All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 3 2006 // For 317 years London’s insurance market in general and Lloyd’s in particular has been adapting to changing conditions both locally and globally. It’s never been easy, but the fact that it has happened at...
Apr 3 2006 // It hasn’t been healthy. In fact, the directors and officers liability insurance market for super-sized Enrons, WorldComs and the Fortune 1000 has been unhealthy for some time.Looking at the market’s...
Apr 3 2006 // Won’t renew or insure new homeowners of commercial policies8 Sirius International withdraws Florida application Won’t do business as an eligible surplus lines insurer8 Florida AG files complaint against...
Apr 3 2006 // Bermuda-based United America Indemnity Ltd. has appointed Robert Cohen president and CEO of its subsidiary, Penn Independent Corporation.Cohen has been acting president and CEO since November 2005. From 1992, he was a...
Apr 3 2006 // News CurrentsPoe Financial Group has notified Florida agents for thousands of policyholders that its South-ern Family Insurance Company will no longer renew or insure new homeowner or commercial lines business. The company...
Apr 3 2006 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation named Kristin Wall, president and chief operating officer, to replace Steve Cavanaugh as chief executive officer.Cavanaugh tendered his resignation at the March 16 Board of...
Apr 3 2006 // The London insurance market: The City and the regulatorsFor 317 years London’s insurance market in general and Lloyd’s in particular has been adapting to changing conditions both locally and globally....
Apr 3 2006 // News CurrentsA U.S. consumer group has made claims that Geico Corp. uses rate-making methods that directly base eligibility and premiums solely upon the educational background and occupation of consumers. The Consumer...
Mar 31 2006 // Bass Underwriters’ Texas office announced the launch of a new online program to assist agents in placing small artisan contractors, including those working on home construction.The company said the easy-to-use...
Mar 30 2006 // In his keynote address to the delegates at Aon’s 9th Energy Insurance Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Rolf Tolle, Lloyd’s Franchise Performance Director, told his audience that the Lloyd’s market is...
Mar 29 2006 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty and the Office of Insurance Regulation have reviewed and approved substantive amendments to the plans of operation for Florida Comprehensive Health Association and Florida...
Mar 29 2006 // In a letter to the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and to the New Jersey Citizens United Reciprocal Exchange (CURE), Maryland Insurance Commissioner R. Steven Orr dismissed allegations by those organizations that...
Mar 28 2006 // ACE Westchester Specialty Group, the U.S.-based wholesale-focused property and casualty operation of the ACE Group of Companies, appointed Joseph Casey as senior vice president, Management Liability for its Professional...
Mar 28 2006 // The Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters Society’s California El Camino, Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Chapters are hosting a Contractual Risk Transfer seminar on Thursday, April 20 in Pasadena, Calif. The...
Mar 27 2006 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has affirmed the financial strength rating of “A-” (Excellent) and assigned an issuer credit rating of “a-” to The Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association (Bermuda)...
Mar 24 2006 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has affirmed the financial strength rating of “A-” (Excellent) and assigned an issuer credit rating of “a-” to the U.K.-based Steamship Mutual Underwriting...
Mar 22 2006 // Chicago-based the Urban Insurance Partners Institute said it has passed another milestone in its pioneering study to develop a new underwriting methodology for assessing risk in the rapidly growing underbanked urban and...
Mar 21 2006 // A U.S. consumer group has made claims that Geico Corp. uses rate-making methods that directly base eligibility and premiums solely upon the educational background and occupation of consumers.The Consumer Federation of...
Mar 21 2006 // Bermuda-based Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. announced that Christopher L. Harris has been appointed Chief Underwriting & Risk Officer of the Company and of Montpelier Reinsurance Ltd. with immediate effect, subject to...
Mar 20 2006 // PWIB Texas reported that Russ Kirchner has joined the company as senior underwriter/broker. Kirchner will work out of PWIB Texas’ San Antonio office at 1380 Pantheon Way, Suite 390. Kirchner has 35 years’...