Latest Casualty Headlines

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Iron-Excess Names 3 to Specialty Casualty Posts for U.S., London

Oct 30 2017 // Ironshore announced the appointments of three executives to underwrite Specialty Casualty risk in U.S. and London markets. Iron-Excess, the excess underwriting unit of Ironshore Insurance Services formed in September 2017,...

AIG Expanding Commercial Casualty Policies to Include Cyber Coverage

Oct 27 2017 // American International Group Inc. said it would include cyber coverage to its commercial casualty insurance during the first quarter of 2018, a move that would boost rates but make it clearer how customers are covered if...

Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Acquires Indiana’s Williams & Associates

Oct 25 2017 // Boca Raton, Florida-based Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc. has acquired Williams & Associates Insurance, headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Led by Scott Davis, Williams & Associates has offices in...

Lockton Mountain West Names Rider to Property/Casualty Team

Oct 5 2017 // Robin R. Rider has been named a client services executive in Lockton’s Mountain West office. She will serve the Denver, Colo. and Las Vegas, Nev. offices as a member of the property/casualty team. She has been...

A.M. Best Upgrades Credit Rating of Farm Bureau Property & Casualty Group in Iowa

Oct 3 2017 // A.M. Best has upgraded the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “a+” from “a” and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of “A” of Farm Bureau Property & Casualty Insurance Co. and...

Seeman Holtz Continues Florida Expansion With Acquisitions of 3 Agencies

Sep 26 2017 // Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty, Inc. has acquired three different agencies in Florida as part of its geographic expansion and continued growth throughout the United States. The three Florida agencies most recently...

Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Acquires Austin’s RateGenius Insurance Agency

Sep 24 2017 // Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc., based in Boca Raton, Florida, has acquired RateGenius Insurance Agency Inc., an affiliate of RateGenius, headquartered in Austin, Texas. Serving all of Texas for almost 10 years,...

General Star Names 4 to New Primary Casualty Specialist Team

Sep 22 2017 // General Star Management Co. has crated a new Primary Casualty Specialist Team within the Casualty Brokerage Division. The new team will consist of Maria Manuli (Primary practice leader), Ed Felcyn, Michelle Yoshida and...

Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Acquires DernCo Insurance in Wisconsin

Sep 18 2017 // Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc. has acquired DernCo Insurance, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis. Serving both Wisconsin and Colorado for more than 25 years, Rich Dern and his team have been offering a full...

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Sep 18 2017 // Detroit, Mich.-based H.W. Kaufman Financial Group named Daniel J. Kaufman senior vice president of corporate growth. Kaufman will continue to serve as managing director and lead the Chicago, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and...

Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Acquires Stirling Insurance of Florida

Sep 14 2017 // Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty, Inc. (SHP&C) has acquired Stirling Insurance Services, Inc., headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. Stirling has served all of Florida for over 28, led by Terry Sgammato and his...

Chubb Names Capparelli as North America Global Casualty Executive VP

Sep 13 2017 // Chubb has appointed Lou Capparelli as executive vice president of its Global Casualty business unit, which provides a full range of domestic and foreign casualty insurance coverage offerings to large national and...

Colony Specialty Appoints York as North Region Casualty Manager

Sep 13 2017 // Colony Specialty, a member of Argo Group International Holdings Ltd., has appointed Mike York as regional manager of the North Region within its U.S. Casualty Division. York will report to Tim Williams, vice president of...

New York’s BOLT Solutions Hires Temple as Managing Director

Sep 5 2017 // BOLT Solutions Inc., a New York-headquartered provider of an online distribution and customer support platform for the property and casualty insurance industry, has hired Tom Temple as managing director of business...

Brit Global Specialty USA Taps Aspen’s Liening as SVP, Excess Casualty

Aug 22 2017 // Brit Ltd. announced it has appointed Jonathan Liening as senior vice president, Excess Casualty, for Brit Global Specialty USA. Liening joins BGSU, effective Aug. 21, and is based in Chicago. He reports to Douglas Trainor....

Maxum’s Lucas Joins Everest Re to Head U.S. Casualty Facultative Programs

Aug 21 2017 // Darwin Lucas has joined Everest Reinsurance Co. as vice president and head of U.S. Casualty Programs for all general casualty and professional liability lines of coverage within the Facultative Reinsurance division. He...

Seeman Holtz Enters Texas Through Primera Casualty Acquisition

Aug 16 2017 // Boca Raton, Fla.-based Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc. has acquired Primera Capital, headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Primera’s Anthony Davis and team have been offering both auto insurance and tax services...

USI Southwest Names Glover Property/Casualty Practice Leader for North Texas

Aug 11 2017 // The Southwest region of USI Insurance Services (USI) appointed Joshua Glover as the property/casualty practice leader for North Texas. Glover will be based in USI’s Dallas office, reporting to Jack Wagner, USI...

Berkshire Hathaway Reports Losses on Re/Insurance Underwriting in Q2

Aug 7 2017 // Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway insurance and reinsurance businesses lost money or gained less in underwriting in the second quarter and first six months of 2017 compared to last year while his railroad,...

Exclusive Report: Top 100 Independent/Casualty Agencies

Aug 7 2017 // About This Report: Welcome to the 13th annual Insurance Journal Top 100 Independent P/C Agencies report. The Top 100 list is ranked by total property/casualty agency revenue for 2016 and comprises only those agencies whose...