All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 14 2016 // Florida homeowners’ insurer Olympus Insurance Co., a leading Florida homeowners insurer, has promoted Bradley Burton to executive vice president of Underwriting and Business Development.In his new role, Burton will...
Sep 12 2016 // Global insurance broker Hub International Ltd. has acquired New Dimensions Underwriters Ltd. Based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, New Dimensions is a managing general agency. Russ Davis, the owner and president of New...
Sep 12 2016 // Chubb announced that Jamie Keaney, formerly European Personal Risk Services underwriting manager, has been promoted to the new role of vice president and chief underwriting officer for International Personal Risk Services,...
Sep 12 2016 // Ronnell Agatep has joined XL Catlin’s global retail Accident & Health (A&H) insurance business as its global head of underwriting. Based in New York, Agatep assumes this newly-created role to drive product...
Sep 7 2016 // Chicago Underwriting Group Inc., the professional liability underwriting division of Old Republic Insurance Co., is changing its name to Old Republic Professional Liability Inc. The company said the new name more clearly...
Sep 7 2016 // Beth Goldberg has joined Starr Companies as chief underwriting officer, Financial Lines. She will be responsible for sales, underwriting, profitability and growth. Goldberg has 17 years of experience with international...
Sep 6 2016 // It’s been a rough ride, full of twists, turns and a few roadblocks for truckers and their insurance specialists.Truckers today face a number of obstacles that have raised the cost of doing business, including tough...
Sep 1 2016 // Pat Kilkenny and Bob Kimmel put the K’s in K2 Insurance Services five years ago. That’s when they began using their combined 60 years of insurance experience to work buying up and developing businesses with the...
Aug 31 2016 // Sompo Canopius AG is diving into the U.S. ocean marine business. The global specialty insurer and reinsurer, which is wholly-owned by Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Inc., calls this a “significant expansion”...
Aug 30 2016 // Property/casualty insurers in North America saw their operating income decline by double digits in the first half of 2016, as investment income plunged and catastrophe losses rose.Fitch Ratings looked at 44 insurers and...
Aug 26 2016 // Xuber, the insurance software business of Xchanging, a unit of CSC, announced the delivery of its “Xuber for MGAs” platform for London-based Castel Underwriting Agencies Ltd.Xuber for MGAs is a flexible digital...
Aug 25 2016 // New Day Underwriting Managers LLC, a Hamilton, N.J., based specialty intermediary of environmental and construction related professional liability insurance, has hired Cara Giquinto as a senior account manager in its real...
Aug 24 2016 // The business outlook for the London insurance market is a familiar one across other global markets: underwriting profits are under pressure as ongoing soft market prices begin to take a toll.In separate reports on the...
Aug 22 2016 // ArgoGlobal, the Lloyd’s insurer and member of Argo Group, announced the appointment of Steve O’Gorman as head of Marine, effective Aug. 22.He reports to Bruno Ritchie, director of underwriting and active...
Aug 17 2016 // Newly formed Watford Specialty Insurance Co. (WSIC), a subsidiary of Bermuda-based Watford Re, took a big leap forward recently with its acquisition of a carrier with admitted licenses in all 50 states and the District of...
Aug 10 2016 // Talbot Underwriting Services Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Validus Holdings, Ltd. has launched political risk insurance binding authority from its New York office, underwritten 100 percent by various underwriters at...
Aug 8 2016 // Great efforts have been made recently to disintermediate the insurance process. One prevalent example of this is by routing insureds directly to the carrier, bypassing the independent agency distribution channel.More and...
Aug 4 2016 // Toronto-based The Guarantee Company of North America announced that Donna Barclay has been appointed as chief underwriting officer, property/casualty, effective July 25, 2016.Barclay is responsible for ensuring the company...
Aug 3 2016 // Professional Program Insurance Brokerage of Novato Calif. has named Susan Etter vice president of underwriting. Etter has been with PPIB for six years managing the underwriting and sales staff. Etter will continue to...
Aug 3 2016 // American International Group Inc., the largest commercial insurer in the United States and Canada, reported an operating profit that beat analysts’ estimate, driven by lower costs and strong underwriting during the...