Latest Property Casualty Headlines

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Chubb appoints Kwan as Division Head of Property & Casualty for Singapore

Aug 6 2019 // Chubb announced the appointment of Eric Kwan as division head of Property & Casualty for Singapore, effective Aug.5, 2019.He reports to Scott Simpson, Chubb’s country president for Singapore. In Kwan’s new...

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Aug 5 2019 // The Vertafore technology users network, NetVU, has named Linda Dodson as executive director. Dodson’s career has included work in an insurance agency and with agency carriers. She began her insurance career with Rand...

Chubb Promotes Ortega to President, Overseas, as Andrade Moves to Top Everest Role

Aug 1 2019 // Chubb Ltd. has appointed Juan Luis Ortega as executive vice president, Chubb Group, and president, Overseas General Insurance. He succeeds Juan Andrade, who is leaving Chubb to take the role of president and chief...

Chubb Q2 Saw Net Income Dip, Premium Growth

Jul 25 2019 // Global insurer Chubb’s saw its net income dip slightly and its P/C combined ratio nudge higher during the 2019 second quarter, but price increases led to solid premium gains.“This quarter was about growth and...

Insurance Agency Mergers Hit Near-Record in First Half 2019

Jul 24 2019 // There were 328 announced U.S. and Canadian insurance agency mergers and acquisitions during the first half of 2019, the second-highest six-month total, trailing only the first half of 2017 when 333 transactions were...

By Taming Big Data with AI, Cytora Aims to Transform Commercial Underwriting

Jul 17 2019 // It is an insurtech startup operating an artificial intelligence-powered platform that aims to transform commercial insurance underwriting. While the goal may seem ambitious, Cytora is making significant inroads toward...

Harris Promoted to P/C Underwriter at J.M. Wilson in Michigan

Jul 17 2019 // J.M. Wilson has promoted Lacey Harris to property/casualty underwriter in its Portage, Michigan, office. Lacey is responsible for quoting new and renewal commercial property and casualty risks and serving independent...

Petri Honored with ICT’s Raymond Mauk Leadership Award

Jul 15 2019 // The Insurance Council of Texas has presented the Raymond Mauk Leadership Award to Verle Petri, a long time insurance executive and expert on Texas insurance regulation and policy.ICT honored Petri with the award during the...

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Jul 15 2019 // PartnerRe announced that Jonathan Colello has joined the company effective July 1, 2019, as CEO for P&C Americas and president of Partner Reinsurance Co. of the U.S. In his new role, Colello will have executive...

U.S. P/C Insurers’ Net Income Increased 69% in 2018 Over 2017: A.M. Best

Jul 15 2019 // The U.S. property/casualty industry showed a year-over-year 69% increase in net income to $59.2 billion in 2018, owing to lower losses from catastrophic events, favorable development of prior years’ loss reserves and...

New York-Based Broker NFP Buys Toronto’s McLean Hallmark Insurance Group

Jul 12 2019 // New York City-based insurance broker and consultant NFP announced it has acquired Canadian broker McLean Hallmark Insurance Group Ltd.Financial details of the transaction, which closed on July 2, were not disclosed. Based...

Nationwide Offers Independent Agents a Commercial Insurance Digital Storefront

Jul 9 2019 // Giant insurer Nationwide is partnering with an insurtech in an effort to speed up its product underwriting for commercial lines property/casualty agents.The technology Nationwide is deploying was developed by Ohio-based...

Consultant Sees Larger, Fewer P/C Insurance Agencies Going Forward

Jul 9 2019 // There will be fewer insurance agencies operating in the property/casualty insurance industry in the future and those that remain will be larger and more tech-savvy, says an insurance-focused executive at the consulting...

Asia Market Drives Global Insurance Premiums Past $5 Trillion in 2018: Swiss Re

Jul 8 2019 // Carriers’ expansion in Asia helped push global insurance premiums past the $5 trillion mark for the first time in 2018, Swiss Re said in its latest sigma report.That growth came generally from property/casualty...

Preparing for the Unpredictable Talent Considerations for CAT Season

Jul 1 2019 // The combined global losses from natural disasters in 2017 and 2018 were the highest ever for a two-year period. While no single major catastrophe caused massive destruction in 2018, nearly 400 smaller natural disasters...

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Jul 1 2019 // American International Group said Kathleen Zortman will join the company as president and CEO of Private Client Group, General Insurance. In this new role, Zortman will lead AIG’s global high net worth portfolio,...

2019 Super Regional P/C Insurers

Jul 1 2019 // In order to continue the discussion regarding what constitutes a Super Regional P/C Insurer™ and to give definition to this important group of insurers, Demotech Inc. analyzed year-end 2018 data for property/casualty...

U.S. P/C Insurers’ Net Income Increased 69% in 2018: A.M. Best

Jun 27 2019 // The U.S. property/casualty industry showed a year-over-year 69% increase in net income to $59.2 billion in 2018, owing to lower losses from catastrophic events, favorable development of prior years’ loss reserves and...

Universal Property & Casualty Expanding Into Wisconsin

Jun 24 2019 // Universal Insurance Holdings Inc. subsidiary, Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Co. (Universal Property), has received a Certificate of Authority in to operate as a licensed insurance entity in...

Alera Group Selects Englert as National P&C Leader

Jun 19 2019 // Alera Group, a national employee benefits, property/casualty, risk management and wealth management firm based in Deerfield, Illinois, has appointed Mark Englert as national property/casualty practice leader.Englert will...