of stable on the U.S. personal lines industry for 2020, citing a significant decline in catastrophe activity, profitable underwriting performance in the private passenger...
Dec 9 2019 // A.M. Best has maintained a market segment outlook of stable on the U.S. personal lines industry for 2020, citing a significant decline in catastrophe activity, profitable underwriting performance in the private passenger...
Dec 6 2019 // Burns & Wilcox has named Pamela Alphabet to its leadership team as regional practice group leader for the Western region, personal insurance. She is based in Scottsdale, Ariz. Alphabet will partner with the...
Dec 2 2019 // The personal umbrella market had been steady for many years, with lots of choices available in the market when it came to finding the right coverage for customers. However, recent changes are turning the market upside down...
Nov 18 2019 // About the Personal Lines Leaders: The 2019 Personal Lines Leaders in this special feature are taken from Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Agencies as reported in August. This list utilizes...
Oct 11 2019 // Portage, Michigan-based managing general agency and surplus lines broker, J.M. Wilson, has promoted Ryan Bartolacci to personal lines underwriter.Bartolacci is responsible for quoting new and renewal personal lines risks...
Oct 7 2019 // U.K. home and car insurers could be stopped from jacking up prices when customers’ policies come up for renewal as the country’s financial-markets watchdog clamps down on an industry that’s not giving a...
Sep 25 2019 // The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has expanded its business in Vermont to include personal lines insurance and appointed a group of independent agents in the state to serve its growing customer base.According to The...
Sep 19 2019 // Managing general agency and surplus lines broker J.M. Wilson has promoted Liam Davis to assistant personal lines underwriter in its Portage, Michigan, office. Davis is responsible for assisting underwriters on a wide...
Sep 18 2019 // Chubb has launched a new service designed to help personal auto clients remove sensitive electronic information from their vehicles in the event of an insured total loss. “While hands-free GPS and mobile connectivity...
Aug 22 2019 // The Personal Insurance Federation of Florida (PIFF) has appointed Scott Matiyow as the organization’s new vice president of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs.Matiyow will serve as a lead lobbyist on property and...
Jul 3 2019 // The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has launched Hanover Prestige – a high-value personal lines market for home, auto and condominiums.Hanover Prestige offers insurance protection, high-quality care and service, along...
Jun 13 2019 // Cook Maran, a Prime Risk partner, recently hired Elliot Roberts as a private client advisor for Personal Insurance. He will operate out of the Cook Maran office in New York City.Roberts was previously vice president of...
May 24 2019 // U.S. personal lines insurance saw strong premium growth of 8% in 2018 and the sector’s statutory combined ratio of 99% for 2018 represented the market’s best results since 2013, according to a new special...