All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 11 2008 // Steep declines in underwriting profits hurt bottom lines for property casualty insurers, which saw their 2007 profits slip slightly from a year earlier, a new report from three industry groups says.The industry’s net...
Apr 9 2008 // Raj Manghani has been appointed vice president of underwriting solutions product management at Newark, Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions (RMS). In this role, Manghani will lead RMS’ efforts to help insurers use...
Apr 8 2008 // Florida-based Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE) plans to expand into the Florida Panhandle, according to Ross Buchmueller, president and chief executive officer, PURE Risk Management LLC .PURE will offer...
Apr 8 2008 // Hull & Co. Inc. has acquired substantially all of the assets of Missoula, Mont.-based Big Sky Underwriters Inc. “The people of Big Sky are well respected in the Northwest marketplace,” said Bob McGrew,...
Apr 3 2008 // The Bermuda-based Argo Group International Holdings has made an offer to acquire Heritage Underwriting Agency, Plc, a successful Lloyd’s insurer.The transaction is subject to “relevant legal and regulatory...
Apr 3 2008 // California-based Monarch E&S Insurance Services announced the return of Dina Dryden as a senior commercial underwriter for the Property & Casualty Department. She will work from the San Diego office and will be...
Apr 3 2008 // Burns & Wilcox announces that Hariett Rose has rejoined the company as a commercial underwriting manager at its Cleveland, Ohio office.Rose first started at Burns & Wilcox in 1997 as a senior underwriter. Most...
Mar 28 2008 // Newark, Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions has launched a probabilistic model to help account underwriters quantify and manage exposure to fire risk. Aimed at primary commercial and specialty insurers and reinsurers,...
Mar 26 2008 // Encino, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services has appointed Sandra Casas as underwriter and facility manager for its technology products. Casas brings a broad underwriting experience in technology errors and omissions, cyber...
Mar 24 2008 // Kenneth A. Bowles as been named the 2008 PIA National Professional Agent of the Year by the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents.Bowles was honored for his work on behalf of professional insurance agents,...
Mar 24 2008 // Burns & Wilcox announced that Michael Bain has joined the company’s Salt Lake City office as a commercial underwriter. Bains brings seven years of industry experience. Most recently, he worked at Colonial...
Mar 24 2008 // McQueary Henry Bowles Troy hired Jimmy Balagia as senior vice president in the firm’s property and casualty group in Austin.Balagia has 30 years of experience as a property and casualty broker/consultant and...
Mar 20 2008 // New York, NY- March 20, 2008: Pacific Underwriters announced that it has partnered with Darwin Professional Underwriters to place management liability insurance for private company and not-for-profit risks utilizing...
Mar 19 2008 // Swett & Crawford appointed Bonnie DeVries as a transportation underwriter, located in the Dallas office. DeVries has extensive experience in transportation underwriting, specializing in local, intermediate and long...
Mar 19 2008 // Burns & Wilcox named Emily Westra as a personal lines underwriter in the company’s Denver office. Westra will be responsible for developing and expanding the office’s personal lines business both locally...
Mar 14 2008 // Burns & Wilcox has promoted Kathryn Hardy promoted to personal lines underwriter at its Sacramento, Calif., office. She joined the company in 2002 as an assistant underwriter. Hardy will be responsible for growing the...
Mar 11 2008 // XL Insurance, the global insurance operation of Bermuda’s XL Capital Ltd., has named John Glancy to the newly created position of Chief Underwriting Officer. He will report to David Duclos, Chief Executive Officer...
Mar 11 2008 // Dallas-based U.S. Risk Underwriters, a subsidiary of U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc., announced it has named Lorna Greenwood program manager.In this position, Greenwood will specialize in creating, launching and promoting...
Mar 10 2008 // Willis Group Holdings, the global insurance broker reports it has extended the employment agreement with Joseph J. Plumeri, its chairman and chief executive officer.The agreement, which was originally scheduled to expire...
Mar 10 2008 // Willis Group Holdings, the global insurance broker, reports it has extended the employment agreement with Joseph J. Plumeri, its chairman and chief executive officer.The agreement, which was originally scheduled to expire...