Latest Excess Surplus Headlines
All the headlines from our Excess Surplus Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Why Wholesale Insurance Brokers Are Under Continuing Pressure to Sell
Feb 13 2018 // Wholesale insurance brokers have been selling off their businesses and it’s not because they are all ready to retire. As in the retail agency segment, consolidation among wholesale brokerages is being driven by...
Nexus Acquires D&O and Financial Institutions MGA Apsley Specialty
Feb 13 2018 // Independent specialty managing general agent Nexus Group announced it has completed the acquisition of Apsley Specialty Ltd., a registered Lloyd’s coverholder. Financial details of the transaction were not...
Ryan Specialty Group Agrees to Buy UK P&I MGA Lodestar Marine from Tawa
Feb 13 2018 // Ryan Specialty Group LLC (RSG) announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire London-based Lodestar Marine Ltd., an MGA in the protection & indemnity (P&I) fixed premium marine market, from Tawa...
Mickletz to Lead Everest Insurance Excess Casualty Division in the Southeast
Feb 13 2018 // Jeff Mickletz has joined Everest Insurance as director and senior underwriter within the Excess Casualty division of Everest Specialty Casualty. He will be handling the Southeast territory of the United States. According...
Liberty Specialty Markets’ French Operation to Expand Product Range, Increase Team
Feb 12 2018 // Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance, is to broaden the range of product lines underwritten by its French operation and increase the size of its team. It will also make a series of investments...
ArgoGlobal Launches Lloyd’s Market Motor Treaty Consortium, Supported by Barbican
Feb 12 2018 // ArgoGlobal, the Lloyd’s insurer and member of Argo Group, announced the launch of the first Lloyd’s market consortium for motor treaty business. The consortium, led by ArgoGlobal and supported by Barbican...
Validus Specialty Launches Standalone Cyber Insurance Product
Feb 8 2018 // The Cyber and Technology insurance group of Validus Specialty Underwriting Services, Inc. have expanded its offering with a standalone cyber insurance product focused on privacy and network protection coverage. The product...
The Hartford Adds Employee Benefits, E&S Options to Small Business Online Quote System
Feb 5 2018 // The Hartford has enhanced ICON, its online quoting system for agents and brokers, to include access to quote employee benefits as well as excess and surplus (E&S) coverage for their small business customers. Employee...
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Feb 5 2018 // Boca Raton, Fla.-based Universal Insurance Services, LLC, a subsidiary of Vanbridge, LLC, has added Jamie Lorentz to the firm as an analyst for Corporate and Institutional Insurance. Lorentz joins Universal from...
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Feb 5 2018 // Texas Security General Insurance Agency LLC (TSGA) in San Antonio, Texas, added David A. Winkley as vice president of Commercial Lines. A former business owner, Winkley has industry experience in retail production,...
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Feb 5 2018 // David Kramer and Theodore Nittis have launched Gemini Risk Partners as an independent professional liability insurance brokerage in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The firm will focus on serving law firms, as it did when it...
London Market Single Claims Agreement Launched to Improve Claims Handling
Feb 1 2018 // The London market has launched a simplified system for claims handling in an effort to improve client service and streamline claims agreement across the London market. The Single Claims Agreement is designed “to...
Froman to Lead McLarens’ Business Development from Atlanta
Feb 1 2018 // Global loss adjusting firm McLarens has promoted Susan Froman to senior vice president, Business Development – The Americas. Froman joined McLarens three years ago to recruit and establish the domestic business...
Surplus Lines Market Had a Record Breaking Year in 2017
Jan 31 2018 // Across the United States, all 15 surplus lines service offices experienced increases in excess and surplus (E&S) lines insurance premium, totaling $28.1 billion, the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX)...
Lloyd’s Market Association to Offer International Courses, Technical Programs
Jan 31 2018 // The Lloyd’s Market Association Academy (LMA Academy) announced that, starting in March, it will begin offering a range of technical programs and courses internationally. The expansion builds on the success of the...
Ryan Specialty Group Launches Latin America MGA, Capital Bay Underwriting
Jan 29 2018 // Ryan Specialty Group (RSG) has launched a Latin American-focused managing general underwriter, Capital Bay Underwriting, based in Miami. Capital Bay’s central emphasis is financial lines re/insurance products for...
Bloomberg Interview with Lloyd’s CEO Beale in Davos: Economic Outlook, Asia Growth, Cyber, Brexit and More
Jan 26 2018 // Lloyd’s of London, the world’s oldest insurance market, is experiencing year-on-year growth of 100 percent in some of its Asian markets, where growing economies are fueling demand for cover from the...
Ryan Specialty Group to Acquire New York’s Irwin Siegel Agency
Jan 24 2018 // Ryan Specialty Group LLC has reached a definitive agreement to acquire the assets and operations of the Irwin Siegel Agency Inc. (ISA). Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. ISA is a human and social service managing...
$19 Billion in Potential Losses from Cloud Services Failure Mostly Uninsured: Lloyd’s, AIR
Jan 23 2018 // A cyber problem that temporary shuts down a top U.S. cloud computing provider could trigger as much as $19 billion in business losses, only a fraction of which would be insured, Lloyd’s of London said in a report on...
AIG’s Dealmaker CEO Duperreault Says Validus ‘Fits Like a Glove’
Jan 23 2018 // American International Group Inc. is getting bigger again. Eight months after Chief Executive Officer Brian Duperreault took over and began to undo his predecessor’s retrenchment strategy, the company announced a...
