Latest Excess Surplus Headlines
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American Modern, American Express Property Casualty Form Partnership
Oct 11 2001 // American Modern Insurance Group and the American Express Property Casualty companies announced a partnership which adds manufactured home, motor home, travel trailer, and nonstandard specialty homeowner products to...
Missouri Awards State National Specialty Insurance Co.
Oct 10 2001 // The state of Missouri awarded State National Specialty Insurance Company a certificate of authority for writing multiple lines of insurance. This authorization allows State National Specialty to write casualty, marine and...
Lloyd’s Names Given Right to Appeal
Oct 9 2001 // 220 of the “Names” involved in litigation against Lloyd’s, known generally as the “Jaffray Case,” were given leave to appeal last November’s lower court judgment by Mr. Justice Cresswell...
Lloyd’s Wellington Ups Attack Loss Estimates, Plans Capacity Increase
Oct 8 2001 // Wellington Underwriting, a leading operator of a number of Lloyd’s Syndicates, announced that its losses from the September 11 attacks on the U.S. would be around £50 million ($73.5 million), substantially more...
Lloyd’s Estimates U.S. Disaster Losses at$1.91 Billion
Oct 8 2001 // Lloyd’s of London, the world’s oldest and most visible insurer, finally released its projected loss figures from the disastrous events of Sept. 11. According to the calculations from over 100 syndicates, net...
Will Reinsurance Rebound from Terrorist Strikes in the U.S.’
Oct 8 2001 // If the nautical term best applied to the reinsurance industry last year at this time would have been “steady as she goes,” after the catastrophe that struck the U.S. on Sept. 11, the French term “sauve...
Lloyd’s Questioned on Liquidity, Exposures
Oct 3 2001 // Lloyd’s has received a barrage of questions on its total exposures and its liquidity following the release of its projected net loss figure of $1.94 billion as a result of the attacks on the U.S. (See IJ Website...
Lloyd’s Moves to Strengthen Central Fund
Oct 1 2001 // Lloyd’s announced Friday that, in order to build up its Central Fund, it was increasing the monthly levy paid by all 108 syndicates to the Corporation of Lloyd’s from 1.1 percent to 2 percent of monthly...
Alleghany Estimates Lloyd’s Losses at $112M
Oct 1 2001 // Alleghany Insurance Holding LLC’s parent company announced that it estimated its subsidiary would have losses of around $112 million net of reinsurance from the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S. AIH, previously known as...
NAPSLO Retrospective: A Visit With Outgoing President John Latham
Sep 30 2001 // John Latham will step aside as National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) president later this month making room for Tap Johnson, Jr. Before his exit, he agreed to spend a few minutes with...
2,200 Attendees Expected at NAPSLO Convention, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian to Keynote 27th Annu
Sep 30 2001 // Tapley O. Johnson, Jr., incoming president of the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) and chairman of the annual convention, expects some 2,200 attendees at the 27th Annual Convention in San...
Incoming NAPSLO President Focuses on Regulatory Issues, Technology
Sep 30 2001 // When John Latham steps down as president of the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) in San Antonio later this month, Tapley O. Johnson, Jr., will take on the office as incoming president and...
Lloyd’s Puts Losses from U.S. Disasters at
Sep 27 2001 // Lloyd’s of London said Tuesday that it had completed a review of the potential loss liabilities from more than 100 of its 108 active underwriting syndicates and estimated that its overall net exposure from the...
American Modern Stops Writing Commercial Liability, Affirms Commitment to Specialty Markets
Sep 26 2001 // American Modern Insurance Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Midland Company and a provider of manufactured housing specialty insurance products and services, has ceased offering commercial liability products for...
A.M. Best Announces Rating Actions
Sep 25 2001 // A.M. Best announced a series of rating decisions affecting companies in the U.S., Europe and Canada. On a positive note it affirmed the A+ (Superior) rating of the Swiss Group Winterthur and the A-(Excellent ) ratings for...
The Role of Reinsurance in the World TradeCenter Attacks
Sep 24 2001 // The business of reinsurance is a comparatively small but integral part of the overall insurance industry. Simply defined, reinsurance is transacted on the basis of one insurance company, the “reinsurer,”...
True Loss from Sept. 11 Terrorist Attacks on U.S. is Immeasurable, As Estimates of Potential Insured
Sep 24 2001 // “The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man’s dedication to world peace, his belief in cooperation of men and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.” —Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1987),...
More Lloyd’s Insurers Estimate U.S. Losses
Sep 21 2001 // Several more Lloyd’s insurers have recently announced the potential impact their underwriting syndiactes face following the terrorist attacks in the U.S. Chaucer Holdings, Plc announced that it expected to incur...
S&P Lowers Ratings on Lloyd’s, Zurich- Puts 15 Others on Credit Watch/Negative
Sep 21 2001 // In the face of ever increasing loss assessments from insurers following the terrorist attacks in the U.S., Standard and Poor’s announced that it had downgraded Lloyd’s financial strength rating from...
Lloyd’s Assures on Losses, Sees War Risk
Sep 18 2001 // Lloyd’s announced that it had completed a preliminary assessment of the possible losses from last Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in the U.S., and although it gave no specific figures, it stated that “these...
