All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 11 2019 // Liberty Mutual Insurance has appointed David Perez to the post of chief underwriting officer, North America, for its Global Risk Solutions commercial and specialty lines insurer and reinsurer. In this new role, Perez will...
Sep 10 2019 // Although the insurance market is awash with capacity and competition, two new specialty companies—a re/insurer and a broker—formed earlier this year, aiming to create something new and different for their...
Sep 9 2019 // Atlanta, GA, September 9, 2019 — Bob Leonhart and Cricket Thomas, CRIS, both executive vice presidents and program directors at Blue River Underwriters, will host an informative webinar on the Fire Sprinkler Elite...
Sep 6 2019 // Transatlantic Underwriters has named Colby Waltenburg president. Waltenburg was previously a vice president. He joined TAU in June and expanded the presence of the company by opening the first West Coast branch, located in...
Sep 4 2019 // ArgoGlobal, the Lloyd’s insurer and member of Argo Group, announced plans to exit Syndicate 1200’s underwriting operations in Asia and most of its hull underwriting business within the syndicate. All existing...
Sep 4 2019 // CFC Underwriting, the London-based specialist managing general agent, announced it has upgraded its product recall suite of coverages.The new extensions include regulatory advisory coverage which addresses the emerging...
Sep 4 2019 // AXA XL, the property/casualty and specialty risk division of AXA, has named Austin Su as U.S. Underwriting Lead of its Structured Risk Solutions (SRS) business. Based in New York, Su joins SRS’ growing global...
Sep 2 2019 // The U.S. property/casualty industry’s net underwriting income declined by 9.6% to $4.8 billion in the first half of 2019, compared with $5.3 billion in the same prior-year period, A.M. Best reports.Also, ongoing...
Aug 30 2019 // Empire Underwriters, a national insurance wholesaler, excess and surplus lines facility and program manager has released a standalone workers comp program for staffing companies available nationwide and backed by several...
Aug 29 2019 // Managing general agency and surplus lines broker J.M. Wilson has promoted Alex Mikos to transportation underwriter in its Arlington Heights, Illinois, office.Mikos is responsible for underwriting new and renewal...
Aug 29 2019 // The commercial automobile insurance segment is headed for its ninth straight year of underwriting losses when the books close at year-end 2019, analysts at Fitch Ratings predict in a new report.In fact, a decade of...
Aug 27 2019 // U.S. property/casualty insurers continue to face substantial underwriting losses on commercial automobile insurance and, following a statutory combined ratio of 108% in 2018, the segment is poised for a ninth consecutive...
Aug 26 2019 // The U.S. property/casualty industry’s net underwriting income declined by 9.6% to $4.8 billion in the first half of 2019, compared with $5.3 billion in the same prior-year period, A.M. Best reports.Also, ongoing...
Aug 22 2019 // Liberty Mutual has appointed Jon Tellekamp as chief underwriting officer for National Insurance – Excess Casualty, and Doug Manwaring as chief underwriting officer of National Insurance – Public Entities and...
Aug 21 2019 // Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance, has appointed James Goodliffe to the role of senior underwriting officer within its Financial Risk Solutions (FRS) Multi-Buyer Trade Credit practice. He is...
Aug 20 2019 // Workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group has appointed Kim Wilson to the role of senior production underwriter to support continued growth in the Georgia market.Wilson has more than 15 years of experience in...
Aug 19 2019 // Construction insurance specialists say their insurance market is strong with plenty of capacity and underwriters competing for the best accounts.According to specialists interviewed by Insurance Journal for their...
Aug 19 2019 // The value of global insurance premiums underwritten by artificial intelligence will exceed $20 billion by 2024, up from an estimated $1.3 billion in 2019, according to new data from Juniper Research.This growth will be...
Aug 16 2019 // AXA XL has added Jennifer Arezes to its property insurance team in Canada. Arezes is based in Toronto and will work alongside Ian Rutherford, head of Property, Canada and Urs Uhlmann, CEO and country manager AXA XL, Canada...
Aug 12 2019 // Empire Underwriters, a leading national insurance wholesaler, excess and surplus lines facility and program manager has released a new workers comp program for truckers, tow truck operators, and delivery companies backed...