All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 18 2018 // Appalachian Underwriters Inc. has added Armando Duran as external marketing representative for Texas.He is based in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and will focus on agent relationships throughout the state. Duran comes to AUI...
Jun 18 2018 // Big changes are ahead at The Schinnerer Group, a managing general underwriter (MGU), which is getting a new name – Victor – and has some major expansion plans.From its current premium base of $1.2 billion,...
Jun 18 2018 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has added risk management and insurance professionals Rose Nordbrock, Jeff Breskin, Pabla Barros and Jose Fuentes to the firm’s operations in Southern California.Nordbrock joins...
Jun 15 2018 // London-based managing general underwriter StartPoint Executive Risks has appointed Mark Selby as head of its newly created financial institutions underwriting practice.The FI practice is a complement to the current...
Jun 14 2018 // Specialist insurance provider, CFC Underwriting, has launched its first insurance solution for financial institutions. CFC’s Investment Management Insurance (IMI) policy is the first in a suite of products designed...
Jun 14 2018 // Volante Global Ltd., the new international managing general agent (MGA) platform, has successfully secured a US$900 million gross premium, multi-class, multi-territory “A+” capacity treaty agreement.The...
Jun 12 2018 // AmTrust Financial Services Inc., a multinational insurance holding company headquartered in New York City, has named J. Daniel Hickey as group chief underwriting officer.Hickey is based at AmTrust’s New York City...
Jun 12 2018 // Markel International, the specialist insurer, has been granted a license by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India to write reinsurance business in the country. Capacity will be provided by...
Jun 11 2018 // Limehouse Agencies, part of Risk Transfer Group Ltd. (RTG), announced it has acquired Corporate Underwriting Ltd. (CUL), a specialist marine underwriting agency and Lloyd’s coverholder.The acquisition of Dublin-based...
Jun 7 2018 // Big changes are ahead at The Schinnerer Group, a managing general underwriter (MGU), which is getting a new name – Victor – and has some major expansion plans.From its current premium base of $1.2 billion, Victor has...
Jun 4 2018 // Smart Choice has named Chris Reisdorf, formerly of All Risks, to lead the company’s efforts in North Carolina as state director.A 25-year veteran of the insurance industry, Reisdorf has worked in a number of areas...
Jun 4 2018 // Workers’ compensation insurers are managing their premiums dollars better than they have in years, but those premium dollars are stagnating even as employment and wages are rising.In 2017, for the fourth consecutive...
Jun 4 2018 // An interview was recently published in a major industry publication with a notable ex-CEO of a prominent insurance company. Throughout the article, the ex-CEO bemoaned how power and profit has shifted to brokers from...
Jun 1 2018 // The former chief executive of an insurance company believes the center of value of the property/casualty industry has shifted away from one of the activities that would seem to define an insurance risk-taking enterprise:...
May 31 2018 // Portage, Michigan-based wholesale insurance organization, J.M. Wilson, has promoted Braden Black to brokerage underwriter.Black is responsible for quoting new and renewal brokerage business and servicing accounts for...
May 29 2018 // The property & casualty insurance and group benefits industry is changing faster than ever, or at least faster than any time in any reader’s history. Many factors are the parents of such change. In part one of...
May 24 2018 // The International Underwriting Association of London (IUA), representing carriers operating in or through London, has formed a group on cyber underwriting specifically for reinsurers.The organization said the move follows...
May 24 2018 // Complying with the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation is leading insurers and reinsurers to dilute the types of data they gather—something that could diminish underwriting quality, A.M. Best...
May 24 2018 // Specialty insurer Neon announced that Theo Butt will be joining the company in September in the newly-created role of group underwriting director for Neon Holdings Limited. Butt joins Neon from Ascot Underwriting where he...
May 22 2018 // Castel Specialty, the division of managing general agent Castel Underwriting Agencies Limited for smaller books of niche business, has expanded its portfolio with the launch of Castel Political Risk.Led by Tom White,...