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Wawanesa Mutual Names Jardine President of Canadian P/C Operation

Apr 6 2018 // Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Co. announced the appointment of Carol Jardine as president of Wawanesa’s Canadian property and casualty (P/C) operation. Prior to her appointment, Jardine was senior vice president and...

Everest Insurance Launches Private Company Management Liability Policy

Apr 6 2018 // Everest Specialty Underwriters (ESU), a division of Everest Insurance, has launched Everest Expedition, a private company management liability policy.This new modular management and professional liability policy is...

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Apr 2 2018 // Global loss adjusting firm McLarens has promoted Susan Froman to senior vice president of Business Development – The Americas.Froman joined McLarens three years ago to recruit and establish the domestic business...

P/C Insurers Record $23.5B in Underwriting Loss in 2017

Apr 2 2018 // The U.S. property/casualty industry recorded a net underwriting loss of $23.5 billion for year-end 2017, according to preliminary results from A.M. Best. That was $18 billion bigger than the underwriting loss in 2016.The...

BHSI Opens Perth Office; Chubb’s Prindiville & Shepard Named P/C Underwriters

Mar 26 2018 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced it has opened an office in Perth, Western Australia, naming Anthony Prindiville to lead its casualty underwriting and Mark Shepard to lead property underwriting...

Woodruff-Sawyer Names DeVilbiss of Travelers P/C Leader in California

Mar 20 2018 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Joel DeVilbiss the San Francisco, Calif. property/casualty practice leader. DeVilbiss is charged with driving the direction and development of Woodruff-Sawyer’s P/C practice in...

How Bad Was P/C Insurers’ Underwriting Loss in 2017?

Mar 20 2018 // The U.S. property/casualty industry recorded a net underwriting loss of $23.5 billion for year-end 2017, according to preliminary results from A.M. Best. That was $18 billion bigger than the underwriting loss in 2016.The...

Texas Moves to Liquidate Non-Standard Auto Insurer, Access

Mar 19 2018 // Texas insurance regulators placed into receivership and started the process of liquidating a Texas-domiciled/Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered property/casualty insurance company that the insurance department says is...

Agent-Inspired Insurtechs ‘Self-Disrupt’ Small Commercial Lines

Mar 19 2018 // Insurance industry technology is experiencing a revolution. While insurance carriers and venture capital firms have been behind much of today’s insurtech innovation, insurance agents and brokers have also jumped into...

Milliman Adds Property and Casualty Team to Tampa Office, Taps Rollins to Lead

Mar 16 2018 // Milliman Inc., a global consulting and actuarial firm, has added a property and casualty team to its Tampa, Fla., office in response to the growing demand for the firm’s property insurance analytics. It has tapped...

Alliant Hires Former New Jersey State Senator Beck

Mar 13 2018 // Alliant has added former New Jersey State Senator Jennifer Beck to its regional brokerage team.As vice president, Beck will provide insurance and risk management services to organizations across the Garden State. Beck...

Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Acquires Self Insurance in Missouri

Mar 8 2018 // Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc., headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, has acquired a Sikeston, Missouri-based agency, Tri-Star of Sikeston Inc., doing business as Self Insurance. Now led by Brian Self, the...

Tax Law Will Benefit U.S. P/C Insurers, Says Moody’s

Mar 7 2018 // The impact of the new U.S. tax law is credit positive for U.S.-based insurance companies, which will boost profitability for many of these firms, particularly those that have been paying high effective tax rates.The Trump...

Alliant Acquires Hecht & Hecht’s P/C Operations in Oregon

Mar 5 2018 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Portland, Ore.-based Hecht & Hecht’s property/casualty insurance services.The deal will bring Hecht & Hecth’s P/C insurance services under the Alliant...

XL Group CEO McGavick Comments on Firm’s Agreed Purchase by France’s AXA

Mar 5 2018 // XL Group’s CEO Mike McGavick has issued the following statement to clients and brokers in response to today’s announcement that XL has entered into an agreement to be acquired by French insurer AXA.Dear Valued...

BIB Appoints Szalkay to Continue Southern Expansion

Mar 5 2018 // Boston Insurance Brokerage LLC (BIB), a national wholesale specialty insurance agency headquartered in Boston, has added Jennifer Szalkay as vice president of Property & Casualty Division. In this role, Szalkay assumes...

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Mar 5 2018 // Integro Insurance Brokers has named Jacquelyn Neal as a principal in the marine practice. Neal is based in the San Francisco, Calif., office.She will manage a book of existing marine clients and develop new cargo and...

5 Strategies for Success in Small Business Market

Mar 5 2018 // The small business market is big. The U.S. small commercial market represents about one-third of the total commercial lines market and generates between $99 billion and $103 billion in direct written premium, according to...

NFP Focusing on Organic Growth in Central Texas Expansion

Mar 5 2018 // Employee benefits and property/casualty insurance broker and consultant NFP traditionally has grown through acquisitions but as the global organization targets Central Texas for expansion it plans to use another strategy...

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Mar 5 2018 // St. Louis, Missouri-based Safety National Casualty Corp. announced management changes that are effective April 1, 2018.Gene Maier, executive vice president and chief underwriting officer, is retiring. During his 33-year...