All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 10 2009 // Bermuda-based Validus Holdings, Ltd. Has appointed Charles F.A. Cooper as the Head of North American Property Catastrophe Reinsurance Underwriting of Validus’ wholly-owned subsidiary Validus Reinsurance, Ltd.,...
Sep 10 2009 // Liberty International Underwriters (LIU) announced two new executive appointments in the company’s Primary Casualty and Marine units. LIU named Peter Donovan as vice president – Primary Casualty. Donovan is a...
Sep 7 2009 // ProMutual ProMutual Group has promoted José R. “Joe” Zorola to vice president of underwriting. Zorola previously served as director of underwriting for the Boston-based medical liability insurer. In this new...
Sep 7 2009 // Texas-based Specialty Insurance Managers Inc. appointed several new vice presidents.Karen Ashton was named vice president of the Arlington, Texas, branch. Bonnie Stalkfleet is now vice president of the Granbury branch....
Sep 7 2009 // Markel Corp. has promoted Henry Lopez to president for Markel Midwest. Lopez has served as executive vice president for the Midwest region since November 2008. He joined Markel in 1995 as a financial analyst and has held a...
Sep 2 2009 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a” of the Bermuda-based Catlin Insurance Company Ltd (CICL), Catlin Insurance Company...
Aug 20 2009 // Endorsements to the commercial general liability (CGL) policy are highly specialized. A high percentage are either exclusionary or extend protection to distinct classes of additional insureds. Most of the remaining...
Aug 20 2009 // Louisiana-based insurance wholesaler, Specialty Risk Associates Inc., announced several changes to its management team that will become effective Sept. 1.Thomas Garland was named chief operating officer. Garland joined...
Aug 18 2009 // The Dallas office of Swett & Crawford has added Eric Johnson and Ryan Moore to its team of insurance professionals.Johnson joins as an underwriter with Swett & Crawford’s Dallas contract unit. He has 21...
Aug 18 2009 // London-based Markel International has appointed James Leach as contingency underwriter to develop its diverse specialty division. He joins Markel from Sirius International where he worked for two years becoming assistant...
Aug 13 2009 // Zurich Financial Services Group (Zurich) has appointed Alan Fairhead (50, British citizen), currently chief underwriting officer for Global Corporate, to the position of chief underwriting officer for Europe General...
Aug 11 2009 // ProMutual Group has promoted José R. “Joe” Zorola to vice president of underwriting.Zorola previously served as director of underwriting for the Boston-based medical liability insurer. In this new capacity,...
Aug 11 2009 // Markel International has appointed Robert Ashby as specie underwriter to boost its marine and energy division. Ashby has worked for nearly a decade in specie underwriting. Most recently, he spent six years at QBE where he...
Aug 10 2009 // Novato, Calif.-based Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. is enhancing its Entertainment division with the addition of Jerid Schmickle, who specializes in assessing the risks of touring musical artists and their concert...
Aug 10 2009 // Delos Insurance Group and Avoca Insurance Holdings have launched a joint venture focused on underwriting excess and specialty lines.The newly formed, Boston-based underwriting management company will be known as Naxos...
Aug 6 2009 // The Arkansas Insurance Department has posted directives on its Web site that detail compliance requirements for property casualty insurance providers in that state.The insurance department noted that while Arkansas state...
Aug 5 2009 // Financial institutions faced an average premium hike of 15 percent in the second quarter of 2009, as insurers seek to make up for underwriting losses resulting from a deluge of credit crunch-related Professional Indemnity...
Aug 5 2009 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group announced that its Alternative Markets Division has expanded its underwriting to include single entity captives.Highlights of Great American’s single entity...
Aug 4 2009 // Okemos, MI., August 4 2009 – NetRate Systems, Inc. (Okemos, MI) is pleased to announce implementation of the NetRate Commercial Lines Rating System at Trinity Underwriting Managers, Inc., of Pooler, GA. Trinity...
Aug 4 2009 // New Day Underwriting Managers has appointed Mitch Cohen assistant vice president.He has 27 years of experience as a structural engineer and construction manager, environmental contractor, environmental consultant and...