All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 29 2004 // U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. announced that Genia Walden, Carrie Keel and Joan Corder have joined U.S. Risk Underwriters in the company’s Dallas, Texas office. Walden will be a member of the Commercial Underwriting...
Jul 27 2004 // As 2002 fades from memory as the worst performance year by the Canadian property/casualty insurance industry, 2003, on the other hand, will be remembered for the industry’s return to underwriting profitability and...
Jul 23 2004 // XL Re Europe, the Continental Europe platform for the Reinsurance Operations of XL Capital Ltd., announced the appointment of Bertrand Romagné as senior vice president and head of the Property Treaty Department.Romagné,...
Jul 22 2004 // Acknowledging that Arkansas law imposes minimal restrictions on underwriting, the Arkansas Insurance Department nevertheless announced that it expects property and casualty insurers to give proper attention to the explicit...
Jul 20 2004 // Seattle-based Safeco announced strong second-quarter results, reflecting the company’s solid underwriting and the competitive strength of its automated sales platform. In addition, weather-related catastrophe losses...
Jul 19 2004 // The news that the market for lawyers’ liability coverage is softening may not be surprising but the questions that today’s insurance underwriters ask about law firm accounts might be, attendees at a recent...
Jul 19 2004 // Whether real or imagined, the threat of construction defects litigation has burned through the residential contractors liability insurance market like a California wildfire. Over the past couple of years, contractors and...
Jul 19 2004 // Fitch Ratings has revised its rating outlook for the U.S. commercial lines insurance sector to stable from negative. Fitch had maintained a negative rating outlook on the sector since September 2000.The revised outlook...
Jul 19 2004 // The news that the market for lawyers’ liability coverage is softening may not be surprising, but the questions that today’s insurance underwriters ask about law firm accounts might be, as the attendees at a...
Jul 15 2004 // A group of private investors led by William Kronenberg, III, has completed its acquisition of designated assets of Professional Underwriters which include name, renewal rights and other undisclosed assets.Professional...
Jul 14 2004 // Marilyn Jacoby joined the Dallas/Fort Worth office of Farmington Hills, Mich.-based national specialty insurance wholesaler, underwriter and managing general agent Burns & Wilcox Ltd., in the position of underwriter,...
Jul 9 2004 // Bermuda’s XL Re Ltd., a subsidiary of XL Capital Ltd., announced the appointment of Jeremy Hindle as Ceded Reinsurance and Underwriting Risk Manager, based in London. He is currently Director of Property Underwriting...
Jul 9 2004 // The following article is the conclusion of a three-part commentary written by an insurance company executive which includes an industry critique and reflection on lifelong lessons learned. For part-one and part-two see IJ...
Jul 8 2004 // The following article is part-two of a three-part commentary written by an insurance company executive which includes an industry critique and reflection on lifelong lessons learned. For part-one see IJ National July...
Jul 8 2004 // James Brache has joined the Zurich business unit providing insurance and risk management solutions in emerging markets as an underwriter. A provider of political risk and medium-term trade credit insurance, Zurich develops...
Jul 5 2004 // Like a commercial airline scrambling to squeeze out a profit in the face of increased competition and skyrocketing fuel prices, many insurance agents find themselves caught in the downward spiral of another soft market...
Jul 5 2004 // ‘Clean Slate’ U.S. P/C Insurers Learn from Sins of Their PredecessorsIn the summer of 2001, the hard cycle had already arrived for the U.S. property/casualty marketplace. Prices were trending up as experts...
Jul 5 2004 // The news that the market for lawyers’ liability coverage is softening may not be surprising but the questions that today’s insurance underwriters ask about law firm accounts might be, attendees at a recent...
Jul 5 2004 // The map shows a thin blue line skirting the edge of the Gulf and Atlantic coasts from Louisiana around Florida and all the way up to Maine to highlight the hurricane states. The blocks of red across the Western territories...
Jul 5 2004 // The news that the market for lawyers’ liability coverage is softening may not be surprising but the questions that today’s insurance underwriters ask about law firm accounts might be, attendees at a recent...