All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 14 2006 // Spurred by intensifying competition, breakthroughs in analytics are transforming insurance markets, according to an industry leader. Sophisticated insurers able to harness large volumes of high-quality data to drive...
Nov 10 2006 // Niche insurance underwriter Britt/Paulk has opened a new office in Selbyville, Del. This new office will focus on underwriting the agency’s Timber Harvesting Program.The company also announced that three underwriters...
Nov 9 2006 // A bulletin on the Lloyd’s Website (www.lloyds.com) announced that its underwriters are “to provide the capacity for what is believed to be a world first for shipowners. The policy, Seacure60 is a cancellation...
Nov 7 2006 // Zurich Financial Services Group has announced the launch of an innovative approach to multinational insurance coverage, which it described as incorporating “all foreign premium tax and licensing obligations into a...
Nov 6 2006 // Lawyers professional liability, sometimes called legal malpractice, belongs with the selected “traditional” professional liability lines, such as physicians, accountants and architects/ engineers. Lawyers, in...
Nov 6 2006 // Lawyers professional liability, sometimes called legal malpractice, belongs with the selected “traditional” professional liability lines, such as physicians, accountants and architects/engineers. While...
Nov 6 2006 // Lawyers professional liability, sometimes called legal malpractice, belongs with the selected “traditional” professional liability lines, such as physicians, accountants and architects/ engineers. Lawyers, in...
Nov 6 2006 // With rapid innovations in the field of information technology, types of underwriting that didn’t exist a few decades ago have become prominent today. For example, companies engaging in information technology...
Nov 6 2006 // A fundamental problem exists with insurance scoring. The problem is that insurance scores and credit scores reflect correlation, but correlation does not necessarily indicate dependency upon which effective decisions can...
Nov 5 2006 // Lawyers’ professional liability is a bit different from other professional liability risks, and there appears to be interest in providing coverage for the risk.Back in the 1970s, lawyers professional liability used...
Nov 5 2006 // Lawyers professional liability, sometimes called legal malpractice, belongs with the selected “traditional” professional liability lines, such as physicians, accountants and architects/engineers. While...
Nov 5 2006 // Chris Hughes, with Swingle, Collins & Associates, is the new president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Dallas. Swingle Collins reported that Hughes joins officer ranks with firm president, Frank Swingle, whose...
Nov 5 2006 // Lawyers professional liability, sometimes called legal malpractice, belongs with the selected “traditional” professional liability lines, such as physicians, accountants and architects/ engineers. Lawyers, in...
Nov 5 2006 // Lawyers professional liability, sometimes called legal malpractice, belongs with the selected “traditional” professional liability lines, such as physicians, accountants and architects/ engineers. Lawyers, in...
Nov 5 2006 // With rapid innovations in the field of information technology, types of underwriting that didn’t exist a few decades ago have become prominent today. For example, companies engaging in information technology...
Nov 5 2006 // A fundamental problem exists with insurance scoring. The problem is that insurance scores and credit scores reflect correlation, but correlation does not necessarily indicate dependency upon which effective decisions can...
Nov 3 2006 // New underwriting data that insurers are expected to start using in 2007, along with new computer modeling techniques, will be presented at a national workshop on urban and multicultural markets Nov. 9 in Chicago.Texas...
Nov 3 2006 // Bermuda-based Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited has appointed Julian Cusack, currently its CFO, to the expanded role of Chairman and CEO of Aspen Insurance Limited (AIL), Bermuda. He will step down as CFO once a successor...
Oct 31 2006 // David Duclos, chief operating officer for XL Capital Ltd’s global insurance operations announced the appointment of Diana Gladwell as Gulf Regional underwriting manager for its Marine & Offshore Energy (MOE)...
Oct 30 2006 // The Boards of Directors of Catlin Group Limited and Wellington Underwriting Plc have agreed on the terms of a recommended Offer to be made by Catlin for the whole of the issued and to be issued share capital of Wellington....