Latest Excess Surplus Headlines
All the headlines from our Excess Surplus Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Market/Coverages: Marsh Offers Bermuda Cyber Excess Facility With $30M of Capacity
Apr 10 2025 // Marsh, the insurance brokerage business of Marsh McLennan, announced the launch of CyberShore Bermuda, an exclusive, excess cyber insurance facility that provides Marsh clients with enhanced protection and a streamlined...
Vivere Partners in California Raises $7.5M for Specialty Insurance Platform
Apr 3 2025 // Vivere Partners, a specialty insurance platform focused on niche lines of insurance, completed a $7.5 million Series A funding round led by General Catalyst, Pathlight Ventures and Greenlight Re. The funding is intended to...
Excess & Surplus Insurer Ategrity Files for IPO
Mar 27 2025 // New York-based Ategrity Specialty Insurance Co., a national specialty property/casualty insurer focused on the excess and surplus (E&S) lines market, has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an...
How Cincinnati Insurance Does E&S
Mar 26 2025 // The Cincinnati Insurance Companies have grown business for 75 years through relationships with a carefully selected set of regional independent agents—and business in the surplus lines segment is no exception, executives...
Premium Growth Is Good but Disciplined Growth Is Better: Lloyd’s Execs
Mar 25 2025 // The Lloyd’s executives said the market has continued to demonstrate its value to stakeholders by delivering 6.5% premium growth while maintaining underwriting discipline. Lloyd’s saw a continuation of positive...
Fidelis Partnership Launches International Casualty MGA, Writing Primary, Excess Cover
Mar 24 2025 // Pine Walk Capital Ltd., the specialist MGA platform and wholly owned subsidiary of The Fidelis Partnership (TFP), announced the launch of an international casualty MGA called Sevanta Specialty Liability Ltd. Sevanta will...
Markets/Coverages: SiriusPoint, Broker Holmes Murphy’s Umbrella Excess for Captives
Mar 24 2025 // SiriusPoint Ltd., the Bermuda-based specialty insurer and reinsurer, announced a new strategic partnership with the independent insurance broker Holmes Murphy. SiriusPoint has partnered with Holmes Murphy, headquartered in...
Lloyd’s Register to Sell Modern Tower and Return to Victorian HQ
Mar 21 2025 // Lloyd’s Register, the maritime society formed in a London coffee house in 1760, has put its modern glass headquarters up for sale as it prepares to move back into the property built to house it more than a century...
People Moves: Liberty Specialty Markets Promotes Unstad as Head of Nordics; BHSI Appoints Howe as Head of Claims, Australasia
Mar 18 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Liberty Specialty Markets and Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance. A summary of these executive hires follows here. Liberty Specialty Markets Promotes...
Lloyd’s Said It Will Lose $2.3B From LA Wildfires
Mar 12 2025 // Lloyd’s this week said it will lose $2.3 billion from the Los Angeles wildfires in January, adding to the number of companies that have paid out more than $1 billion in losses from the catastrophe. The company...
People Moves: Marsh Promotes George as President of Marsh Specialty; Specialist Risk Group Taps Marsh’s Morgan as Head of Corporate for UK Retail Pillar
Mar 11 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the brokers Marsh and Specialist Risk Group (SRG). A summary of these new hires follows here. Marsh Promotes George as President of Marsh...
People Moves: WSIA Elects Officers; RSUI’s McCrorie Becomes Chair
Mar 11 2025 // Wholesale & Specialty Insurance Association (WSIA) members elected Phillip McCrorie to serve as 2025-2026 WSIA Chair. McCrorie serves as CEO and chairman of RSUI. He joined the WSIA Board in 2021 and the executive...
Markets/Coverages: Liberty Specialty Markets, Baobab Offer E-Crime Cover for SMEs
Mar 11 2025 // Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), a division of the US Liberty Mutual Group, and Baobab Insurance, a digital underwriter of technical risks, are offering a new joint e-crime insurance product for small and medium-sized...
People Moves: Courtney to Lead Nationwide’s Newest E&S Brokerage Property Unit
Mar 7 2025 // Tonya Courtney Nationwide, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, appointed Tonya Courtney to lead its new excess and surplus (E&S) brokerage property unit with the goal of opening for business in the second half of the...
Markets/Coverages: Ryan Launches Specialty National Programs Group
Mar 5 2025 // Global specialty insurance firm Ryan Specialty is launching a new practice group focusing on specialty, class specific package business on both an admitted and non-admitted basis. The new group will be within its...
Florida E&S Market Leveling Off After Years of Growth, FSLSO Data Show
Mar 5 2025 // The steady growth in excess and surplus lines’ business in Florida appears to be leveling off, another sign that the insurance market in the state is settling down after years of turbulence. “January’s...
People Moves: Wilson Named Deputy Chair of Argenta Syndicate Mgmt as Whiter Steps Down; Specialty MGA UK Hires Hussain as Head of Political, Credit Risk
Mar 4 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Argenta Syndicate Management and Specialty MGA UK. A summary of these new hires follows here. Wilson Named Deputy Chair of Argenta Syndicate Mgmt as Whiter...
Price Forbes Re Taps Aon’s Power for Alternative Risk and Capital Solutions; AXA XL Promotes Kilshaw as Head of Broker Mgmt., Alternative Distribution, UK & Lloyd’s
Mar 3 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Price Forbes Re and AXA XL. A summary of these new hires follows here. Price Forbes Re (PF Re) announced the appointment of Sherman Power to the newly...
People Moves: Faynberg to Head Chubb’s Healthy Paws; D’Onofrio Promoted to Global CUO of Ryan Specialty Underwriting Managers
Feb 28 2025 // Westchester, Chubb’s excess and surplus lines company, said Alex Faynberg was appointed to executive vice president and head of pet insurer Health Paws, effective March 3. Alex Faynberg In his new role, Faynberg will...
Templar Specialty Expanding Executive and Professional Liability Insurance Offerings
Feb 27 2025 // Templar Specialty announced that it is now expanding its executive and professional liability insurance offerings to include excess and A-side Directors & Officers coverage to public companies. This follows the success...
