All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 7 2019 // Managing general agency and surplus lines broker J.M. Wilson has promoted Sherry Ihling to executive brokerage underwriter in its Portage, Michigan, office.Ihling is responsible for underwriting new and renewal accounts...
May 7 2019 // Ryan Specialty Group (RSG) and Nationwide announced they have formed a new Bermuda reinsurance company, Geneva Re Ltd.Columbus, Ohio-headquartered Nationwide will own 50 percent of the venture with RSG and RSG-related...
May 7 2019 // Jimcor Agency Inc., a Montvale, N.J.-based independent managing general agent and insurance wholesaler, has hired Joe Chase to serve as an underwriter in Florida, working in the company’s Southeast Region. He is...
May 6 2019 // Atlanta, GA, May 6, 2019 — Breckenridge Insurance Group announced two senior leadership positions at the wholesale insurance organization. Trevor Piece has been promoted to division president for the Breckenridge...
May 3 2019 // Ryan Specialty Group, LLC, has acquired the assets and operations of International Specialty Insurance Services Inc. (ISI), an independently owned managing general underwriter with offices in Winston-Salem, North Carolina....
May 1 2019 // Atlas General Insurance Services has collaborated with Bascule Underwriting, specialists in equine insurance, to provide an exclusive workers compensation product for horse farm owners.The program will be administered by...
May 1 2019 // Corvus Insurance has opened an office in Atlanta, its fifth office location, and hired Joel Fehrman, who will serve as vice president of Cyber Underwriting based in the new office.Fehrman joins Corvus with more than 10...
Apr 30 2019 // Insurance industry veterans Stephen Catlin and Paul Brand announced they have launched an international specialty insurer and reinsurer, Convex Group Ltd.Convex launches with $1.8 billion of initial committed capital and...
Apr 30 2019 // Appalachian Underwriters, Inc. has hired transportation broker Mary Kidd to focus on large commercial transportation accounts in its Sarasota, Fla., office.Kidd will work with accounts with more than $25,000 in premium,...
Apr 26 2019 // Lloyd’s of London, the world’s oldest insurer of seafaring vessels, is facing its own perfect storm.Old-fashioned business practices, exposure to natural disasters, competition from rival centers and Brexit are...
Apr 25 2019 // Cannasure Insurance Services (Cannasure), a Cleveland, Ohio-based managing general agent and wholesale insurance broker for the cannabis and hemp industries, hired Jenna Keesey as a senior underwriter in its growing MGA...
Apr 24 2019 // We are grateful for friend of the Academy, Chris Burand, President of Burand & Associates, LLC for this timely article. Thanks, Chris!Now, let’s get to his question: Is it really necessary to read forms? Of...
Apr 23 2019 // California’s new insurance commissioner wasn’t getting along so well on Earth Day with groups of climate change and consumer activists.California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, who put battling climate...
Apr 23 2019 // Axon Underwriting Services LLC, the Somerville, N.J.-based specialty lines program administrator, announced the formation of Axon Re to offer its cargo and stock throughput reinsurance program within the Latin American...
Apr 22 2019 // Hannover Re announced it is scaling back its exposure to coal-fired power plants and coal mines, joining a growing list of re/insurers that have made similar moves.In addition to excluding coal-based projects from its...
Apr 22 2019 // After two consecutive years of combined ratios above 100, the U.S. property/casualty industry returned to a modest statutory underwriting profit in 2018 as catastrophe losses slowed, premium growth accelerated and several...
Apr 15 2019 // American International Group has named Carla Ferrara as head of communications for AIG’s Investments organization. Ferrara will be based in New York and report to Elaine Rocha, chief operating officer of AIG...
Apr 4 2019 // Managing general agency and surplus lines broker, J.M. Wilson, has hired Nicole Lloyd as assistant transportation underwriter in its Westerville, Ohio, office.Lloyd is responsible for assisting underwriters on a wide...
Apr 4 2019 // AXA XL has promoted Jennifer Minors to senior vice president – product line leader in its Bermuda Professional Lines Insurance business.Minors is responsible for managing directors and officers (D&O), professional...
Apr 4 2019 // Insurtech advances will soon drive down unacceptably high expense ratios in the inland marine sector, making it possible to insure even hard-to-place, small or one-off inland marine risks at the best possible...