All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 19 2009 // XL Insurance, the global insurance operations of XL Capital, announced “the strengthening of its equine capabilities” with the acquisition of an underwriting and claims team from London-based Unicorn...
Nov 18 2009 // Robert H. Pittinger has been appointed director of underwriting AXA Art Insurance Corporation.Pittinger brings more than 30 years of comprehensive industry expertise to the position, with experience in leadership, broker...
Nov 17 2009 // ACE Europeannounced the appointment of John Stanway as Corporate Property & Casualty Underwriting Manager for the UK North region and Graeme McGeachie as Corporate Property & Casualty Underwriting Manager for the...
Nov 16 2009 // Torus, has appointed David Whiting as Senior Casualty Reinsurance Underwriter, with immediate effect. He is based in Bermuda, and takes over responsibility for all of Torus Re’s casualty underwriting. Whiting reports...
Nov 15 2009 // Arthur Seifert has joined Southwest Insurance Partners Inc. (SWIP) as chief executive officer of Houston-based Bunker Hill Insurance Agency (BHIA), SWIP’s wholly owned underwriting agency subsidiary.Seifert has been...
Nov 13 2009 // ACE Tempest Re Europe has announced the appointment of David Mann in the newly created role of Senior Underwriter for Structured Risks.The appointment “further enhances ACE’s commitment to expanding its product...
Nov 6 2009 // Tony Campisi and Bill Kronenberg used to tease each other about merging their two Pennsylvania brokerage organizations. Just about a year ago, they started talking for real. On the last day of December, 2008, the deal was...
Nov 6 2009 // NAS Insurance Services has promoted Genevieve Alexander to Senior Underwriter. Ms. Alexander started at NAS six years ago as an underwriting assistant. She has underwritten a broad range of NAS products. More recently,...
Nov 1 2009 // Eagan Insurance Agency, based in Metairie, La., has added six insurance professionals to its staff.Joining the family business are Andrew Eagan and David Strassel, both members of the fifth generation of the Eagan family...
Nov 1 2009 // COPE is generally associated with property underwriting rather than as a risk class-based underwriting acronym. However, the traditional use and definition of COPE can be broadened to highlight the top concerns of...
Oct 29 2009 // Bermuda-based RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd., a leading nat cat property reinsurer, joined the comeback kids of 2009 with a robust performance in the third quarter. The Company reported net income available to common...
Oct 29 2009 // Steven D. Carroll, Robert Jarratt and Michael H. Lee have been elected as the newest members of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America’s (PCI) Board of Governors.Carroll, serves as executive vice...
Oct 28 2009 // A.M. Best Co. has assigned its Best’s Syndicate Ratings of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings of “a+” to Lloyd’s Syndicate 3623 and Lloyd’s Syndicate 3622, with stable...
Oct 28 2009 // Brian Schwarzbach has been named vice president of underwriting at North Carolina-based Atlantic Casualty Insurance Co., a member of the Strickland Insurance Group.Schwarzbach has been in the excess and surplus lines...
Oct 23 2009 // Rockhill Underwriting Management has established a new underwriting division focused on serving specific segments of the healthcare industry.The unit will be led by Rob Jurgel, who has 20 years of experience in the...
Oct 22 2009 // Bermuda-based Ironshore Inc. announced today that it has gained approval to write direct and facultative property business on behalf of its Pembroke Lloyd’s Syndicate effective October 1, 2009. The Pembroke team will...
Oct 22 2009 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a-” of Flagstone Reassurance Suisse SA and the ICR of “bbb-” of...
Oct 22 2009 // Travelers Companies Inc., the No. 1 publicly-traded U.S. property/ casualty insurer, said its quarterly profit more than quadrupled, strongly beating expectations, as a dearth of costly catastrophes left the company with...
Oct 16 2009 // Westrope General Insurance Agency, of Kansas City, Mo., has hired Chris Frost, who joins the company as a production underwriter in the company’s office in Irvine, Calif. Frost has experience underwriting all classes...
Oct 5 2009 // David Daniel was named chairman of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (Big “I”). He will lead the organization as chairman for the 2009-2010 term.Daniel is president of Daniel &...