Latest Excess Surplus Headlines
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London’s Electronic Placements Exceed Targets; Beazley Syndicate 3623 Ranks #1
Nov 20 2018 // The London market’s electronic placing platform, PPL Ltd., exceeded targets during the third quarter as more and more syndicates and companies accepted risks via the platform. Beazley Syndicate 3623 topped the league...
AFL Insurance Brokers Finds Cultural Fit with U.S. MGA Zodiac
Nov 19 2018 // AFL Insurance Brokers, the London-based Lloyd’s broker, was looking for an MGA platform in the United States and found the perfect partner when it purchased Zodiac Insurance Services, which specializes in...
Leicht Elected President of Texas Surplus Lines Association
Nov 16 2018 // At its recent annual meeting, the Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. elected Matt Leicht, owner/underwriter at the Houston-based wholesale insurance firm, Craig & Leicht, as the group’s president. Jennifer...
Liberty Mutual Restructures Distribution for Commercial & Specialty Products
Nov 16 2018 // Liberty Mutual has introduced a new distribution model for the U.S. in an effort to improve broker access to the insurer’s full suite of commercial and specialty insurance products. Shaun Kelly, president Global Risk...
Tower Hill Specialty Expands Property Insurance Offerings to Missouri
Nov 15 2018 // Ohio-based insurance provider Tower Hill Specialty LLC says its property insurance products available are now available in Missouri. A subsidiary of Tower Hill Insurance Group LLC headquartered in Gainesville, Florida,...
Lloyd’s Officially Opens Its EU Headquarters, Lloyd’s Brussels
Nov 13 2018 // Lloyd’s, the insurance and reinsurance market, officially opened Lloyd’s Brussels, its post-Brexit headquarters in the European Union. Lloyd’s Brussels is Lloyd’s first Europe-wide operation and...
Marsh Forms Specialty Business, ‘Marsh-JLT Specialty;’ Names Executive Team
Nov 13 2018 // Marsh announced the formation of Marsh-JLT Specialty, a new specialty business within Marsh that will combine the specialty teams of Marsh and Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc (JLT), effective upon the closing of the...
Lloyd’s Appoints Maidment from Beazley as Board Member
Nov 8 2018 // Lloyd’s has appointed Neil Maidment from Beazley Plc as an independent non-executive of the board with effect from February 2019. The new appointment, for an initial term of three years, will be effective once...
Patrick Ryan Hails Program Business Amid Retail Consolidation, Moves Toward MGAs
Nov 8 2018 // Target Markets Program Administrator Association Industry Keynote Speaker Patrick G. Ryan, founder, chairman and CEO, Ryan Specialty Group, addressed attendees at the group’s 18th Annual Summit on Oct. 22., in...
AIG Finalizes Acquisition of Program Manager Glatfelter Insurance
Nov 7 2018 // American International Group said it has completed the acquisition of insurance program manager Glatfelter Insurance Group, a deal announced in September. The addition is a key element in AIG’s strategy to reposition...
Swiss Re Taps XL’s LaRocca to Lead Property/Specialty Lines North America
Nov 7 2018 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions appoints Michael LaRocca as head of Property & Specialty Lines North America, effective November 7, 2018. In this role, LaRocca will be responsible for managing the strategy, development...
Why It’s Important to Understand Your Carriers
Nov 5 2018 // I have been analyzing the insurance industry and individual insurers and agencies for a long time now. When I started analyzing the industry, I never imagined, and I have not met any industry veterans who could imagine,...
AIG Executives Outline Path to Underwriting Profit in 2019
Nov 2 2018 // “We do see it coming. We expect that in 2019 we’re going to be in an underwriting profit position, not a great one, but a profit. And we’ll move from there to a great one.” So said Brian...
Brit Global Specialty USA Appoints King as Chief Underwriting Officer
Oct 31 2018 // John King has been named chief underwriting officer for Brit Global Specialty USA. King moves to BGSU, based in Chicago, from his current role as group executive underwriter at Brit Global Specialty in London. King brings...
AFL Insurance Brokers Finds Good Strategic, Cultural Fit with U.S. MGA Zodiac
Oct 29 2018 // AFL Insurance Brokers, the London-based Lloyd’s broker, was looking for an MGA platform in the United States and found the perfect partner last month when it purchased Zodiac Insurance Services, which specializes in...
Chubb CEO Says Lloyd’s Hasn’t Adapted to Changed World
Oct 26 2018 // Chubb President and CEO Evan Greenberg offered positive words about new Lloyd’s of London CEO John Neal, though he cautioned that the venerable insurance marketplace has a long way to go to address “long-term...
NIF Group Hires Schutz as an Excess and Surplus Lines Broker in Massachusetts
Oct 24 2018 // NIF Group Inc., a New York-based wholesale broker, program administrator and managing general agency, has hired Erich A. Schutz as an excess and surplus lines broker in the East Douglas, Mass., branch office. Schutz joins...
To Insure Cyber or Not to Insure Cyber: Cautions and Caveats for Carriers
Oct 22 2018 // While there are some issues with the data, virtually every report shows the cyber insurance market growing. Aon Benfield had it growing 37 percent last year to $1.8 billion. It’s profitable and the loss ratio is in...
Chubb Bermuda Names Gonsalves Division President, Succeeding Clabby
Oct 19 2018 // Chubb has appointed Judy Gonsalves vice president of Chubb Group and division president of Bermuda. In this capacity, she has executive operating responsibility for the Bermuda-based commercial property and casualty (P/C)...
Update: Liberty Mutual Conducts Strategic Review of Pembroke Managing Agency
Oct 18 2018 // Liberty Mutual Insurance announced it is undertaking a strategic review of its London-based Pembroke Managing Agency Ltd., acquired through the lronshore purchase in May of 2017. The company has retained Evercore to serve...
