All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 14 2006 // Driven by the largest natural catastrophe in U.S. history, Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. property/casualty industry’s underwriting loss was $2.8 billion for the first nine months of 2005, reversing the $3.4 billion...
Feb 8 2006 // Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has agreed to acquire Applied Underwriters and all of its subsidiaries, including its North American Casualty insurance companies.Applied Underwriters is a privately held company that is an industry...
Feb 8 2006 // Encino, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services has added health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to the eligible classes of its managed care E&O/D&O/EPLI insurance coverage. Other eligible classes include medical...
Feb 8 2006 // Canada-based Kingsway Financial Services Inc. reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, 2005 (Cdn dollars except where indicated).Net income for the quarter increased 16% to $42.1 million...
Feb 7 2006 // Insurance marketers and underwriters from across the country will explore a wide range of hot topics and cutting-edge marketplace developments such as technology and insurance buying trends, predictive modeling and...
Feb 6 2006 // It seems that every risk today has a big exposure, regardless of size or industry type. Some popular litigation targets include product liability, personal injury claims, false advertising and, most frequently, commercial...
Feb 6 2006 // It seems that every risk today has a big exposure, regardless of size or industry type. Some popular litigation targets include product liability, personal injury claims, false advertising and, most frequently, commercial...
Feb 5 2006 // It seems that every risk today has a big exposure, regardless of size or industry type. Some popular litigation targets include product liability, personal injury claims, false advertising and, most frequently, commercial...
Feb 2 2006 // Faraday Group, the broker-focused Lloyd’s managing agent and London-based reinsurance group, announced the approval of the appointments of Mark Rayner and Paul Ceurvorst as joint Chief Underwriting Officer and Active...
Feb 1 2006 // Dallas, Texas-based PWIB Texas, a division of Insurance Specialty Group (ISG), announced the addition of Josh Taylor as an associate underwriter/broker. Taylor formerly served as an assistant underwriter with a managing...
Feb 1 2006 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency’s Inc. Professional Liability Division, Torrance, Calif., has appointed Anita Bryant senior program underwriter for the employment professional liability insurance, private company...
Jan 31 2006 // The president of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society will ring the closing bell at The NASDAQ Stock Market in Times Square today to kick-off the group’s annual Directors & Officers insurance...
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...