All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 6 2007 // Today’s energy industry is being challenged by climate changes, market fluctuations, business mergers, natural disasters, terrorism, war, political risk, increasing regulatory and financial scrutiny and evolving...
Aug 6 2007 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson takes over the reins of PCI...
Aug 6 2007 // The world has experienced rapid and profound changes in recent years, and the energy industry has been no exception. Climate changes (including global warming), market fluctuations, ever-increasing business mergers and...
Aug 6 2007 // If ever there was a time for insurance agents to get out and go looking for a better errors and omissions policy, this is the season.Agents who do will come across several admitted carriers that are welcoming new business...
Aug 2 2007 // Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. announced that Hans-Joachim Guenther would join Endurance Worldwide Insurance Limited in London as Chief Underwriting Officer for Reinsurance and Head of Reinsurance for Europe. He has 19...
Jul 26 2007 // TAPCO Underwriters, Inc., in Burlington, N.C., reported that Ken Schneider and Bill McCord have joined the company as vice presidents of marketing and underwriting.Schneider and McCord join TAPCO with decades of experience...
Jul 26 2007 // USF Insurance Co. recently announced that Ken Rice has been promoted to director of underwriting. Rice joined USF in July 2006 as underwriting manager, a role he held until his promotion. Previously, Rice was a...
Jul 23 2007 // Wholesale insurance broker Connecticut Underwriters has welcomed Tom Crawford as its new product development manager based in its Middletown, Conn. office.Crawford has 26 years experience in the insurance industry where he...
Jul 23 2007 // Taking the time to qualify a responsive and capable carrier with energy industry-specific expertise, upfront, before scrambling to line up quotes or compare policy parameters, is worth the investment.The world has...
Jul 23 2007 // Taking the time to qualify a responsive and capable carrier with energy industry-specific expertise, upfront, before scrambling to line up quotes or compare policy parameters, is worth the investment.The world has...
Jul 23 2007 // The world has experienced rapid and profound changes in recent years, and the energy industry has been no exception. Climate changes (including global warming), market fluctuations, ever-increasing business mergers and...
Jul 23 2007 // Agency-company relationships are a softer issue in business today, and not something independent agencies think about all the time, according to Frank Kortarba, president and CEO of Golden Eagle Insurance in San Diego....
Jul 20 2007 // The Republic Group, a regional insurer based in Dallas, announced that Jay C. Williams has joined the company as its new Personal Lines Underwriting Process manager.In this newly created position, Williams will manage the...
Jul 16 2007 // HDR Insurance Services in Sacramento, Calif., has named Leslie Wilson underwriting supervisor responsible for underwriting and profitable new business production. Leslie rejoined HDR in February 2007 after 2.5 years with...
Jul 13 2007 // Chris Scott has joined Dallas-based PWIB Texas as broker/underwriter, the company announced. Scott has been a broker since 2002 and previously was associated with other leading insurance wholesalers in the Dallas...
Jul 13 2007 // The Arkansas Insurance Department issued a directive to property and casualty carriers issuing policies containing “occupancy” requirements in their underwriting standards that could adversely impact insurance...
Jul 11 2007 // Missouri-based Rockhill Underwriting Management, LLC recently announced that Matthew J. Semeraro has joined the organization as vice president of Surety. Semeraro will be located in the Atlanta office in this new role and...
Jul 9 2007 // The U.S. property/casualty industry followed record profits in 2006 with continued favorable trends in first quarter 2007, posting net income after taxes of $16.7 billion. An underwriting gain of $8.0 billion and net...
Jul 5 2007 // Bermuda-based Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited announced that it will enter the Professional Liability Insurance market in September 2007 through Aspen Insurance UK Limited.“Underwriting will take place solely from...
Jul 2 2007 // But overall, construction market looks ‘optimistic,’ Willis exec saysToday’s construction underwriters and their claim departments may not be following the same blueprint on issues of coverage...