All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Mar 10 2008 // Credit rating organization A.M. Best Co. issued a prediction for a stable outlook in the personal lines insurance segment this year, based on what it sees as continued operating profitability, strong balance sheets and...
Mar 7 2008 // Tustin, Calif.-based Yates & Associates has hired Cynthea Vaglienty as commercial transportation underwriter/broker. Vaglienty began her insurance career in 1995 at Roger Stone Insurance. After a few years on the...
Mar 5 2008 // ATLANTA, March 5, 2008 – Insurance Specialty Group, LLC (“ISG”) is the holding company, which owns Pacific Wholesale Insurance Brokers, LLC (“PWIB”). ISG is pleased to announce the change of...
Feb 28 2008 // ACE announced the appointment of two new Senior Underwriters in its Glasgow branch. Julie Dolla joins as Senior Property Underwriter from Zurich where she was a Property Underwriter within the corporate team. Gordon Knox...
Feb 28 2008 // West Chester, Pa.-based Venture Insurance Programs named Joseph Dolce as executive vice president, and Mary Teter as senior vice president of underwriting of Venture’s National Accounts Division.As executive vice...
Feb 26 2008 // Credit rating organization A.M. Best Co. issued a prediction for a stable outlook in the personal lines insurance segment this year, based on what it sees as continued operating profitability, strong balance sheets and...
Feb 24 2008 // PeopleManaging general agency and surplus lines wholesaler U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. named Terri Haselden vice president and manager of the Dallas Commercial Underwriting Department. Haselden, an experienced...
Feb 24 2008 // San Diego-based Barney & Barney LLC named Jim O’Connell principal. He also will serve as director of development for programs, specialty insurance solutions. In that role, he is responsible for both regional and...