All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 18 2015 // J.M. Wilson has added Danyelle Stum as transportation underwriter in its Carmel, Ind., office. Stum will quote new and renewal transportation accounts, and serve independent insurance agents in Indiana. Prior to joining...
Dec 17 2015 // Hiscox London Market has appointed Richard Golder as Marine Cargo Line Underwriter, marking the insurer’s re-entry into the marine cargo business. Golder will be supported by Jack Bryan who takes on the role of...
Dec 17 2015 // Specialty MGA, Nexus Underwriting Management Limited, announced that it has acquired City of London based Millstream Underwriting Limited, an independent managing general agency specializing in travel personal accident and...
Dec 17 2015 // J.M. Wilson has hired Ashley Montgomery as assistant underwriter in its Kansas City, Mo., office.Montgomery assists the property/casualty and transportation underwriting departments with setting up and binding policies for...
Dec 15 2015 // J.M. Wilson has hired Cassie Henderson-Paul as assistant property/casualty underwriter in its Arlington Heights, Ill., office.Henderson-Paul assists the property casualty underwriting department with setting up and binding...
Dec 15 2015 // Adam Holberry has been appointed as Hiscox London Market’s new head of Alternative Distribution as the business looks to work with brokers and underwriting partners to develop new and additional areas of insurance...
Dec 14 2015 // First, let’s be clear – this is only a SMALL sampling of simple questions agents and underwriters fail to ask! There are dozens of simple, common sense questions that are often skipped – why remains a...
Dec 14 2015 // Specialist Lloyd’s underwriter Marketform announced the appointment of Robert Brown as the Global Practice Leader of its Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Insurance operations.He joins to lead the team of...
Dec 10 2015 // Dallas, TX, December 10, 2015- U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc., the nations’ sixth largest Property and Casualty wholesaler announced that it has acquired Matias Underwriters, LLC and has named Glenn Matias National...
Dec 10 2015 // Normandy Insurance has hired Frank Primato has been hired as senior field underwriter. In his new position, Primato will develop and service the agency distribution network in Central Florida.Primato has more than 14 years...
Dec 9 2015 // Dallas, TX, December 9, 2015- 2015 has been a big year for mergers and acquisitions in our industry. You read consolidation news everyday…Willis to buy Towers Watson…Confie acquires another broker…Gen...
Dec 8 2015 // Rockhill Insurance Group, based in Kansas City, Mo., announced it has realigned its organizational underwriting structure to better serve wholesale brokers.Chief Operating OfficerDoug Goodenow presides over three main...
Dec 8 2015 // Red Shield Insurance Co. has named Kevin Tufts an underwriting department manager in Portland, Ore. Tufts has 21 years of experience in commercial lines underwriting. He started his insurance career as a workers’...
Dec 8 2015 // U.S. commercial insurance market segments, including directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance, are continuing to soften and are likely to stay on this path for the near-term even as several large competitors...
Dec 8 2015 // Given the fact that the insurance industry paid out more than $400 million in highly publicized cyber liability insurance claims in 2014 alone, one might think that insurers would be shying away from the line.But one would...
Dec 7 2015 // Given the fact that the insurance industry paid out more than $400 million in highly publicized cyber liability insurance claims in 2014 alone, one might think that insurers would be shying away from the line.But one would...
Dec 7 2015 // The past 10 years has been incredibly profitable for insurance companies. Net income for the industry – that is net, not pretax – has equaled $448 billion; that’s almost half a trillion dollars. It is not chump...
Dec 2 2015 // U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc., a managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler based in Dallas, announced that it has acquired Matias Underwriters LLC in Boston. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Matias...
Dec 2 2015 // Ascot Underwriting Ltd., the London-based Lloyd’s managing agency, has appointed Simon Kimberley as chief underwriting officer of Ascot Underwriting (Bermuda) Ltd.Kimberley transferred to AUB in 2014 as underwriter...
Dec 2 2015 // ACE Ltd. announced the leadership team it has appointed for the company’s Global Surety business unit, which will take effect upon completion of the acquisition of Chubb, expected in the first quarter of 2016.As...