All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 17 2019 // Performance in the U.S. personal auto insurance market continues to run favorably in 2019, on par with underwriting profits achieved in 2018, according to Fitch Ratings. However segment results for the industry are likely...
Dec 16 2019 // Liberty Mutual Insurance said it will drastically limit future underwriting for and investment in coal risks, an apparent response to environmentalists pushing for greener investment strategies among corporations.To...
Dec 13 2019 // CoreLogic, a global property analytics provider, has integrated HOVER property measurement and 3D technology into the CoreLogic UnderwritingCenter platform for insurance clients. The integration of HOVER provides carriers...
Dec 13 2019 // Concord Specialty Risk has hired Matthew Edgette as vice president of Tax Insurance Underwriting, where he will take on a leading role in Concord’s Tax Insurance practice. Edgette will be based in New York, N.Y. For...
Dec 13 2019 // J.M. Wilson has promoted Jennifer Councell to senior fleet underwriter in its Portage, Michigan, office.She is responsible for evaluating transportation fleet submissions (11-plus units); quoting new and renewal...
Dec 10 2019 // Victor Insurance Holdings, managing general underwriter, has received approval from Lloyd’s if London to establish Victor Syndicate 2288 and commence underwriting effective January 1, 2020 with stamp capacity of...
Dec 9 2019 // Atlanta, GA, December 9, 2019 — Blue River Underwriters, a Breckenridge Insurance Group company, welcomes the return of Lisa Ebos, CRIS, CPL as senior vice president, senior underwriter of the contractors’ programs...
Dec 9 2019 // Global insurer Chubb announced leadership appointments for North America Commercial Insurance, the company’s $5.8 billion retail commercial property/casualty insurance division that serves middle market and small...
Dec 5 2019 // J.M. Wilson has promoted Adam Mandwee to senior fleet underwriter in its Portage, Michigan, office. Mandwee is responsible for evaluating transportation fleet submissions (11-plus units); quoting new and renewal...
Dec 2 2019 // Beazley has named Rozina Karimali executive risk underwriter within the cyber and executive risk division. Karimali is based in San Francisco and will underwrite public directors and officers and large private D&O...
Nov 27 2019 // MS Amlin, the London-based re/insurer, announced a new operating model and senior leadership team in response to the recent decision by its parent company, MS&AD, to reorganize its international businesses.This...
Nov 26 2019 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced that it has expanded its European team with the addition of Chris Warrior as head of directors’ & officers’ liability underwriting for UK &...
Nov 22 2019 // Atlanta, GA, November 22, 2019 — The specialty property program team at Blue River Underwriters, a Breckenridge Insurance Group company, welcomed Jamey Schoenhard, underwriter, to the team and opened a new office in Glen...
Nov 21 2019 // Insurers can no longer put off addressing the impact of climate change on their underwriting, pricing, and investment decisions, as well as their bottom lines, a recent analysis from Deloitte asserts.“The escalating...
Nov 21 2019 // Liberty Mutual Insurance has appointed Max Libman as lead underwriting consultant for its national Sharing Economy & New Mobility unit.The dedicated Sharing Economy & New Mobility practice was launched earlier this...
Nov 18 2019 // Portage, Michigan-based managing general agency and surplus lines broker, J.M. Wilson, has added Jim Walsh as a marine underwriter. He will be responsible for working with marine carriers and agents for both commercial and...
Nov 18 2019 // Marine and construction broker Jonny Young had no idea three years ago that an internship he was required to complete to graduate college would lead to a career in insurance.But after just three weeks interning with...
Nov 15 2019 // Pioneer Underwriters has decided to put its Lloyd’s Syndicate 1980 into run-off after completing an examination of “strategic and capital options for 2020.”Pioneer said it will be working with Asta, the...
Nov 14 2019 // Simon Matson, CEO of Arthur J. Gallagher’s UK broking and underwriting business, has apologized for “insensitive comments” made when former employees left Gallagher-owned Alesco to join Ardonagh...
Nov 13 2019 // IAT Insurance Group, a provider of specialty property and casualty products, has hired a team of eight underwriters to its Specialty Brokerage division.All eight previously worked together at Hanover Insurance under Mark...