All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 19 2016 // Appalachian Underwriters Inc. has named Jeanette Budde Western regional vice president in the firm’s Scottsdale, Airz. office. Budde’s role will focus on profitably growing workers’ compensation business...
Sep 19 2016 // Catastrophes, lower favorable loss reserve development and challenging market conditions continued to pressure U.S. property/casualty insurers through the first half of the year, leading to an underwriting loss of...
Sep 19 2016 // The business outlook for the London insurance market is a familiar one across other global markets: underwriting profits are under pressure as ongoing soft market prices begin to take a toll.In separate reports on the...
Sep 19 2016 // Pat Kilkenny and Bob Kimmel put the K’s in K2 Insurance Services five years ago. That’s when they began using their combined 60 years of insurance experience to work buying up and developing businesses with the...
Sep 19 2016 // Workers’ compensation, the largest product segment in the U.S. commercial lines insurance sector, has experienced a recent profit renaissance, moving to a significant underwriting profit in 2015.However, long-term...
Sep 16 2016 // Specialist insurer XL Catlin has agreed to acquire Australia’s Brooklyn Underwriting from Paul Hines. Brooklyn is an underwriting agency in Australia and a Lloyd’s approved coverholder, that has been operating...
Sep 14 2016 // Insurance intermediary Towergate is forming a London underwriting centre to be led by David Leathem as London director of underwriting. The unit will focus on specialist London market product lines.Leathem will lead the...
Sep 14 2016 // Florida homeowners’ insurer Olympus Insurance Co., a leading Florida homeowners insurer, has promoted Bradley Burton to executive vice president of Underwriting and Business Development.In his new role, Burton will...
Sep 12 2016 // Global insurance broker Hub International Ltd. has acquired New Dimensions Underwriters Ltd. Based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, New Dimensions is a managing general agency. Russ Davis, the owner and president of New...
Sep 12 2016 // Chubb announced that Jamie Keaney, formerly European Personal Risk Services underwriting manager, has been promoted to the new role of vice president and chief underwriting officer for International Personal Risk Services,...
Sep 12 2016 // Ronnell Agatep has joined XL Catlin’s global retail Accident & Health (A&H) insurance business as its global head of underwriting. Based in New York, Agatep assumes this newly-created role to drive product...
Sep 7 2016 // Chicago Underwriting Group Inc., the professional liability underwriting division of Old Republic Insurance Co., is changing its name to Old Republic Professional Liability Inc. The company said the new name more clearly...
Sep 7 2016 // Beth Goldberg has joined Starr Companies as chief underwriting officer, Financial Lines. She will be responsible for sales, underwriting, profitability and growth. Goldberg has 17 years of experience with international...
Sep 6 2016 // It’s been a rough ride, full of twists, turns and a few roadblocks for truckers and their insurance specialists.Truckers today face a number of obstacles that have raised the cost of doing business, including tough...
Sep 1 2016 // Pat Kilkenny and Bob Kimmel put the K’s in K2 Insurance Services five years ago. That’s when they began using their combined 60 years of insurance experience to work buying up and developing businesses with the...
Aug 31 2016 // Sompo Canopius AG is diving into the U.S. ocean marine business. The global specialty insurer and reinsurer, which is wholly-owned by Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Inc., calls this a “significant expansion”...
Aug 30 2016 // Property/casualty insurers in North America saw their operating income decline by double digits in the first half of 2016, as investment income plunged and catastrophe losses rose.Fitch Ratings looked at 44 insurers and...
Aug 26 2016 // Xuber, the insurance software business of Xchanging, a unit of CSC, announced the delivery of its “Xuber for MGAs” platform for London-based Castel Underwriting Agencies Ltd.Xuber for MGAs is a flexible digital...
Aug 25 2016 // New Day Underwriting Managers LLC, a Hamilton, N.J., based specialty intermediary of environmental and construction related professional liability insurance, has hired Cara Giquinto as a senior account manager in its real...
Aug 24 2016 // The business outlook for the London insurance market is a familiar one across other global markets: underwriting profits are under pressure as ongoing soft market prices begin to take a toll.In separate reports on the...