All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 24 2015 // Hamilton Underwriting Limited, the managing agency of Lloyd’s Syndicate 3334 and the Lloyd’s operations of Hamilton Insurance Group, announced that Simon Barrett has been appointed to the position of chief...
Sep 15 2015 // The Office of the Attorney General of Texas (OAG) has issued an open records ruling indicating that residential property underwriting guidelines are not made confidential by Insurance Code, Section 38.002, the Texas...
Sep 14 2015 // Bermuda-based Sequant Re appointed Victor Baillargeon as chief underwriting officer.With over 35 years of underwriting experience, Baillargeon will lead the development of Sequant Re’s underwriting strategies that...
Sep 8 2015 // Castel Underwriting Agencies, the club-style MGA formation platform, has today appointed Vanessa Powell as its first claims manager.Powell joins from Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group where she was aviation claims manager....
Sep 8 2015 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Company (BHSI) announced it is providing comprehensive insurance and services for the construction industry in Australia and named a team of executives to oversee key areas of its...
Sep 7 2015 // Insurance underwriters claim they shouldn’t have to reimburse a charity for payouts to golf fans for two holes-in-one made during the PGA Tour’s Greenbrier Classic in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., because the...
Sep 7 2015 // I recently listened to an insurance company executive give a discombobulated, “woe is me” speech to a room of agents who were largely ignorant of carriers’ financial success.To summarize his presentation:...
Sep 7 2015 // Lloyd’s international casualty reinsurance underwriters are running the risk of repeating the same mistakes that have placed the market in difficulty in the past, according to a new poll of Lloyd’s reinsurance...
Sep 7 2015 // Times are good for surplus lines professionals.The surplus lines industry reached new heights in 2014, growing direct premium written (DPW) in 2014 to $40.2 billion – the highest point in history, reports A.M....
Sep 3 2015 // Dallas, TX, September 3 2015- U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc. (www.usrisk.com), the sixth largest managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler in the nation, announced they have entered into an agreement involving...
Sep 2 2015 // ACE Group announced six appointments to its ACE Global Markets (AGM) and ACE Overseas General (AOG) energy teams. All appointments are based in London and are effective immediately.Matthew Hardy has been appointed product...
Sep 1 2015 // Lloyd’s international casualty reinsurance underwriters are running the risk of repeating the same mistakes that have placed the market in difficulty in the past, according to a new straw poll of Lloyd’s...
Aug 31 2015 // Hamilton Underwriting Limited, the Lloyd’s managing agency of Bermuda-based holding company Hamilton Insurance Group, has hired Trevor Carvey as head of treaty.Carvey will report to Dermot O’Donohoe, chief...
Aug 28 2015 // Concord Specialty Risk, a New York City-based managing general underwriter and underwriting agent for a number of carriers and a series of RSG Underwriting Managers LLC, specializing in providing transactional risk...
Aug 27 2015 // Continental Underwriters, a Richmond, Virginia-based managing general agency/wholesaler specializing in the placement of insurance for lumber and forest products operations, hired Corey Bounds as loss control director and...
Aug 25 2015 // ANV Underwriters, the international managing general underwriter (MGU) segment of global specialty insurance group ANV, has appointed Christina Lippert as professional lines underwriting manager for Europe.Based in...
Aug 24 2015 // CNA has appointed Julie Stephenson as senior vice president and chief underwriting officer for CNA Commercial. In this role, Stephenson will be responsible for underwriting oversight and governance for all business written...
Aug 21 2015 // Insurance underwriters claim they shouldn’t be responsible for reimbursing a charity for payouts to golf fans for two holes-in-one made during the PGA Tour’s Greenbrier Classic in White Sulphur Springs, West...
Aug 21 2015 // Shariah-compliant managing general agent Cobalt Underwriting has been selected as the insurer of preference for the proposed London Paramount Entertainment Resort in Kent, England.Valued at £3 billion ($4.6 billion), the...
Aug 20 2015 // Federal health insurance reforms may cause a major disruption in the group insurance market, according to the Texas Association of Health Underwriters, a professional association of insurance agents and brokers who focus...