All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 23 2010 // Minneapolis-based MMIC Group has promoted Jeff Pearson to vice president of underwriting. Pearson joined MMIC as senior underwriting manager in 2003. He has worked in the insurance industry for more for 22 years. Pearson...
Mar 22 2010 // The Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters Society Golden Gate Chapter has awarded Janis Dunivin of Wells Fargo Insurance Services of California with its Insurance Person of the Year Award, and State Farm with its...
Mar 19 2010 // Brown & Brown Inc. will acquire New Jersey-based Excel Underwriters Alliance Inc. and Spirit Underwriters Inc., the Florid-based brokerage announced.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Excel and Spirit offer...
Mar 15 2010 // Starr Indemnity & Liability Co., Inc., an indirectly wholly owned subsidiary of Starr International Company, Inc., and Chubb & Son, a division of Federal Insurance Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Chubb, have...
Mar 11 2010 // London-based specialty insurer Hiscox, which launched a significantly expanded U.S. presence in 2006, saw gross profits reach record levels ($481 million) in 2009. In this exclusive interview with Insurance Journal, Hiscox...
Mar 11 2010 // E&S brokerage firm Connecticut Underwriters has named Darren Valencia as director of its professional lines business. Valencia has 10 years of experience underwriting and brokering professional liability coverage, and...
Mar 9 2010 // Specialist Lloyd’s insurer, Jubilee Managing Agency Limited, has been appointed to provide dedicated amateur motor sport personal accident coverage for amateur race and rally drivers who hold UK Motor Sport...
Mar 7 2010 // Thomas J. Schaffler has been named president of Lockton Cos. employee benefits practice in Chicago. He joined Lockton more than 10 years ago as executive vice president and producer and serves on the Chicago executive...
Mar 7 2010 // The Main Street America Group announced that Steve Peeters, who most recently was president and chief operating officer of Jacksonville, Fla.-based Zurich Insurance Services, has joined The Main Street America Group as...
Mar 7 2010 // Lockton Dunning Benefits appointed Sheri Pixley to the newly created position of executive vice president and practice leader of the Dallas-based health and welfare practice. Pixley has been involved in consulting with...
Mar 5 2010 // Singapore’s biggest sovereign wealth fund GIC and Qatar Holding LLC have committed to underwrite a significant portion of UK Prudential’s $20 billion rights issue.GIC is an existing shareholder, with a 0.5...
Mar 4 2010 // Max Capital Group Ltd. and Harbor Point Limited announced that they “have unanimously approved a definitive amalgamation agreement for a merger of equals.” Both companies are based in Bermuda. Max Capital is a...
Feb 23 2010 // The founder and retired chairman and CEO of the world’s largest insurance broker, Aon, has revealed the management team and a second subsidiary for his new global specialty insurance operation whose first company was...
Feb 21 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) on Feb. 2 presented its 2010 Independent Leadership Award to Joe Straus III, speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. The Independent Leadership Award was presented...
Feb 19 2010 // Zurich has signed on to underwrite Venture Insurance Programs’ Preferred Club Program, a new offering designed for private and semiprivate golf and country clubs, as well as golf resorts, daily-fee courses,...
Feb 16 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the Best’s Syndicate Rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a+” of Lloyd’s Syndicate 382, which is managed by Hardy Underwriting...
Feb 12 2010 // American International Group Inc. turned down JPMorgan’s attempts to get in on the estimated $10 billion Hong Kong IPO of its Asian life insurance unit, sources involved with the deal said on Friday, in a snub partly...
Feb 7 2010 // Willis Group Holdings extended the contract of its chairman and CEO Joseph J. Plumeri until July 7, 2013. His previous agreement was set to expire on the date of the company’s annual meeting in April 2011.Global...
Feb 7 2010 // Main Street business often means different things to different people, but it generally refers to small commercial establishments that would be found in towns and villages across the United States. The Small Business...
Feb 5 2010 // Torus Insurance announced that Louis Scott has joined its Power & Utilities team in London with immediate effect. He will report to Global Head of Power & Utilities, Ben Wilson, working closely with the now...