All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 8 2014 // Anchor Insurance Holdings is purchasing Beaumont, Texas-based Southeast Surplus Underwriters General Agency, Spindletop Premium Finance, and Ranchers and Farmers Insurance Co. from Mirage Interest Inc., the companies...
Sep 8 2014 // Kenner, La.-based Lane & Associates Inc. announced that Marie Hohensee has joined the managing general agency as vice president of commercial underwriting.Hohensee has over 30 years of experience in commercial...
Sep 8 2014 // Lloyd’s of London began and remains a specialized market (not an insurance company). It accepts risks that are too large, or too complex, or both, that do not lend themselves to coverage through more “normal...
Sep 4 2014 // Altitude Risk Partners, the global aviation and space underwriting business, announced the appointment of former broker Charles Hollingworth as an underwriter.Hollingworth joined from Aon Risk Solutions where he was a...
Aug 25 2014 // Patriot Underwriters Inc., a Patriot National Inc. company, named Shadi Lang vice president of marketing and underwriting of its California region. Lang will be based in Woodland Hills. In her new role, Lang will build and...
Aug 22 2014 // Wholesale insurance provider J.M. Wilson has hired Erika Barney in its Arlington Heights, Ill., office as a transportation underwriter. Barney will be responsible for quoting new and renewal bobtail and transportation...
Aug 21 2014 // Floating together in a muck of alphabet soup the insurance industry, the government and the scientific community can be assured success in at least one thing amid their combined efforts to deal with climate...
Aug 20 2014 // J.M. Wilson has added Josh Mauk as a transportation underwriter in its Carmel, Ind., office. Mauk is responsible for quoting new and renewal trucking, non-trucking, business auto and public auto risks for Indiana...
Aug 20 2014 // Managing general agency and surplus lines broker, J.M., Wilson has added Samantha Johnston as assistant property/casualty underwriter in its Portage, Mich., office. Johnston began at J.M. Wilson as a property/casualty...
Aug 18 2014 // Chicago, Ill.-based Berkley Fire & Marine Underwriters hired Kiley O’Connell as territory underwriting manager for the states of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. He is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.O’Connell is...
Aug 15 2014 // Indianapolis-based Specialty Insurance Group (SIG) appointed Charles (Charlie) Landrum as underwriting director, with a specialty focus in the sports and entertainment markets. Prior to joining the SIG team, Landrum was...
Aug 15 2014 // The MEMIC Group, a workers’ compensation insurer in Portland, Maine, hired Steven Crobar and Margaret Templeton as senior production underwriters to serve its agents in the state of New York.Together, Crobar and...
Aug 15 2014 // Catlin Group Limited (CGL) announced that Andrew McMellin, currently CEO of the Group’s US underwriting hub, will become CEO of the London hub during the first half of 2015.The bulletin also explained that Paul...
Aug 12 2014 // XL Group announced that it is addressing “businesses’ growing interest in Trade Receivables Insurance (TRI),” with the addition of “underwriting resources with the appointments of Jennifer...
Aug 11 2014 // Trinity Underwriting ManagersInc. (TUMI), a Georgia-based program administrator, announced the hiring of Don Oxidine as senior underwriter responsible for managing the company’s fleet intermodal trucking...
Aug 7 2014 // Wesley C. (Tripp) Duesenberg, III, has been named president of Georgia-based managing general agency Southern Insurance Underwriters.He will succeed Wesley C. Duesenberg Jr., who has served as president for the previous 30...
Aug 7 2014 // Heidi Burke New Day Underwriting Managers LLC, a Hamilton, N.J.-based specialty intermediary for environmental and construction-related professional liability insurance coverage, has hired Heidi Burke as account manager....
Aug 7 2014 // San Diego, Calif. (Aug. 7, 2014) – Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC, a national multi-line program manager, welcomes Jill Bay-Weber as the new senior vice president of the commercial division.In her new role,...
Aug 4 2014 // Net income for Berkshire-Hathaway soared nearly 41 percent to $6.4 billion in second-quarter 2014, with nearly $2.0 billion of investment gains lifting the total, while underwriting profits for Berkshire-Hathaway’s...
Jul 31 2014 // The Hartford Financial Services Group said Wednesday its 2014 second quarter net loss widened to $467 million, compared to a net loss of $190 million during last year’s second quarter. The results were hit by $617...