All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 27 2016 // A decision from the California Department of Insurance has workers’ compensation carrier Applied Underwriters and one of its companies on the defensive, and now a class action suit has been filed seeking to recover...
Jan 25 2016 // XL Catlin announced it has strengthened its Brazilian team with two appointments. Patricia Britto has joined as property underwriter and Luiz Carlos Dos Santos as senior casualty underwriter – both based in Sao Paulo....
Jan 21 2016 // Liberty International Underwriters (LIU) has named Diana Cossetti as senior vice president of LIU’s U.S. Casualty operation, newly-created underwriting leadership role overseeing Primary Casualty, Excess Casualty,...
Jan 20 2016 // The sharing economy, expanded litigation, surplus capital, custom account underwriting and further consolidation are likely to challenge the U.S. casualty insurance marketplace in 2016, according to broker Marsh.Marsh...
Jan 19 2016 // Specialty insurance and reinsurance carrier Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. announced the appointments of Frank Mike-Mayer as chief underwriting officer and Mark Wade as chief claims officer, both serving as key...
Jan 19 2016 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Company (BHSI) has launched four new executive and professional lines policies in Australia and named Sami Jaghbir as senior underwriting manager, Executive & Professional Lines,...
Jan 15 2016 // All Risks Ltd., an independent wholesaler based in Hunt Valley, Maryland, has hired Steve Davis as underwriting manager in the National Specialty Programs unit. In this role, Davis will continue to grow the existing...
Jan 15 2016 // U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc., has acquired Southlake, Texas-based managing general agency and wholesale insurance broker, American Underwriting Managers (AUM). For 17 years AUM has served the needs of retail insurance...
Jan 12 2016 // Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance, has hired William Bell as senior vice president of U.S. Environmental.LIU also announced two promotions: Mike Nukk to senior vice president of...
Jan 12 2016 // Dallas-based B&H Risk Services has hired Lorna Greenwood as senior underwriter.Greenwood will be involved in day to day underwriting and broking, new business development, new product and program development, producer...
Jan 12 2016 // Everest Re Group Ltd. announced that Paul Kneafsey will be joining the company as the active underwriter of its Lloyd’s Syndicate 2786. Kneafsey is expected to assume his new role effective May 1, 2016.He will join...
Jan 11 2016 // Hamilton Underwriting Ltd., the managing agency of Lloyd’s Syndicate 3334 and the Lloyd’s operations of Bermuda-based Hamilton Insurance Group, announced that Adrian Daws has been appointed to the position of...
Jan 8 2016 // Arch Reinsurance Company has hired John Willemsen and Bill Hopkins as managing directors for its underwriting team in Morristown, New Jersey. Willemsen joins Arch Re with over 30 years of experience, most recently as head...
Jan 8 2016 // Neil Maidment, Beazley’s chief underwriting officer, has been elected to the Council of Lloyd’s for a three year term, beginning on Feb. 1. Maidment has worked in the Lloyd’s market for 31 years,...
Jan 8 2016 // ArgoGlobal has appointed Jeremy Shallow as Credit and Political Risks Class underwriter. He takes up his position with immediate effect, reporting to John Moffatt, head of Specialty.Shallow joins the company from Aspen...
Jan 8 2016 // Ryan Direct Group (RDG), the insurance services business and part of Chicago-based Ryan Specialty Group (RSG), has entered into agreement to acquire Northern Ireland-based MGA Midas Underwriting, subject to regulatory...
Jan 7 2016 // Don Pickens is the new chief underwriting officer for Zurich’s Global Corporate in North America (GCiNA).The position was previously held by Patrick Daley, who will assume a new role as head of Property for the East...
Jan 6 2016 // The New Jersey Insurance Underwriting Association (NJIUA), the state’s residual property insurance plan, said it has received approval from the Department of Banking and Insurance to implement an overall rate...
Jan 6 2016 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has agreed to buy IHC Risk Solutions and its direct employer stop loss (ESL) business from Independence Holding Co. for $152.5 million in cash. The transaction includes IHC Risk...
Jan 6 2016 // Aspen Insurance, the insurance segment of Bermuda-based Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd., announced the appointment of new global product heads as part of its strategy to leverage its global platform and better align product...