All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 19 2007 // A.M. Best has just released a study of the Canadian insurance market, which found that the country’s P/C insurers enjoyed “another solid year,” from profitable underwriting aided by investment income and...
Sep 13 2007 // Farmington Hills, Mich.-based Burns & Wilcox has appointed Micki Jordan and Kristen Monroy to positions at each of the company’s Nevada locations. Jordan, formerly an underwriting manager in the Denver office,...
Sep 7 2007 // Chatsworth, Calif.-based The Harry W. Gorst, Co. promoted Nelson Oliva to underwriter for the personal lines department. Oliva joined the firm in 2004 as assistant underwriter and reported directly to Bryan Clark, senior...
Sep 5 2007 // XL Insurance, the global insurance operations of Bermuda’s XL Capital Ltd, has announced an increase of its underwriting capacity for construction projects, from $40 million to $100 million per project. John...
Sep 5 2007 // Dallas-based U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. named Quinton Goss a broker and inland marine underwriter at U.S. Risk Brokers, the company’s wholesale excess and surplus lines insurance brokerage operations. He will be...
Sep 3 2007 // Marsh UK has issued a warning to the European financial services sector, including insurance companies, hedge funds, banks and ratings agencies, that “they may be exposed to greater directors’ and...
Sep 3 2007 // Marsh UK has issued a warning to the European financial services sector, including insurance companies, hedge funds, banks and ratings agencies, that “they may be exposed to greater directors’ and...
Sep 3 2007 // As an insurance industry professional, you know that we have a big job to do when it comes to recruiting talented individuals to this business. A career in insurance may not be an obvious choice for college students who...
Sep 3 2007 // As an insurance industry professional, you know that we have a big job to do when it comes to recruiting talented individuals to this business. A career in insurance may not be an obvious choice for college students who...
Sep 3 2007 // Marsh UK recently issued a warning to European financial services sectors, including insurance companies, hedge funds, banks and ratings agencies, that “they may be exposed to greater Directors’ and...
Sep 3 2007 // As an insurance industry professional, you know that we have a big job to do when it comes to recruiting talented individuals to this business. A career in insurance may not be an obvious choice for college students who...
Sep 3 2007 // As an insurance industry professional, you know that we have a big job to do when it comes to recruiting talented individuals to this business. A career in insurance may not be an obvious choice for college students who...
Sep 3 2007 // Richard E. Meuret has been appointed vice president and manager, Field Operations Analysis, for Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company operations. Meuret will be based in the insurer’s Boston home office and...
Aug 30 2007 // Novae Group plc has appointed Bill Edrich as underwriting director of the Group’s insurance company Novae Insurance Company Limited (NICL).He currently serves as the Group’s medical malpractice underwriting...
Aug 30 2007 // Yates & Associates of Tustin, Calif., is expanding its transportation division and adding Mike Thompson as underwriter. Thompson will be responsible for underwriting and issuing commercial auto applications. Thompson...
Aug 30 2007 // Diane Lawrence has been promoted to underwriting manager for California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund. Lawrence began her State Fund career as a marketing consultant at the organization’s San Francisco...
Aug 30 2007 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes says four insurers not now writing auto insurance in the state have said they will enter if her plan to allow competitive pricing goes forward.Burnes is not naming the...
Aug 29 2007 // Auto insurers in Massachusetts would not be allowed to use socioeconomic factors in competitively pricing or underwriting policies under a regulation proposed by Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes.The draft regulation...
Aug 21 2007 // Marsh UK issued a warning to the European financial services sector, including insurance companies, hedge funds, banks and ratings agencies, that “they may be exposed to greater Directors’ and Officers’...
Aug 20 2007 // Professional Underwriters of Exton, Pa., named Gene Mammone as production underwriter, Municipal Programs. Mammone will be responsible for building the municipality segment of Professional Underwriters and its’...