All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 23 2006 // Each year the Insurance Information Institute invites a panel of Wall Street stock analysts and industry professionals to review the prospects for the industry in the year ahead. This year’s survey results indicate...
Jan 23 2006 // Anticipating and assessing risk, along with defining and assigning value to units of exposure, are basic components of an insurance underwriter’s job. Challenging as such tasks are when examining well-known...
Jan 23 2006 // ‘The expectation for a third consecutive underwriting profit in 2006 is, of course, predicated on the belief that catastrophe activity will return to more “normal” levels.Record catastrophe losses will...
Jan 23 2006 // XL, Rockhill and GMAC RE jockey for market share with established surplus lines writersKatrina-sized catastrophes put added pressure on admitted carriers, which increases the demand for greater capacity in excess and...
Jan 23 2006 // Record catastrophe losses will weigh heavily on 2005’s underwriting results, according to the Insurance Information Institute’s recent “Earlybird Forecast Survey,” but the survey of Wall Street...
Jan 22 2006 // Zurich and Hellman & Friedman call off Universal Underwriters sale after regulatory issues surfaceZurich Financial Services Group (Zurich) and affiliates of Hellman & Friedman LLC (H&F), a leading private...
Jan 22 2006 // Record catastrophe losses will weigh heavily on 2005’s underwriting results, according to the Insurance Information Institute’s Earlybird Forecast Survey, but the survey of Wall Street stock analysts and...
Jan 22 2006 // 2006 looking good already for P/C industryRecord catastrophe losses will weigh heavily on 2005’s underwriting results, according to the Insurance Information Institute’s recent Earlybird Forecast Survey, but...
Jan 22 2006 // Anticipating and assessing risk, along with defining and assigning value to units of exposure, are basic components of an insurance underwriter’s job. Challenging as such tasks are when examining well-known...
Jan 22 2006 // With more than a quarter million law firms in the United States, the lawyers’ professional liability market represents a huge opportunity for retail agents and wholesale brokers seeking to grow their business.In any...
Jan 22 2006 // Fortunately for insurers, 2006 will likely feature far fewer screaming headlines announcing investigations into various insurance industry practices such as broker compensation and finite reinsurance.Each year the...
Jan 22 2006 // XL, Rockhill and GMAC RE jockey for market share with established surplus lines writersKatrina-sized catastrophes put added pressure on admitted carriers, which increases the demand for greater capacity in excess and...
Jan 20 2006 // Nevada-based Employers Insurance Group (EIG) reported a corporate reorganization designed to position the group of companies for expansion in commercial property and casualty insurance beyond its position as the...
Jan 16 2006 // Zurich Financial Services Group (Zurich) and affiliates of Hellman & Friedman LLC (H&F), a leading private equity investment firm, jointly announced that they have agreed not to proceed with the sale of...
Jan 16 2006 // The Kansas City Star reported today that the proposed $1.1 billion sale of Universal Underwriters Insurance Co. has fallen through following a regulatory examination that may mandate refunds to customers in the amount of...
Jan 13 2006 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has affirmed the financial strength rating of “A-” (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating of “a-” of Singapore Reinsurance Corporation Limited (Singapore Re) with a...
Jan 12 2006 // Bermuda-based Quanta Capital Holdings Ltd., which provides specialty insurance, specialty reinsurance, and risk assessment and consulting services through its subsidiaries, announced that the underwriters of its recent...
Jan 11 2006 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of A (Excellent) of Lawyers’ Professional Indemnity Company (LAWPRO) (Ontario, Canada). The rating outlook is stable.The rating and outlook reflect...
Jan 9 2006 // W. R. Berkley Corporation has launched Berkley Net Underwriters, LLC, a web-based system that will allow the company’s producers to quote and bind insurance on behalf of W. R. Berkley Corporation’s insurance...
Jan 5 2006 // A leading U.K. intelligence expert and a specialist in terrorist underwriting at Hiscox Plc have warned that the threat of terrorism will not diminish in the year ahead with the continued potential for attacks around the...