All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 5 2011 // Holly Foxen Wells has been promoted to marketing and public relations manager of San Diego, Calif.-based Atlas General Insurance Services.She will lead the marketing team to enhance Atlas’ brand strategy and customer...
Dec 5 2011 // Agents who use an organized, straightforward method when submitting program business to market will benefit by gaining faster response times from carriers and the potential to create new programs.Kenneth Robinette, of...
Dec 1 2011 // Michael Sweeney plans to retire as CEO of United States Aviation Underwriters (USAU) at the end of the year, parent company General Re Corp. in Stamford, Conn. said.Sweeney will continue as chairman until April 30, 2012....
Nov 30 2011 // Appalachian Underwriters, Inc. (AUI) will be the exclusively endorsed workers’ compensation provider for the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia. This organization includes 660 member agencies.AUI will utilize...
Nov 23 2011 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has promoted Jeff Lentz from senior manager of underwriting and marketing to vice president of underwriting. In his new role, Lentz will be responsible for directing underwriting policies and...
Nov 22 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to B- (Fair) from B+ (Good) and issuer credit rating to “bb-” from “bbb-” of Northwest G.F. Mutual Insurance Co. based in Eureka, S.D. The...
Nov 21 2011 // The insurance industry is paying increasing attention to what people and businesses post on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.Already, scouring the social network pages of insureds is a common...
Nov 21 2011 // Holborn Corp., an independent reinsurance brokerage firm in New York, appointed two executives: Wesley Zeliff as vice president and Shinji Ueda as assistant vice president. Zeliff comes from U.S. RE Corporation, where he...
Nov 21 2011 // Valencia, Calif.-based Petersen International Underwriters has named John J. Russo as legal director.Russo will assist in monitoring compliance and current legislation in various states, maintaining surplus lines...
Nov 21 2011 // Cincinnati-based Great American Insurance Group’s corporate claims division hired Emmet M. Murphy as vice president responsible for the environmental claims unit.Murphy joins Great American from The Hartford and its...
Nov 18 2011 // Atlas General Insurance Services has hired Catherine Baker as a senior underwriter. Baker comes to San Diego, Calif.-based Atlas from The Republic Group in Dallas, Texas, where she served for three years as a Multiline...
Nov 18 2011 // Catlin Group Limited has announced the formation of a strategic partnership with China Reinsurance (Group) Corporation (China Re) that will result in the establishment of a special purpose syndicate at Lloyd’s of...
Nov 17 2011 // XL Group’s surety unit is expanding with the appointment of James Hoyas as vice president and executive underwriter. He is based in XL’s Baltimore office and reports to Bill Mills, senior vice president of...
Nov 17 2011 // Atlas General Insurance Services has promoted Steve Boyd to underwriting manager. In his expanded role, Boyd will continue to underwrite while contributing to program management at Atlas. Boyd, who served as a senior...
Nov 16 2011 // Lloyd’s syndicate Ascot Underwriting appointed Dawnmarie Black as senior vice president based in Hartford, Connecticut. She will take on her new role beginning December. Black joins Ascot from facultative broker Aon...
Nov 14 2011 // Michael Gates has joined Chatsworth, Calif.-based Harry W. Gorst Co. Inc. as a senior underwriter in its personal lines department in Mission Viejo, Calif. Gates comes from a national wholesale managing general agent,...
Nov 9 2011 // Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), the global specialty lines division of Liberty Mutual Group, has opened an excess and surplus (E&S) property operation in Los Angeles to better serve the West Coast wholesale...
Nov 7 2011 // Westfield Insurance, headquartered in Westfield, Ohio, selected Dennis Baus to lead the company’s surety operations. Baus assumes the national surety leader responsibilities on Jan. 1, 2012, replacing Rick Kinnaird...
Nov 7 2011 // The insurance industry is paying increasing attention to what people and businesses post on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.Already, scouring the social network pages of insureds is a common...
Nov 7 2011 // Jim Donelon has been re-elected commissioner at the Louisiana Department of Insurance. Donelon, a Republican from Metairie, on Oct. 22 defeated Democrat Donald Hodge. Donelon has been insurance commissioner since...