All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 14 2012 // Business Risk Partners (BRP), a Windsor, Conn.-based managing general underwriter, appointed Jayne Downey as a senior underwriter overseeing the firm’s technology errors-and-omissions (E&O) and data...
Dec 7 2012 // Liberty International Underwriters has promoted Chaman Aggarwal to the newly-created position of senior vice president, USA Construction. In the position, Aggarwal is responsible for LIU’s U.S. construction product...
Dec 6 2012 // Commercial insurance underwriting agency, APC, announced that it has begun its expansion drive into Continental Europe by launching APC Holland, based in The Hague.APC said the “independent MGA will provide a range...
Dec 5 2012 // Greenwich, Conn.-headquartered W.R. Berkley Corp. announced Gregory A. Douglas has been named president of its B F Re Underwriters unit. The appointment is effective January 1, 2013.Douglas succeeds Daniel L. Avery, who...
Dec 5 2012 // Builders Insurance Group, based in Atlanta, has named Greg R. Krause as vice president of underwriting. Krause brings 31 years of experience in the property/casualty insurance sector to his responsibilities of strategic...
Dec 3 2012 // Peoria, Ill.-based RLI Corp. announced a new partnership with Recreation Insurance Specialists (RIS), a specialty recreation vehicle (RV) insurance agency, that will allow RLI to underwrite RV insurance for RIS. RLI has...
Nov 30 2012 // Mitsui Sumitomo at Lloyd’s announced the appointment of Darren Carr as Class Underwriter for its marine liability underwriting account in a move designed to expand that sector of its business.Carr joined Mitsui...
Nov 28 2012 // West Chester, Pa.-based ProWriters (www.prowritersins.com), formerly a professional liability division of Venture Insurance Programs, has become an independent managing general underwriter (MGU).Brian Thornton, the new...
Nov 27 2012 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has assigned a financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings of “a” to Qatar Insurance Co SAQ (QIC) and its main subsidiaries:...
Nov 26 2012 // Hartford, Conn.-based SPARTA Insurance Co. recently appointed Tom Colosi as senior vice president of underwriting. Most recently, Colosi led The Hartford’s countrywide group captive program business. He is an...
Nov 19 2012 // Liberty International UnderwritersLiberty International Underwriters has set up a Dallas-based operation dedicated to handling Global Crisis Management (GCM) business for the southeastern and southwestern United States....
Nov 16 2012 // Beazley, an insurer of event cancellation and other forms of contingency business at Lloyd’s, will begin underwriting contingency business locally in the United States at the beginning of 2013. The focus will be...
Nov 14 2012 // Bermuda-based RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd announced the appointment of Kevin O’Donnell to the position of President & Global Chief Underwriting Officer.CEO Neill A. Currie commented: “I’m pleased to...
Nov 14 2012 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings of “a+” of UK-based Markel International Insurance Company...
Nov 8 2012 // Managing general agency J.M. Wilson has hired Kristen Pusateri as property/casualty insurance underwriter in its Madison, Wis., location to review, quote, bind and service commercial P/C accounts for Wisconsin independent...
Nov 7 2012 // RLI Corp. announced it has acquired Rockbridge Underwriting Agency, a Houston-based managing general agency specializing in medical malpractice insurance.Led by founder and Chairman James R. Brooks, Rockbridge Underwriting...
Nov 6 2012 // Berkley Technology Underwriters, LLC, a Minneapolis-based global technology underwriter, has been accredited as a Coverholder on behalf of Lloyd’s of London. As a Coverholder, Berkley Technology Underwriters is able...
Nov 6 2012 // Berkley Technology Underwriters, LLC, a Minneapolis-based global technology underwriter and part of the W.R. Berkley Group, announced that it has “been accredited as a Coverholder on behalf of Lloyd’s of...
Nov 5 2012 // RLI Corp. has acquired Rockbridge Underwriting Agency, a managing general agency specializing in medical malpractice insurance. Rockbridge Underwriting Agency is a Houston-based managing general agency specializing in...
Nov 5 2012 // A slow trend toward economic recovery in the United States may mean good news/bad news for insurance agents and brokers who handle commercial accounts with cargo and supply chain vulnerabilities.The good news is growth in...