Latest Underwriting Headlines
All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dabney Named VP, Corporate Underwriting, at Texas Mutual Insurance Co.
Aug 18 2020 // Richard Dabney has been appointed vice president of corporate underwriting at the Austin-based workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Company. In this newly created VP position within the underwriting...
IGI Appoints Neon’s James as Class Underwriter for Cargo in London
Aug 18 2020 // Specialist insurer International General Insurance Holdings announced the appointment of Brian James as class underwriter for Cargo. James will be based in IGI’s London office and will be responsible for developing a...
Not Every Insurtech Is a Startup: How Swiss Re Delivers Tech Solutions
Aug 14 2020 // It’s not just insurtech startups that have an edge on innovation. Some established reinsurers have developed their own analytics and technology divisions that offer a variety of insurtech-type solutions for...
Litchfield Special Risks Adds Harris as Underwriter in El Paso
Aug 14 2020 // El Paso, Texas-based surplus lines managing general agent, Litchfield Special Risks Inc., has added Melissa Harris as a property/casualty underwriter. Harris is experienced in commercial underwriting and joins LSRI after...
Texas Mutual Names Strong VP, Underwriting Operations
Aug 13 2020 // Paschal Strong has been appointed vice president of underwriting operations at workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co. In this newly created position within the underwriting division, Strong will be...
One80 Intermediaries Acquires Canadian MGA, Strategic Underwriting Managers
Aug 12 2020 // One80 Intermediaries, a Boston-headquartered wholesale broker, program manager, and insurance aggregator, announced it has acquired Strategic Underwriting Managers Inc. (SUM), a Canada-based managing general agent. Terms...
Jackson Sumner & Associates Acquires Virginia’s Landers Underwriting
Aug 12 2020 // Jackson Sumner & Associates (JSA) has acquired Landers Underwriting of Charlottesville, Va., in a deal inked earlier this month. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. JSA is an excess and surplus broker that...
Trident Marine Managers, Nationwide E&S Form Underwriting Agreement
Aug 11 2020 // Trident Marine Managers, Inc. (Trident) has reached a delegated authority underwriting agreement with Nationwide E&S to provide recreational marine and marine equipment insurance, along with workers’ compensation...
Chubb Names Lupica President, North America; Krump Vice Chair, Global Underwriting, Claims
Aug 10 2020 // Global insurer Chubb announced appointments to two new executive positions. Chubb has named John Lupica as president of North America Insurance, the company’s largest division. Lupica is currently vice chairman,...
Berkshire Insurance Units Hold Their Own While Pandemic Slams Other Buffett Firms
Aug 10 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway Inc. had a tough second quarter with the pandemic taking a toll on most of its operating businesses including Precision Castparts aircraft parts, the BNSF railroad, Occidental Petroleum Corp., Kraft...
Gridiron Insurance Underwriters of Florida Hires Murphy to Lead Property Division
Aug 10 2020 // Gridiron Insurance Underwriters, Inc., a program manager specializing in program business on a regional and national basis through select retail and wholesale producers, has hired Ben Murphy as its new head of...
Beazley Builds in Midwest with 4 Cyber and Executive Risk Underwriters
Aug 7 2020 // Specialist insurer Beazley has appointed four new underwriters within its Chicago, Ill.-based cyber and executive risk division. Jon Perry and Megan Feyereisen join as executive risk underwriters, while Brett Kreiter and...
Worldwide Facilities Acquires Clearwater Underwriters of Florida
Aug 5 2020 // Worldwide Facilities, LLC, a national wholesale insurance broker, managing general agent and program underwriter, has acquired Clearwater Underwriters, Inc., a surplus lines MGA based in Clearwater, Fla. Clearwater...
One80 Intermediaries Acquires National Underwriting Services in Texas
Aug 4 2020 // One80 Intermediaries has acquired National Underwriting Services Inc. in San Antonio, Texas. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. National Underwriting Services is a specialty underwriter of medical stop loss coverage for...
Breckenridge Welcomes Sheree Davis as Senior Vice President, Program Director
Jul 30 2020 // Atlanta, GA, July 30, 2020 — Breckenridge Insurance Group welcomes Sheree Davis to the company as a senior vice president, program director. Davis has more than 30 years of insurance industry experience with significant...
PartnerRe Names Bonneau as President and CEO as Clarke Exits
Jul 28 2020 // Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd. announced it has appointed industry veteran Jacques Bonneau as its president and chief executive officer effective immediately. Bonneau, who will be based in the company’s headquarter in...
AXA XL Announces Leadership Team for UK & Lloyd’s Region
Jul 27 2020 // AXA XL announced the new leadership team for its UK & Lloyd’s region. Effective immediately, the appointments are part of the proposed changes to the operating model of AXA XL’s Insurance business following...
London’s International Underwriting Association Publishes New Motor Terrorism Clause
Jul 24 2020 // A new model clause for clarifying coverage of motor terrorism risks has been published by the International Underwriting Association. It has been developed after a growing spate of terrorist attacks using vehicles led to...
Pfeifer Promoted to Senior VP, Underwriting at Ohio’s Central Insurance
Jul 22 2020 // The Central Insurance Companies, based in Van Wert, Ohio, has promoted Jocelyn Pfeifer to senior vice president of Underwriting. Pfeifer will lead the entirety of the company’s underwriting organization including...
SAGE Program Underwriters Launches Program for Ground Delivery Contractors
Jul 21 2020 // SAGE Program Underwriters, a national specialty program administrator, has launched a new workers’ compensation program for the ground delivery industry. SAGE has worked with the ground delivery and transportation...
