Latest Ironshore Insurance Headlines
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People Moves: Liberty Mutual Promotes Johnson From Ironshore; Federer Named CEO Fusion Specialty N.A.; Everest Re Hires Good as CISO
Jul 3 2023 // Liberty Mutual Names Johnson President of Field Operations & Marketing, Global Risk Solutions North America Liberty Mutual Insurance, based in Boston, Mass., appointed Ben Johnson as president of field operations &...
Liberty Mutual: Ironshore to Become Wholesale-Exclusive Brand
Sep 7 2022 // Liberty Mutual said it has repositioned its distribution strategy for specialty and excess & surplus products, making Ironshore a wholesale-exclusive brand. Going forward, all U.S. commercial, specialty and E&S...
4 Insurers, 5 Policies to Pay $73M Sandy Hook Settlement Against Gunmaker Remington
Feb 17 2022 // A federal bankruptcy court in Alabama has approved insurance payments totaling $73 million by four insurers to the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre. The settlement with gunmaker Remington Arms and its...
People Moves: Pancoast Moves to Ironshore E&S; PwC’s Coggins Leads Actuaries; McLean Joins Lockton from Willis
Nov 8 2021 // Pancoast to Head Ironshore’s E&S Primary Casualty Adam Pancoast has been named to lead the excess and surplus Primary Casualty business of Ironshore, a Liberty Mutual company. As national manager, E&S...
People Moves: AXA XL Names Clark as Marine Liabilities Global Practice Leader; Hamilton Hires Ironshore’s Marzec as Head of Management Liability for E&S
Sep 20 2021 // AXA XL Names Clark as Marine Liabilities Global Practice Leader AXA XL’s Global Marine insurance business has appointed Stephen Clark as its Marine Liabilities Global Practice leader. Based in Chicago, Clark assumes...
Ironshore Environmental Taps Argo’s Killimett to Lead Wholesale Underwriting Team
Aug 19 2020 // Ironshore Environmental has named Kelly Killimett to lead its newly established wholesale team. Killimett will be responsible for developing and executing an integrated underwriting and sales strategy dedicated to serving...
Munich Re Specialty Group Appoints Boo from Ironshore as Head of Asia
Apr 3 2020 // Munich Re Specialty Group (MRSG) has appointed Hui Yun Boo as head of Asia, effective April 3, 2020. Boo will be based in the firm’s Singapore office and will lead Munich Re Syndicate offices throughout the Asia...
Ironshore Expands, Realigns Its Wholesale Distribution with Branch Managers
Feb 13 2020 // Ironshore, the Liberty Mutual specialty insurance company, has expanded and realigned its wholesale distribution platform with local offices headed by branch managers. The company believes the new arrangement will better...
Court Rules Events After Email Instruction Don’t Erase Claim for Phishing Loss
Dec 12 2019 // A $1.7 million email phishing fraud that included phone calls with a fake lawyer and an intervention by a Wells Fargo fraud investigator is still a fraud and Ironshore Indemnity is liable for the claim, a split panel with...
Former Ironshore, Lexington CEO Kelley to Retire at Year’s End from Liberty Mutual
Nov 22 2019 // Liberty Mutual Insurance today announced that long-time industry leader Kevin H. Kelley, vice chairman, Global Risk Solutions, will retire at the end of this year. In 2017, Kelley joined Liberty Mutual following the...
Ironshore Names Leahy as President of Professional Liability Unit IronPro
Nov 1 2019 // Ironshore has announced that Thomas F. Leahy, Jr. has been named president of IronPro, its professional and management liability division. He will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of marketing, underwriting and...
Beazley Beefs Up U.S. Large Property Team with Berkshire’s Westhoff, Ironshore’s Irwin
Oct 29 2019 // Specialist insurer Beazley has appointed Matthew Westhoff as head of U.S. large commercial property based in New York. Westhoff will manage the US-based team, working alongside the property team in London. He brings 16...
New Ironshore Environmental App Offers Real-Time Incident Alerts, Reporting
Sep 10 2019 // Ironshore Environmental introduced IronResponse, a smartphone app that allows risk managers real-time access to claims professionals upon immediate notice of an environmental incident. IronResponse simplifies the reporting...
Ironshore Environmental Adds Contractors Pollution Liability Product to Online Portal
Jun 25 2019 // Ironshore Environmental has streamlined its Contractors Environmental Legal Liability (CELL) policy to be underwritten by broker partners through its online Quote & Bind Portal. The Ironshore CELL product responds to...
Jury Gets to Decide If One Insurer Acted in Bad Faith Against Another
Jun 5 2019 // A federal judge in Rhode Island has cleared the way for a trial to decide whether Columbia Casualty Insurance, in bad faith, put its own interest over its policyholder’s by gambling on a trial instead of settling a...
People
Apr 1 2019 // National Ironshore Specialty Casualty has appointed Casey Hartley as senior vice president and head of programs. She will oversee the development, marketing and distribution of programs lines, working with programs...
The Strategy Behind Hamilton Insurance’s Move to Buy Pembroke, Ironshore Europe
Mar 15 2019 // Strategy plus some remarkably good timing helped lead to Hamilton Insurance Group’s first acquisition deal under the leadership of CEO Pina Albo. On March 14, Hamilton announced it would acquire Liberty...
Hamilton to Buy Pembroke Managing Agency, Ironshore Europe DAC from Liberty Mutual
Mar 14 2019 // Hamilton Insurance Group Ltd., the Bermuda-based holding company of re/insurance operations in Bermuda and at Lloyd’s, announced it has signed a definitive agreement with Liberty Mutual Group to acquire the Pembroke...
Ironshore’s Shrubb Joins AXA XL’s Terrorism Insurance Team in U.S.
Feb 20 2019 // Morgan Shrubb has joined AXA XL Insurance as underwriting manager for War, Terrorism & Political Violence insurance. Shrubb joins AXA XL from Ironshore International where she served as a production specialist, charged...
Ironshore Environmental Adds Storage Tank Pollution Liability Coverage to Online Portal
Feb 7 2019 // Ironshore Environmental has made its stand-alone Storage Tank Policy accessible to brokers through an online quote & bind portal. The coverage addresses first- and third-party liability in response to releases from...
