All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 21 2018 // San Diego, CA, February 21, 2018 – Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC (‘Atlas’), a national multi-line program administrator, announced today the continued expansion of their Property capabilities with...
Feb 20 2018 // Hamilton Underwriting Ltd., the managing agency of Syndicate 3334 and the Lloyd’s operations of Bermuda-based Hamilton Insurance Group, announced the details of a reorganization of its underwriting team.Pending...
Feb 19 2018 // The Alabama Department of Insurance has announced Jerry Workman as Deputy Commissioner. Workman will succeed Deputy Commissioner and Chief Actuary Charles Angell, who is retiring in July of 2018. He will lead the...
Feb 16 2018 // Aspen Insurance Holdings confirmed on Friday, Feb. 16 that it has ceased underwriting property insurance on its Bermuda platform, effective immediately, as a result of the company’s 2017 catastrophe losses.The move...
Feb 15 2018 // SafeWaters Underwriting Managers has a new delegated authority underwriting agreement to provide the U.S. and Latin American markets with expanded ocean marine insurance products backed by Aspen Insurance, the insurance...
Feb 15 2018 // Appalachian Underwriters, Inc. is has hired workers’ compensation underwriter Alon Cohn to its Sanford, Fla., office. Cohn will focus on the production of new workers’ compensation business in the Southeast...
Feb 13 2018 // XL Catlin’s insurance operations announced that Tim Powell has been promoted to chief underwriting officer for international financial lines (IFL), effective March 1.Powell will be responsible for the underwriting...
Feb 13 2018 // Independent specialty managing general agent Nexus Group announced it has completed the acquisition of Apsley Specialty Ltd., a registered Lloyd’s coverholder.Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed....
Feb 7 2018 // Rating agency A.M. Best expects the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry to post a second consecutive underwriting loss in 2017, driven mainly by catastrophe losses.The expected net underwriting loss for 2017 of $29.3...
Feb 7 2018 // Appalachian Underwriters, Inc. has hired Marketing Representative Vianka Mambuca to its Sanford Florida office. She will focus on agent relationships in Central and Northern Florida counties. According to Carrie Bay,...
Feb 6 2018 // St. Louis, Missouri-based Safety National Casualty Corp. is implementing changes to its executive and upper management structure that will become effective on April 1, 2018.Gene Maier, executive vice president and chief...
Feb 5 2018 // Boca Raton, Fla.-based Universal Insurance Services, LLC, a subsidiary of Vanbridge, LLC, has added Jamie Lorentz to the firm as an analyst for Corporate and Institutional Insurance.Lorentz joins Universal from...
Feb 5 2018 // Texas Security General Insurance Agency LLC (TSGA) in San Antonio, Texas, added David A. Winkley as vice president of Commercial Lines.A former business owner, Winkley has industry experience in retail production,...
Feb 5 2018 // The difficult job of moving commercial auto insurance to a profitable place has not gotten any easier.More vehicles on the road thanks to a rebounding economy, more miles driven, distracted drivers and...
Feb 5 2018 // David Kramer and Theodore Nittis have launched Gemini Risk Partners as an independent professional liability insurance brokerage in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.The firm will focus on serving law firms, as it did when it was...
Feb 5 2018 // Outlooks Positive: Northwest G.F. Mutual Insurance Co.A.M. Best revised the outlooks to positive from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B+ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of...
Feb 2 2018 // Dallas-based Towerstone Inc., a national specialty wholesale insurance broker, has added four associates to wholesale underwriting team.David Willbanks joined the company as a small commercial underwriter and will connect...
Feb 2 2018 // Continental Underwriters Inc., a Richmond, Va.-based managing general underwriter and wholesale broker, has promoted Amanda Huang to chief operating officer. Huang has been a part of Continental for more than 12 years. She...
Feb 2 2018 // Volante Global Ltd., a new multi-class and multi-territory international managing general agent (MGA) platform, has announced the launch of Bridge Underwriting AB, a Stockholm-based specialist underwriting MGA.Bridge...
Feb 1 2018 // Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK), the London-based provider of specialist and corporate insurance, has appointed Alex Jomaa as cyber underwriter. He takes up the role immediately and will report to Laila Khudairi, head of...