All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 18 2020 // Richard Dabney has been appointed vice president of corporate underwriting at the Austin-based workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Company.In this newly created VP position within the underwriting...
Aug 18 2020 // Specialist insurer International General Insurance Holdings announced the appointment of Brian James as class underwriter for Cargo.James will be based in IGI’s London office and will be responsible for developing a...
Aug 14 2020 // It’s not just insurtech startups that have an edge on innovation. Some established reinsurers have developed their own analytics and technology divisions that offer a variety of insurtech-type solutions for...
Aug 14 2020 // El Paso, Texas-based surplus lines managing general agent, Litchfield Special Risks Inc., has added Melissa Harris as a property/casualty underwriter. Harris is experienced in commercial underwriting and joins LSRI after...
Aug 13 2020 // Paschal Strong has been appointed vice president of underwriting operations at workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co.In this newly created position within the underwriting division, Strong will be...
Aug 12 2020 // One80 Intermediaries, a Boston-headquartered wholesale broker, program manager, and insurance aggregator, announced it has acquired Strategic Underwriting Managers Inc. (SUM), a Canada-based managing general agent.Terms of...
Aug 12 2020 // Jackson Sumner & Associates (JSA) has acquired Landers Underwriting of Charlottesville, Va., in a deal inked earlier this month. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.JSA is an excess and surplus broker that...
Aug 11 2020 // Trident Marine Managers, Inc. (Trident) has reached a delegated authority underwriting agreement with Nationwide E&S to provide recreational marine and marine equipment insurance, along with workers’ compensation...
Aug 10 2020 // Global insurer Chubb announced appointments to two new executive positions.Chubb has named John Lupica as president of North America Insurance, the company’s largest division. Lupica is currently vice chairman, Chubb...
Aug 10 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway Inc. had a tough second quarter with the pandemic taking a toll on most of its operating businesses including Precision Castparts aircraft parts, the BNSF railroad, Occidental Petroleum Corp., Kraft...
Aug 10 2020 // Gridiron Insurance Underwriters, Inc., a program manager specializing in program business on a regional and national basis through select retail and wholesale producers, has hired Ben Murphy as its new head of...
Aug 7 2020 // Specialist insurer Beazley has appointed four new underwriters within its Chicago, Ill.-based cyber and executive risk division.Jon Perry and Megan Feyereisen join as executive risk underwriters, while Brett Kreiter and...
Aug 5 2020 // Worldwide Facilities, LLC, a national wholesale insurance broker, managing general agent and program underwriter, has acquired Clearwater Underwriters, Inc., a surplus lines MGA based in Clearwater, Fla.Clearwater...
Aug 4 2020 // One80 Intermediaries has acquired National Underwriting Services Inc. in San Antonio, Texas. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. National Underwriting Services is a specialty underwriter of medical stop loss coverage for...
Jul 30 2020 // Atlanta, GA, July 30, 2020 — Breckenridge Insurance Group welcomes Sheree Davis to the company as a senior vice president, program director. Davis has more than 30 years of insurance industry experience with significant...
Jul 28 2020 // Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd. announced it has appointed industry veteran Jacques Bonneau as its president and chief executive officer effective immediately.Bonneau, who will be based in the company’s headquarter in...
Jul 27 2020 // AXA XL announced the new leadership team for its UK & Lloyd’s region. Effective immediately, the appointments are part of the proposed changes to the operating model of AXA XL’s Insurance business following...
Jul 24 2020 // A new model clause for clarifying coverage of motor terrorism risks has been published by the International Underwriting Association.It has been developed after a growing spate of terrorist attacks using vehicles led to...
Jul 22 2020 // The Central Insurance Companies, based in Van Wert, Ohio, has promoted Jocelyn Pfeifer to senior vice president of Underwriting.Pfeifer will lead the entirety of the company’s underwriting organization including...
Jul 21 2020 // SAGE Program Underwriters, a national specialty program administrator, has launched a new workers’ compensation program for the ground delivery industry.SAGE has worked with the ground delivery and transportation for...