All the headlines from our Surety Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 17 2021 // National Interstate Insurance Co. has promoted Christopher (Chris) E. Mikolay to senior vice president, Specialty Division and Daniel (Dan) M. Keenan to vice president, National Accounts.Mikolay will assume leadership...
Apr 8 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Old Republic Surety.When a surety company asks personal questions of construction clients, they may think the surety is too invasive. Here’s why the answers to those...
Apr 6 2021 // CNA Insurance said it continues to make progress in restoring its operations following a March 21 cyber attack.Today it announced that cna.com, including CNA Central and cnasurety.com, are back online. This means that...
Mar 22 2021 // A group of investors led by Bernhard Capital Partners Management LP (Bernhard Capital), a services and infrastructure-focused private equity management firm, has entered into an agreement to make a significant investment...
Mar 4 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Old Republic Surety.Growth, expansion and acquisitions are all good, right? Not necessarily. Here’s what you need to know to keep your construction company in good standing...
Feb 18 2021 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Newfront Insurance has named Lindsay Spruill-Iqbal a principal and surety producer. Spruill-Iqbal joins Newfront from AmTrust Surety. Spruill-Iqbal has more than 15 years of marketing and...
Jan 22 2021 // Skyward Specialty Insurance Group Inc. has acquired Aegis Surety and simultaneously sold XPro, which provides solutions for the pest control industry. K2 Insurance Services is both the seller of Aegis Surety and the buyer...
Jan 7 2021 // Markel Surety, a part of Markel Corp.’s Markel’s Specialty division, has increased its capacity offering to $500 million for the most qualified accounts with the establishment of a National Accounts...
Nov 20 2020 // Specialty insurer Hudson Insurance Group has agreed to acquire the Allegheny Group Inc. (AGI) and its subsidiaries from its private shareholders.Hudson, by acquiring Pennsylvania-based AGI, will own Allegheny Surety Co., a...
Nov 17 2020 // Arch Insurance North America announced that Stephen Ruschak has been hired as executive vice president, Surety.Ruschak most recently was chief executive officer of The Guarantee Company of North America. In this role,...
Nov 6 2020 // UFG Insurance has named Dave Lavallee as UFG Surety branch manager of the New England surety branch.Lavallee has previously served as surety branch manager for Tokio Marine HCC for the last 12 years. He has experience in...
Aug 20 2020 // Insurer QBE has named Harpreet Mann as head of Global Credit & Surety for its North America division. In this role, she will develop strategy for enhancing the this book of business in North America while building...
Jul 17 2020 // Amynta Group, a provider of property/casualty and warranty protection products and services, has acquired the surety operations of Aspen Insurance. The business will now operate as Amynta Surety Solutions.As part of the...
Jul 7 2020 // Talisman Casualty Insurance Co. of Nevada has launched a surety program designed to help its captive clients avoid the possibility of losses caused by a failure on the principal’s part to meet the obligations of...
Jul 1 2020 // Marsh, the insurance broker and risk adviser, announced the appointment of Mike Johnson as chairman of the UK Construction, Infrastructure & Surety Practice, Marsh JLT Specialty.Effective immediately, Johnson succeeds...
Jun 11 2020 // Mark Munekawa, senior vice president and surety manager at San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff Sawyer has been elected the 2020-2021 president of the National Association of Surety Bond Producers. NASBP is the association...
Feb 26 2020 // Insurance Office of America (IOA) has added Michael J. Tresidder to its team. Tresidder has been appointed director of surety, which is a newly created position, and he will be based in IOA’s Syracuse, N.Y,...
Feb 25 2020 // St. Louis, Missouri-based POWERS Insurance & Risk Management has opened a new division: POWERS Surety Bonds.The new national division will focus on bond products and services for all surety programs to help safeguard...
Jan 17 2020 // Liberty Mutual Surety has launched a new product line dedicated to contract transactional and small- to mid-sized surety business.Liberty Mutual Surety Plus is available through independent agents and serves contractors...
Dec 5 2019 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced it has expanded its global surety team with the addition of Andrew Adams as head of Surety in Canada.In this new role, Adams will establish and expand BHSI’s...