All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 25 2015 // Joe Phifer, senior account executive in the Assurant Employee Benefits’ Dallas sales office, has been elected president of the Texas Association of Health Underwriters.Phifer begins serving his one-year term as...
Jun 25 2015 // XL Catlin announced the promotion of Joe Blenkinsopp to the position of chief underwriting officer for its Political Risk and Trade Credit (PRTC) team.Blenkinsopp assumes the role with immediate effect, having previously...
Jun 24 2015 // Scottsdale Insurance Co. announced that Gary Tiepelman, senior vice president of Contract and Professional Lines Underwriting, is retiring in August.Hired by founder Rollie Wiegers in 1982 as the company’s thirteenth...
Jun 24 2015 // Newbridge Risk Partners has launched operations on Castel Underwriting Agencies MGA formation platform, targeting political violence and terrorism risks in emerging markets.The new underwriting cell will be focused on the...
Jun 19 2015 // MarketScout, the national electronic insurance exchange and specialty MGA headquartered in Dallas, Texas, has expanded its Private Client Solutions (PCS) division with three new hires.According to Daniela Finch,...
Jun 18 2015 // Euclid Insurance Services Inc. (Euclid), based in Itasca, Ill., has formed Euclid Financial Institution Underwriters LLC (Euclid Financial) and hired David McDonald and Jim Thomas to lead the new operation. Euclid...
Jun 15 2015 // Geoff White, underwriting manager for Cyber, Technology and Media at Barbican Insurance Group, has been elected chairman of the Lloyd’s Market Association’s (LMA) newly created Cyber Business Panel.White was...
Jun 15 2015 // Specialist property catastrophe underwriting manager, Catalytic Holdings has hired industry veteran Sam Ramsey to lead its newly-formed wind underwriting business.Ramsey joins Catalytic from All-Risks Ltd. where he headed...
Jun 12 2015 // Chicago-based CNA hired Jay Dipasupil as vice president, Underwriting, Errors & Omissions for Professional Services and Financial Institutions, reporting to Chris Leisz, chief underwriting officer and senior vice...
Jun 12 2015 // “You would think the first question to ask would be: Do insured parties understand the elements and limitations of coverage?” said Kevin Kalinich, speaking on cyber risk. “The real first question is: Do...
Jun 12 2015 // AEGIS London has named David Croom-Johnson as its new managing director. The firm has also announced a series of promotions within its senior management team.Croom-Johnson, Syndicate 1225’s active underwriter since...
Jun 12 2015 // Projects to capture carbon emissions from power plants and store them permanently underground face “large risk premiums” from insurers because the technology is so new, Royal Dutch Shell plc...
Jun 10 2015 // Ironshore Inc. has named Kevin Whitehead as executive vice president and chief underwriting officer of the Specialty Casualty unit. He will be responsible for setting underwriting guidelines and strategies for existing and...
Jun 10 2015 // MarketScout, the national electronic insurance exchange and specialty MGA, has expanded its specialty high net worth underwriting practice with the addition of a new non-admitted $3.1 billion facility targeting agents with...
Jun 10 2015 // Two weeks ago we posted an article titled, “Are You One of THOSE Agents?” The article centered around some of the strange questions, comments or requests underwriters have received from their agents.Near the...
Jun 8 2015 // Specialist Lloyd’s underwriter Marketform has announced the promotion of Ian West to Head of Financial and Professional Lines. He will also continue as the Class Underwriter for Financial Lines, reporting to Chief...
Jun 5 2015 // Specialty Insurance Group (SIG), based in Indianapolis, has appointed Marla Peters as director of Underwriting. In addition to her director responsibilities, Peters will act as a production underwriter in the recreational...
Jun 4 2015 // Ascot Underwriting Ltd., the London-based Lloyd’s managing agency, has appointed Scott Beall as chief underwriting officer of casualty facultative and Lex Smart as senior vice president of Ascot Fac. The team will...
Jun 4 2015 // International General Insurance Holdings Limited (IGIH) announced that it has hired three senior underwriters at IGI UK “as part of a strategy for growing the London based operations.The company named Barry Marren as...
May 27 2015 // Insurance wholesaler J.M. Wilson added Andrea Farr in its Kansas City, Mo., office, as a property/casualty underwriter. Farr will serve independent insurance agents in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi and...