Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced it has named Javier Villalba to its expanding leadership team in Spain as head of Claims. Villalba comes to BHSI with nearly 20 years of claims experience. He was most recently director for Expert …
Crawford & Company has promoted Jack Schafer to senior vice president, chief client officer of U.S. Loss Adjusting. Schafer will report to Rohit Verma, Crawford’s global chief operating officer and is based in Connecticut. In his new role as chief …
RLI has formed a partnership with Gridiron Insurance Underwriters to offer RLI’s excess liability binding authority insurance through Easy Excess, Gridiron’s dedicated online wholesale excess liability portal. The Easy Excess platform allows appointed producers to quote, bind and issue excess …
IAT Insurance Group, a provider of specialty property and casualty products, has added Steve Assennata to the company to serve as chief underwriting officer (CUO) of its Programs unit. The company is based in Raleigh, N.C. Assennata comes to IAT …
Quantemplate, the provider of self-service, cloud-based automated data services for the re/insurance industry, raised more than $12 million in its latest funding round. Quantemplate said it plans to use the funding for three main areas, sales and marketing, and platform …
Ascot announced the appointment of Patrick Kenahan as head of Excess Casualty in Bermuda. In addition, Jason Pugi, Kimberley Pursell and Michael Watkins were named senior vice presidents. The team will write excess casualty insurance for large corporations across a …
Benefitfocus, a cloud-based benefits platform, has added Toggle, a Farmers company, is to its BenefitsPlace offering. BenefitsPlace allows employers, brokers and medical insurance carriers to offer specialty benefits products from more than 45 brands. The product catalog also gives consumer …
Authorities say a fire in a Newport home that killed a retired teacher and coach has been ruled an accident that started in the kitchen. The Newport Daily News reported Sunday that Deputy State Fire Marshal Kevin Morris says the …
Specialist insurer Beazley has appointed Matthew Westhoff as head of U.S. large commercial property based in New York. Reporting to Beazley’s global head of commercial property, Simon Jackson, Westhoff will manage the U.S.-based team, working alongside the property team in …
The U.S. Department of Labor has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to hold The Roof Kings LLC and its owner, Craig Galligan, in civil contempt for not fulfilling the terms of an order issued by …
