All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 15 2012 // American Underwriting Managers, a surplus lines MGA with offices in Southlake and San Antonio, Texas, has added Gay Aulenbacher, as vice-president, director of Marketing. Aulenbacher has served in the insurance agency and...
Jun 13 2012 // Arch Reinsurance Europe Underwriting Limited announced that Maamoun Rajeh will be appointed as the company’s President and CEO as of July 1, 2012. He will succeed Helmut Söhler, who will assume the position of Vice...
Jun 13 2012 // Michigan-based Accident Fund Holdings Inc. has appointed William G. Carney as chief underwriting officer.Carney recently joined Accident Fund Holdings’ executive team and is responsible for overseeing the...
Jun 11 2012 // London-based CFC Underwriting has launched an excess underwriting capability. CFC is a specialist lines underwriting agency backed by 17 Lloyd’s syndicates. It has clients in over 50 countries around the world and...
Jun 11 2012 // XL Group announced that its Political Risk and Trade Credit (PRTC) business has received approval from Lloyd’s to write Political Risk and Trade Credit risks using the Lloyd’s platform via XL Group’s...
Jun 7 2012 // The MEMIC Group, a workers’ compensation insurer headquartered in Portland, Maine, has appointed two senior underwriters: Mark Darragh for New Jersey and surrounding areas operations and Katrinka Casamassa for...
Jun 7 2012 // Atlas Financial Holdings, Inc.has started selling its core commercial automobile insurance products in Utah, becoming the 31st state where Atlas is actively underwriting. Atlas’ insurance subsidiaries, American...
Jun 4 2012 // Rockhill Insurance Group has expanded its product offerings to include primary general liability. The new underwriting unit will be led by Bob Stone, who will be based in Dallas, Texas. Stone will focus on building a...
Jun 1 2012 // San Diego, Calif.-based Atlas General Insurance Services LLC hired Kevin Rodgers as a senior underwriter. Rodgers comes to Atlas with underwriting experience from various insurance companies while working in workers’...
May 31 2012 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. has appointed Eric Shanks to the position of senior vice president, personal insurance underwriting executive. Shanks will be based in Fireman’s Fund’s Chicago office. In his...
May 22 2012 // Sarasota, Fla.-headquartered property/casualty insurer FCCI Insurance Group (FCCI) recently expanded into Maryland and has hired Jeanine Ferritor as a senior marketing underwriter to develop FCCI’s independent agency...
May 22 2012 // W. R. Berkley Corp. has formed a new marine division of its Berkley Offshore Underwriting Managers operating unit. Through its New York office, Berkley Offshore will underwrite a full spectrum of marine hull and liability...
May 21 2012 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a” of Guernsey-based Jupiter Insurance Limited, both with...
May 17 2012 // S.H. Smith & Co. Inc., a wholesaler and managing general agent headquartered in Hartford, Conn., appointed Tom Ferracci as underwriter/manager of workers’ compensation. Ferracci comes from The Hartford Insurance...
May 16 2012 // UK-based Aqua Underwriting announced the launch of a range of niche commercial combined products exclusively for brokers, building on its success with high net worth (HNW) products in the personal lines market.Aqua said...
May 14 2012 // Cayman Islands-based Greenlight Capital Re, a specialist property and casualty reinsurer, has appointed John H. Drake, Jr. as Vice President, Business Development. He will be responsible for maintaining productive client...
May 14 2012 // “Broker only” commercial underwriting specialist Evolution Underwriting announced that it has “entered into an exclusive underwriting and distribution partnership with the Beazley Group.Under the terms of...
May 11 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength ratings (FSR) of ‘A+’ (Superior) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “aa” of the property/casualty subsidiaries of The Travelers Companies, Inc....
May 7 2012 // Berkshire Hathaway said it generated $3.245 billion in net income overall, up from last year’s net income of $1.511 billion last year in the quarter. Last year’s results were hurt by $1.1 billion in insurance...
May 7 2012 // The Chubb Corporation reported $506 million in net income for the 2012 first quarter, down slightly — 0.59% — from $509 million income reported one year ago.The insurer’s underwriting profit improved...