All the headlines from our Property Casualty Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 19 2018 // Jimcor Agency Inc., an independent managing general agent and insurance wholesaler, has hired Sarah Warner as a property and casualty underwriter for the Western Pennsylvania office located in Pittsburgh, Penn, and Stefan...
Apr 19 2018 // An insurance agency owner in Florida has been arrested after he admitted to stealing more than $60,000 in insurance premiums, according to a statement from the Florida Department of Financial Services (DFS).Michael...
Apr 18 2018 // Global reinsurer capital continued to rise in 2017, despite the US$136 billion in insured losses from natural catastrophes last year, according to a reinsurance market report published by Aon Benfield.Indeed, capital...
Apr 16 2018 // Young agents want change. They want more diversity in the agency sales ranks. They want better paths to grow in their careers. They want other agents to adhere to professional standards and ethics. They want faster and...
Apr 16 2018 // SIAA (Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance) has hired Gretchen Klemm as a contracts compliance manager at its Hampton, N.H., location.In this role, Klemm will manage day-to-day interactions with independent agency members...
Apr 12 2018 // Cal Inspection Bureau of Tarzana, California, and Legacy P&C of Camden, South Carolina, have formed a new firm offering premium audit services to insurers for commercial accounts nationwide. The joint firm has been...
Apr 11 2018 // Socius Insurance Services Inc., a management liability and property/casualty insurance wholesaler, has opened a branch in Dallas — its first in Texas.Assistant Vice President of Property and Casualty Chris Barnes will...
Apr 10 2018 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty re/insurance, announced it will establish a retail platform designed to integrate all the operations of Sompo Holdings Inc....
Apr 6 2018 // Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc. has acquired the federal employee insurance business of Federal Employee Services LLC in Edmond, Oklahoma. Federal Employee Services provides coverages to both civil service and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...