All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 19 2009 // Dallas, Texas-based wholesale insurance broker, Van Wagoner Companies Inc., has promoted Amber L. Browning to vice president and appointed Chip Shattuck as a commercial lines underwriter.Browning has been with Van Wagoner...
Jun 9 2009 // Shreveport, La.-based Ark-La-Tex Underwriters Inc. (ALTU) announced that Jim Fenley has joined the firm as marketing director. Fenley has more than 30 years of experience with insurance wholesalers in Texas. He has held...
Jun 8 2009 // Bermuda’s Catlin Group Limited has promoted Simon Shrimpton to senior marine hull underwriter in its London office. He will head Catlin’s six-person team, underwriting hull business on behalf of the Catlin...
Jun 4 2009 // The San Gabriel Valley, Calif., Chapter of the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters Society recently elected its 2009-2010 officers. The chapter services about 100 members who live or work in the San Gabriel Valley and...
Jun 2 2009 // Demographic changes are impacting the underwriting and pricing of many insurance products and the implications of these changes are creating new challenges and opportunities for property/casualty insurers, according to...
Jun 1 2009 // TD Insurance Inc. has hired Linda Bogardus as an account manager in the Core Division of Commercial Lines. Bogardus, who is based in Burlington, Vermont, will oversee marketing and servicing large commercial insurance...
Jun 1 2009 // Neal S. Wolin has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In February, Wolin was named deputy assistant to the President and deputy counsel to the...
May 20 2009 // Americas Insurance Co., which took on nearly 1,000 homeowner policies that had been covered by Louisiana’s insurer of last resort, said it is entering the voluntary homeowners’ market. The company said it...
May 19 2009 // A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to positive from stable for the issuer credit ratings (ICR) of Travelers Group, its P/C members and affiliate, Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America (TCSA) and TCSA’s...
May 15 2009 // XL Insurance, the global insurance operations of XL Capital, has announced the hiring of three additional underwriters for its London-based aviation business.“The London team will be headed by Simon Murray as...
May 13 2009 // Safety National has opened regional underwriting office in New York, and has tapped industry veterans Sharon Herschlag and Dennis Zervos as regional underwriting managers.The company says the new office builds on its plans...
May 11 2009 // Liberty International Underwriters, a division of Liberty Mutual Group, named Tim Kania as senior vice president of construction for its North and South America operations. An insurance executive for more than 20 years,...
May 11 2009 // Most insurance professionals detest a soft market due to the increase in competition, unreasonably low pricing and increased market vulnerability. Some, however, may appreciate a softening precisely because of the change...
May 11 2009 // Chicago-based Specialty Underwriters’ Alliance Inc. reported that although net income was down in the first quarter of 2009 compared to the same period a year ago, gross written premiums rose to $29 million compared...
May 8 2009 // Syndicate 382 – Hardy Underwriting 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,...
May 6 2009 // Bordentown, New Jersey-based New Day Underwriting has promoted John Heft to the newly created position of director – Real Estate Practice. Heft will lead the group’s focus on providing insurance and risk...
Apr 27 2009 // The Bermuda-based Max Capital Group announced the appointment of two senior underwriters – Clive Hatto and Hugh Sprowson – by Max at Lloyd’s Ltd, the Lloyd’s managing agent for Syndicates 1400, 2525...
Apr 22 2009 // Specialty Underwriters’ Alliance Inc. (SUA), headquartered in Chicago, reported that it has distributed a letter to stockholders in response to the proxy contest being waged by Hallmark Financial Services Inc., which...
Apr 20 2009 // The Association of Professional Insurance Women Inc. (APIW) has selected Chubb Group Executive Vice President Janice Tomlinson as its “Insurance Woman of the Year.” Tomlinson, who has been employed by Chubb...
Apr 20 2009 // Thoits Insurance of San Jose, Calif., promoted Paul Saich to CEO. Saich replaces Don Way, who had been with Thoits for 44 years, and will remain as chairman of the board. Saich joined Thoits Insurance in 1996 and most...