All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 20 2016 // Ryan Specialty Group’s (RSG) ThinkRisk Underwriting Agency has entered into a new underwriting partnership for its Converging Risk program with Lloyd’s of London.ThinkRisk will transition its existing...
May 20 2016 // StarStone, the global specialty insurer and subsidiary of Enstar Group Ltd., announced the creation of an underwriting capability in Australia. The new hub will operate alongside Enstar’s existing Australian...
May 20 2016 // Ascinsure Specialty Risk has hired David White as underwriting manager and assistant vice president. He is based in Pittsburgh.Within this role, White will manage and oversee underwriting of all new and renewal business....
May 19 2016 // Underwriting performance for the commercial lines sector of the U.S. property/casualty (P/C) insurance industry is likely to deteriorate in 2016, according to a new report from Fitch Ratings. The expected decline would...
May 18 2016 // Mathew Reardon Ultra Risk Advisors has hired Mathew Reardon as sales executive for the Northeastern territory. He is based in Boston. Reardon brings more than five years of healthcare professional liability insurance...
May 17 2016 // A.M. Besthas removed from under review with positive implications and upgraded the financial strength rating (FSR) to A (Excellent) from A- (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating (ICR) to “a” from...
May 16 2016 // This week is National Dog Bite Prevention Week (certainly a noble cause). To celebrate this “occasion,” the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) published the most recently available dog-bite...
May 16 2016 // While Zurich Insurance Group’s new chief executive officer believes the insurer is on the right track in terms of growth and profit, the organizational structure remains too complicated, he suggested during an...
May 13 2016 // XL Catlin’s insurance operations announced it has strengthened its energy team globally with four senior hires: Wayne Jacobson, Joseph Tina, Helen Watkinson and Denise Dass-Hewitt.In the Americas, XL Catlin has...
May 10 2016 // Andre Stewart has been named chief underwriting officer for NORCAL Mutual Insurance Co. Stewart joined NORCAL in 2015 as senior vice president of underwriting for custom accounts, where he was responsible for new business...
May 9 2016 // The U.S. property/casualty (P/C) industry marked a third consecutive year of underwriting profitability, with $6.2 billion in underwriting income in 2015. However, the lower level of underwriting income and an 11.2 percent...
May 6 2016 // The Main Street America Group announced the promotion of one company officer to assistant vice president and the appointment of three new company officers in its Jacksonville, Fla., headquarters.Darryl Osman, currently the...
May 6 2016 // Personal lines insurers are most likely to benefit from wide uses of automation in underwriting, a new report has found.“They are more likely to have a homogenous book of business and a standardized product...
May 5 2016 // The Main Street America Group announced the promotion of one company officer to assistant vice president and the appointment of four new company officers, all of whom will be an assistant secretary of the super-regional...
May 4 2016 // Liberty International Underwriters (LIU) has named Casey Hartley as U.S. General Liability product line leader. Based in Atlanta, Miss., Hartley will have responsibility for the technical underwriting, portfolio...
May 3 2016 // While the property/casualty industry has reported three consecutive years of significant underwriting profits, the commercial auto market as a whole reported an underwriting loss for the fifth consecutive year in 2015.In...
May 3 2016 // MS Amlin announced it is now operating as one brand in the Lloyd’s market, as a single managing agency, MS Amlin Underwriting Ltd.Operating from 22 locations across three continents, the MS Amlin business will...
May 2 2016 // Allison Warmuth, senior underwriter in healthcare at Lexington Insurance, was killed in a tragic accident Saturday after the scooter she was driving was struck by a duck boat in downtown Boston.Warmuth, 28, was also an...
Apr 26 2016 // Xl Catlin has appointed Kyle McGrath as Fine Art & Specie underwriter. She is based in New York City. In her new role, she will underwrite Fine Art and General Specie coverage for clients throughout the U.S. and will...
Apr 25 2016 // Experts are cautioning both insurance buyers and sellers not to overreact to the recent federal court decision finding data breach defense coverage under a commercial general liability (CGL) policy.Buyers would be mistaken...