Latest Underwriting Headlines
All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Berkshire Hathaway Purchasing Applied Underwriters
Feb 8 2006 // Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has agreed to acquire Applied Underwriters and all of its subsidiaries, including its North American Casualty insurance companies. Applied Underwriters is a privately held company that is an...
NAS Adds HMOs to Coverage, Promotes Two Underwriters
Feb 8 2006 // Encino, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services has added health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to the eligible classes of its managed care E&O/D&O/EPLI insurance coverage. Other eligible classes include medical...
Kingsway Grows Net Income by 24% for 2005; Dividend Increases 25%
Feb 8 2006 // Canada-based Kingsway Financial Services Inc. reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, 2005 (Cdn dollars except where indicated). Net income for the quarter increased 16% to $42.1 million...
PCI Hosting Seminar for Marketers, Underwriters March 26-28
Feb 7 2006 // Insurance marketers and underwriters from across the country will explore a wide range of hot topics and cutting-edge marketplace developments such as technology and insurance buying trends, predictive modeling and...
Question is not whether to buy umbrella… but how much
Feb 6 2006 // It seems that every risk today has a big exposure, regardless of size or industry type. Some popular litigation targets include product liability, personal injury claims, false advertising and, most frequently, commercial...
Question is not whether to buy umbrella… but how much
Feb 6 2006 // It seems that every risk today has a big exposure, regardless of size or industry type. Some popular litigation targets include product liability, personal injury claims, false advertising and, most frequently, commercial...
SPECIAL REPORT: Commercial Umbrella
Feb 5 2006 // It seems that every risk today has a big exposure, regardless of size or industry type. Some popular litigation targets include product liability, personal injury claims, false advertising and, most frequently, commercial...
Lloyd’s Faraday Announces Underwriting Appointments
Feb 2 2006 // Faraday Group, the broker-focused Lloyd’s managing agent and London-based reinsurance group, announced the approval of the appointments of Mark Rayner and Paul Ceurvorst as joint Chief Underwriting Officer and Active...
PWIB Texas Adds Taylor as Associate Underwriter/Broker
Feb 1 2006 // Dallas, Texas-based PWIB Texas, a division of Insurance Specialty Group (ISG), announced the addition of Josh Taylor as an associate underwriter/broker. Taylor formerly served as an assistant underwriter with a managing...
Arrowhead Professional Liability Div. Names Senior Program Underwriter
Feb 1 2006 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency’s Inc. Professional Liability Division, Torrance, Calif., has appointed Anita Bryant senior program underwriter for the employment professional liability insurance, private company...
Live Today on IJ: Watch Professional Liability Underwriters Ring Closing NASDAQ Bell at 3:50 PM EST
Jan 31 2006 // The president of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society will ring the closing bell at The NASDAQ Stock Market in Times Square today to kick-off the group’s annual Directors & Officers insurance...
Analysts predict faster P/C premium growth, underwriting profit
Jan 23 2006 // Each year the Insurance Information Institute invites a panel of Wall Street stock analysts and industry professionals to review the prospects for the industry in the year ahead. This year’s survey results indicate...
Emerging environmental risks pose problems for underwriters
Jan 23 2006 // Anticipating and assessing risk, along with defining and assigning value to units of exposure, are basic components of an insurance underwriter’s job. Challenging as such tasks are when examining well-known...
2006 looking good already for P/C industry
Jan 23 2006 // ‘The expectation for a third consecutive underwriting profit in 2006 is, of course, predicated on the belief that catastrophe activity will return to more “normal” levels. Record catastrophe losses will...
New entrants join race for surplus lines share
Jan 23 2006 // XL, Rockhill and GMAC RE jockey for market share with established surplus lines writers Katrina-sized catastrophes put added pressure on admitted carriers, which increases the demand for greater capacity in excess and...
2006 already looking good for the property/casualty industry
Jan 23 2006 // Record catastrophe losses will weigh heavily on 2005’s underwriting results, according to the Insurance Information Institute’s recent “Earlybird Forecast Survey,” but the survey of Wall Street...
News Currents
Jan 22 2006 // Zurich and Hellman & Friedman call off Universal Underwriters sale after regulatory issues surface Zurich Financial Services Group (Zurich) and affiliates of Hellman & Friedman LLC (H&F), a leading private...
Earlybird Forecast
Jan 22 2006 // Record catastrophe losses will weigh heavily on 2005’s underwriting results, according to the Insurance Information Institute’s Earlybird Forecast Survey, but the survey of Wall Street stock analysts and...
Earlybird Forecast
Jan 22 2006 // 2006 looking good already for P/C industry Record catastrophe losses will weigh heavily on 2005’s underwriting results, according to the Insurance Information Institute’s recent Earlybird Forecast Survey, but...
Emerging environmental risks pose problems for underwriters
Jan 22 2006 // Anticipating and assessing risk, along with defining and assigning value to units of exposure, are basic components of an insurance underwriter’s job. Challenging as such tasks are when examining well-known...
