Latest Excess Surplus Headlines
All the headlines from our Excess Surplus Topic Page, ordered by recency.
RT Specialty Promotes May to President, National Personal Lines Practice in Houston
Feb 6 2020 // R-T Specialty LLC has promoted Claudia May, based in Houston, to co-president of the company’s national personal lines practice. May has concentrated on personal lines since the start of her career over 25 years ago....
K2 Insurance of U.S. to Acquire UK’s Pioneer Underwriters
Feb 5 2020 // California-based specialty insurance holding company K2 Insurance Services is acquiring London-based Pioneer Underwriters. Pioneer will form the cornerstone for a new international platform of K2. This will initially...
California Leads Nation in Surplus Lines Premiums on 5th Year of Record Growth
Feb 4 2020 // Premium data from all surplus lines stamping offices for 2019 shows that California once again led the nation in total surplus line premiums, possibly boosted by construction spending and wildfires. The Surplus Line...
R-T Specialty Names Adcock, May President of National Personal Lines Practice
Feb 4 2020 // R-T Specialty LLC has named Dave Adcock and Claudia May as President of RT Specialty’s National Personal Lines Practice. Adcock began his insurance career as a personal lines underwriter in 2000 and joined RT...
The Unique Requirements of a Lloyd’s Syndicate-in-a-Box
Feb 4 2020 // Lloyd’s developed the concept of a syndicate-in-a-box (SiaB) to make it easier for innovative capital to enter the market, but there are certain requirements and differences compared to traditional syndicates. The...
Lloyd’s 1st Syndicate-in-a-Box, Operated by Munich Re, Aims to Be an Innovation Lab
Feb 4 2020 // Lloyd’s of London is expecting big things for 2020 as it rolls out the key initiatives for its massive modernization project designed make it easier to do business with Lloyd’s and, ultimately, reduce the cost...
MS Amlin Appoints 4 Senior Leaders Within Specialty Business
Jan 30 2020 // MS Amlin, the global re/insurer, announced the appointments of four senior leaders within the Specialty business, who will report to Mark Clements and Andrew Wright, co-chief underwriting officers of MS Amlin Underwriting...
Is the Re/Insurance Industry Ready for the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
Jan 29 2020 // Industry transformations occur when the pain of staying the same is suddenly greater than the pain of changing, according to Karen White, CEO of RMS. “The second thing that has got to be present for those...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Hanover Excess & Surplus of North Carolina
Jan 29 2020 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has aquired Wilmington, N.C.-based Hanover Excess & Surplus, Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1970, Hanover Excess & Surplus is a regional managing...
Swiss Re Corporate Taps Ex-Allianz Exec Willauer as Head Property & Specialty, EMEA
Jan 28 2020 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has appointed Bianca Willauer as head Property & Specialty Lines, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), effective Feb. 1, 2020. In this role, Willauer will be responsible for the...
First Acceptance, IBI Offer Specialty Auto Program to Indiana Agents
Jan 28 2020 // First Acceptance Corp., a specialty auto insurance carrier with retail locations in 15 states, and Greenwood, Indiana-based Insurance Brokers Inc. (IBI) have made Acceptance auto insurance available to Indiana independent...
Texas E&S Premium Up 14.3% in 2019, Stamping Office Says
Jan 27 2020 // Excess and surplus lines insurance premium (E&S) in Texas reached $6.95 billion in 2019, a 14.36% increase over 2018’s premium total of $6.08 billion, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas...
SLTX: Surplus Lines Flood Insurance Premium Up in Texas over 5 Years
Jan 24 2020 // Surplus lines flood insurance premium filed with the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) has increased annually over the past five years, according to SLTX. Additionally, while NFIP premium dipped in 2017, it...
Travelers Reports Strong Q4, Full Year Results on Lower Catastrophe Losses
Jan 23 2020 // Strong quarterly and full year 2019 results for Travelers Cos. were helped by lower catastrophe losses and premium hikes. Net income rose to $873 million in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 from $621 million for the same...
Sompo International Hires Allied World’s James to Run International Insurance Business
Jan 23 2020 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty property and casualty re/insurer, announced that Julian James will soon join the organization to lead the London market and international insurance...
AGCS Appoints Haagen as Chief Underwriting Officer Specialty, Succeeding O’Neill
Jan 22 2020 // Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS), the corporate insurance carrier of Allianz Group, appointed Henning Haagen as chief underwriting officer specialty and member of the board of management, subject to...
MGA Incubator Castel Taps Carlos from Arch Insurance as Head of Specialty
Jan 17 2020 // Castel Underwriting Agencies Ltd., the managing general agent and club-style MGA formation platform, has announced the appointment of Raoul Carlos as head of Specialty as it structures its underwriting cells and MGAs into...
P/C Insurers Boosted Underwriting Profit, Surplus in 2019’s First 9 Months
Jan 17 2020 // The private U.S. property/casualty insurance industry saw its net underwriting gains increase to $5.4 billion in the first nine months of 2019 from $4.7 billion a year earlier, bolstered by growth in premiums and a drop in...
HCI to Acquire Policies of Florida’s Anchor P&C; Weston to Acquire Anchor Specialty
Jan 15 2020 // Two Florida-based homeowners insurers, Anchor Property & Casualty and Anchor Specialty Insurance, have succumbed to market pressures in the state and will be acquired by other companies. Tampa, Fla.-based HCI Group has...
Lloyd’s Performance Management Director Hancock to Step Down in 2020
Jan 14 2020 // Lloyd’s announced that Jon Hancock has decided to step down as performance management director in 2020. At the same time, Lloyd’s also announced that Julia Tyson has been named chief human resources officer,...
