All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 9 2017 // Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak will serve in 2017 as president-elect of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the nation’s insurance...
Jan 5 2017 // Cranbrook Underwriters, an H.W. Kaufman Financial Group company, announced the relocation of its London offices to One Minster Court, Mincing Lane, London EC3R 7AE, U.K., in the heart of London’s financial...
Jan 5 2017 // Collinson Group, the London-based provider of insurance and assistance solutions, has appointed Saugata Basu as chief underwriting officer.In his role, Basu will partner with the group’s capacity providers to develop...
Jan 4 2017 // AXON Underwriting Services LLC, a program administrator and service provider based in Somerville, N.J., has hired David McMillan as an underwriting manager.He joins the firm in order to further develop its growing...
Jan 4 2017 // Velocity Risk Underwriters has expanded its Florida home insurance products and is now writing coastal homeowners policies statewide. Velocity offers an A.M. Best “A” rated coastal homeowners program through...
Jan 3 2017 // New York State’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) in December issued a new regulation that prohibits insurance companies from denying commercial crime insurance coverage to New York businesses employing people...
Dec 30 2016 // On a first quarter results call W.R. Berkley Corp. President and CEO Robert Berkley cited a growing and alarming level of tension between carriers and distributors, driven by what he called a fight to grow margins in the...
Dec 29 2016 // Markel International, the London-based specialist insurer, has appointed Lynette Brown as underwriter in its livestock team and Emilie Larson as underwriting assistant for the equine team.Brown has over 10 years’...
Dec 27 2016 // Risk Strategies Company, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired business insurance specialist Advanced Insurance Underwriters (AIU), headquartered in Hollywood, Fla. Terms of...
Dec 22 2016 // No South Central state had the best score and none had the worst in a report recently released by a conservative-leaning research organization that annually assesses the effectiveness states’ insurance regulatory...
Dec 22 2016 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Dec 21 2016 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday issued a regulation making it easier for businesses to hire former convicts by prohibiting insurance companies from refusing coverage for crime-related losses caused by...
Dec 21 2016 // Hamilton Underwriting Ltd., the managing agency of Syndicate 3334 and the Lloyd’s operations of Hamilton Insurance Group, has appointed Peter Holland as claims director to lead the agency’s claims function.A...
Dec 16 2016 // Southfield, MI, December 16, 2016 – Stephen Ruschak, President and Chief Operating Officer, The Guarantee Company of North America USA (The Guarantee USA), is pleased to announce that Dwight Teter has been appointed as...
Dec 15 2016 // A new Kaiser Family Foundation study finds that 52 million adults under 65 – or 27 percent of that population — have pre-existing health conditions that would likely make them uninsurable if they applied for individual...
Dec 13 2016 // Southern Insurance Underwriters, Inc. (SIU) announced that John M. Schoerner has joined the company as the Professional Lines Practice manager and will lead the company expansion of errors & omissions, architects &...
Dec 9 2016 // XL Catlin’s reinsurance operations has announced two key leadership appointments for Bermuda and London, both effective January 2017.Jonathan (Jon) Gale, currently chief executive London Reinsurance, will take over...
Dec 9 2016 // ArgoGlobal, the Lloyd’s insurer and member of Argo Group, has announced the appointment of Michael Thompson as hull class underwriter.He takes up the role with immediate effect and will report to Steve...
Dec 8 2016 // The MEMIC Group, a Portland, Maine, headquartered workers’ compensation specialist, has promoted Chris Abboud to senior underwriter and has also promoted Eileen Moran Fongemie to vice president of finance and...
Dec 7 2016 // State Auto’s Western Region has added Bob McCarty as underwriting manager for the Central/Southern Texas area. He is based in Austin. McCarty has 30 years of insurance and management experience. He began his career...