All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Feb 24 2008 // Lloyd’s of London has published its fourth annual underwriting survey, which reveals that “managing the insurance cycle” remains the most important issue for the industry in 2008 with 93 percent of...
Feb 20 2008 // According to a recently conducted survey of 138 underwriters, Lloyd’s found that the instability of global financial markets is the single factor that will have the most impact on the insurance industry during 2008....
Feb 20 2008 // Bruce hayden has joined the online insurer Berkley Net Underwriters in its business development unit. As director of Specialty Markets, Hayden will lead BerkleyNet’s effort to expand its focus on specialty niche...
Feb 19 2008 // Lloyd’s has published its fourth annual underwriting survey, which reveals that “managing the insurance cycle remains the most important issue for the industry in 2008 with 93 percent of underwriters believing...
Feb 15 2008 // Bordentown, New Jersey-based New Day Underwriting Managers LLC has named Sharron Gaskins to the position of account executive. Gaskins joins New Day Underwriting Managers with more than 18 years of underwriting services...
Feb 15 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has issued a blanket bulletin outlining the rating actions, which it notes are “mostly unfavorable,” on several U.S. mortgage insurers and their core and dependent...
Feb 14 2008 // Managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. announced it has named Terri Haselden vice president and manager of the Dallas Commercial Underwriting Department.Haselden, an experienced...
Feb 13 2008 // Thomas Newgarden has joined Seattle-based Safeco as senior vice president of underwriting for Safeco Personal Insurance. Previously, Newgarden was senior vice president and chief underwriting officer of AIG Private Client...
Feb 11 2008 // Risk Placement Services, Inc., a national excess and surplus lines wholesaler, announced that it has promoted T.C. Anderson, IV, to underwriter/broker at the company’s office in Scottsdale, Ariz. Since joining RPS in...
Feb 10 2008 // With the 2008 legislative sessions now in full swing, many states are taking another look at the issue of insurers using credit scoring to underwrite or rate auto or homeowners insurance. Insurance trade groups are...
Feb 10 2008 // Former Ace Ltd. CEO and Chairman Brian Duperreault has stepped down from the Bermuda-based insurer to assume to role of president and CEO of Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc.Duperreault replaces Michael Cherkasky, who...
Feb 10 2008 // The Nonprofits Insurance Alliance Group in Santa Cruz, Calif., appointed Kim Aday to vice president finance/treasurer. Aday joined the group in 1997 in the position of accountant. In early 2001, she was promoted to...