Latest Underwriting Headlines
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Ascot Underwriting Limited Appoints American Claims Management to Manage Commercial Property Program
Feb 20 2014 // San Diego, Calif. (02/20/2014) – American Claims Management Inc. (ACM), a national third party administrator (TPA), is pleased to announce that effective January 1, 2014, it began claims handling for the Commercial...
CNA Appoints Leisz SVP, Chief Underwriting Officer for Specialty Unit
Feb 19 2014 // CNA Financial Corp., based in Chicago, appointed Christopher Leisz as senior vice president and chief underwriting officer for CNA Specialty. Leisz will take on the oversight and governance for specialty insurance products...
CNA Appoints Leisz SVP, Chief Underwriting Officer for Specialty Unit
Feb 18 2014 // CNA Financial Corp., based in Chicago, appointed Christopher Leisz as senior vice president and chief underwriting officer for CNA Specialty. Leisz will take on the oversight and governance for specialty insurance products...
Patriot National, Stonewood Partner on Healthcare Program
Feb 13 2014 // Patriot National Insurance Group Inc., a workers’ compensation insurer based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has a new partnership with Stonewood National Insurance Co. for a healthcare industry program in the...
Gilmore Named VP, Underwriting at Iowa Mutual
Feb 12 2014 // Iowa Mutual Insurance Co. has selected Amy Gilmore as vice president, underwriting. Gilmore most recently served as vice president and product manager of underwriting at another casualty company. She previously held...
Catlin Group Increases Net Income to $392 Million in 2013
Feb 10 2014 // The Bermuda-based, London headquartered, Catlin Group announced very good financial results for the year ended December 31, 2013, with a 27 percent increase in profit before tax to $432 million, compared to $339 million in...
How to Attract the Right Underwriter for Transportation Clients
Feb 10 2014 // “There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person” – G.K. Chesterton The insurance market for transportation risks is increasingly...
Buckley, Kryshak Promoted at Wisconsin-Based Church Mutual Insurance
Feb 6 2014 // Merrill, Wis.-based Church Mutual Insurance Co., an insurer of religious organizations, announced that Bob Buckley is the new vice president — underwriting and policyholder services and Cheryl Kryshak is the new vice...
ANV Makes Structural Changes, Additions to Lloyd’s Syndicate 1861 Team
Feb 5 2014 // ANV Holdings BV, the Dutch headquartered specialty insurance business, announced a wide restructuring of its underwriting leadership within ANV Syndicate 1861. The bulletin described the initiative “as a testament to...
OnPoint Underwriting Appoints Nancy Arky SVP Underwriting & Announces New Programs for Sovereign Nations
Feb 4 2014 // Denver, Colo. (Feb. 4, 2014) – OnPoint Underwriting, one of the nation’s leading program managers for Sovereign Nations, announced Nancy Arky has been promoted to senior vice president underwriting. Arky joined...
NSM Insurance Group Acquires Professional Underwriters Agency
Feb 3 2014 // NSM Insurance Group announced it has acquired Professional Underwriters Agency Inc. (PUA), a managing general agent specializing in professional liability and located in Oak Brook, Ill. PUA was founded more than 30 years...
Blackmoor Acquires Penn. Branch of Connecticut Underwriters
Feb 3 2014 // Blackmoor General Agency of Horsham, Penn., has acquired the Pennsylvania branch of Connecticut Underwriters, an independent excess and surplus lines broker in Middletown, Conn., effective Feb. 1, 2014. The business and...
Best Affirms Allstate Group and Subs ‘A+’ Ratings; Outlook Stable
Feb 3 2014 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A+’ (Superior) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “aa-” of the members of Allstate Insurance Group (Allstate). Best also affirmed...
Guevara Joins MarketScout as Fine Arts Lead Underwriter
Jan 30 2014 // MarketScout said that Alice Guevara has joined MarketScout to lead the firm’s new national fine arts and collectibles underwriting facility in Itasca, Illinois. Guevara brings 20 years of experience in underwriting...
W.R. Berkley Q4 Profit Declines 21% to $130M; Underwriting Improves
Jan 29 2014 // W. R. Berkley Corp. reported $130.38 million in net income for the 2013 fourth quarter, a 21 percent decline compared to $165.49 million reported during the prior-year fourth quarter. The net income for the full year 2013...
Beazley, Hiscox Form D&O Consortium with Capacity up to $50 Million
Jan 28 2014 // Lloyd’s of London insurers Beazley and Hiscox have partnered to offer brokers and clients a D&O consortium through which the syndicates will provide materially higher limits and offer additional options to...
Cargo Specialist Franks Joins Marketform Underwriting Team
Jan 28 2014 // London-based Lloyd’s specialist underwriter Marketform announced that it has “secured the consultancy services of experienced marine practitioner Howard Franks who will work with cargo underwriter Nicholas...
Altitude Risk Partners Launches 1st Underwriting Cell on Castel’s MGA Platform
Jan 23 2014 // Castel Underwriting Agencies Limited, a member of the Barbican Insurance Group, announced that Altitude Risk Partners has become the first underwriting cell to utilize its “club-style” MGA platform to create a...
Travelers More Than Triples Profit in Q4 on Lower Disaster Losses, Higher Prices
Jan 21 2014 // Travelers Cos., the property/casualty insurer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, said fourth-quarter profit more than tripled as claims costs from natural disasters fell a year after Superstorm Sandy. Net income rose to...
Florida Bill Would Restrict Insurers in Underwriting Gun Owners
Jan 17 2014 // Florida lawmakers say they want to protect policyholders’ second amendment rights to bear firearms by preventing insurers from issuing, renewing or canceling a policy based on whether the policyholder possesses a...
