Latest Underwriting Headlines
All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Lloyd’s Announces New Marine Underwriting Charter Policy
Nov 9 2006 // A bulletin on the Lloyd’s Website (www.lloyds.com) announced that its underwriters are “to provide the capacity for what is believed to be a world first for shipowners. The policy, Seacure60 is a cancellation...
Zurich Launches Global Underwriting for Multinational Products
Nov 7 2006 // Zurich Financial Services Group has announced the launch of an innovative approach to multinational insurance coverage, which it described as incorporating “all foreign premium tax and licensing obligations into a...
Submitting, underwriting and placing lawyers professional liability
Nov 6 2006 // Lawyers professional liability, sometimes called legal malpractice, belongs with the selected “traditional” professional liability lines, such as physicians, accountants and architects/ engineers. Lawyers, in...
Submitting, underwriting and placing lawyers professional liability
Nov 6 2006 // Lawyers professional liability, sometimes called legal malpractice, belongs with the selected “traditional” professional liability lines, such as physicians, accountants and architects/engineers. While...
Submitting, underwriting and placing lawyers professional liability
Nov 6 2006 // Lawyers professional liability, sometimes called legal malpractice, belongs with the selected “traditional” professional liability lines, such as physicians, accountants and architects/ engineers. Lawyers, in...
Innovations in information technology spur need for up-to-date underwriters
Nov 6 2006 // With rapid innovations in the field of information technology, types of underwriting that didn’t exist a few decades ago have become prominent today. For example, companies engaging in information technology...
Insurance credit scoring plagued with fundamental problems
Nov 6 2006 // A fundamental problem exists with insurance scoring. The problem is that insurance scores and credit scores reflect correlation, but correlation does not necessarily indicate dependency upon which effective decisions can...
Submitting, underwriting and placing lawyers professional liability
Nov 5 2006 // Lawyers’ professional liability is a bit different from other professional liability risks, and there appears to be interest in providing coverage for the risk. Back in the 1970s, lawyers professional liability used...
Submitting, underwriting and placing lawyers professional liability
Nov 5 2006 // Lawyers professional liability, sometimes called legal malpractice, belongs with the selected “traditional” professional liability lines, such as physicians, accountants and architects/engineers. While...
People
Nov 5 2006 // Chris Hughes, with Swingle, Collins & Associates, is the new president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Dallas. Swingle Collins reported that Hughes joins officer ranks with firm president, Frank Swingle, whose...
Submitting, underwriting and placing lawyers professional liability
Nov 5 2006 // Lawyers professional liability, sometimes called legal malpractice, belongs with the selected “traditional” professional liability lines, such as physicians, accountants and architects/ engineers. Lawyers, in...
Submitting, underwriting and placing lawyers professional liability
Nov 5 2006 // Lawyers professional liability, sometimes called legal malpractice, belongs with the selected “traditional” professional liability lines, such as physicians, accountants and architects/ engineers. Lawyers, in...
Innovations in information technology spur need for up-to-date underwriters
Nov 5 2006 // With rapid innovations in the field of information technology, types of underwriting that didn’t exist a few decades ago have become prominent today. For example, companies engaging in information technology...
Insurance credit scoring plagued with fundamental problems
Nov 5 2006 // A fundamental problem exists with insurance scoring. The problem is that insurance scores and credit scores reflect correlation, but correlation does not necessarily indicate dependency upon which effective decisions can...
Regulators Consider New Underwriting Approach at Chicago Seminar
Nov 3 2006 // New underwriting data that insurers are expected to start using in 2007, along with new computer modeling techniques, will be presented at a national workshop on urban and multicultural markets Nov. 9 in Chicago. Texas...
Aspen Names Cusack Bermuda Insurance Chairman, CEO; Appoints 3 New Directors
Nov 3 2006 // Bermuda-based Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited has appointed Julian Cusack, currently its CFO, to the expanded role of Chairman and CEO of Aspen Insurance Limited (AIL), Bermuda. He will step down as CFO once a successor...
Gladwell Joins XL Insurance as Gulf Regional Underwriting Manager
Oct 31 2006 // David Duclos, chief operating officer for XL Capital Ltd’s global insurance operations announced the appointment of Diana Gladwell as Gulf Regional underwriting manager for its Marine & Offshore Energy (MOE)...
Catlin/Wellington Finalize Share Offer; Merger to Create Lloyd’s Largest Underwriter
Oct 30 2006 // The Boards of Directors of Catlin Group Limited and Wellington Underwriting Plc have agreed on the terms of a recommended Offer to be made by Catlin for the whole of the issued and to be issued share capital of Wellington....
Quanta Moves Ahead on Deal with Chaucer to Form Pembroke
Oct 26 2006 // Quanta Capital Holdings Ltd. announced that its Lloyd’s business has taken a step forward in the formation of the Pembroke Managing Agency Limited with the signing of “definitive documents with Chaucer Holdings...
Capstone Underwriters Adds Kenebrew as Underwriter/Broker
Oct 24 2006 // Dallas, Texas-based Capstone Underwriters Inc. announced that Laura Kenebrew has joined the firm as an underwriter and broker. Kenebrew adds her 16 years of underwriting and management experience in the Texas...
