July 2, 2014
Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford announced that five companies have filed to sell individual health insurance plans on Arkansas’ Federally-facilitated health insurance Marketplace for the 2015 plan year. The issuers filing for qualified health plan certification are: Arkansas Blue Cross …
June 16, 2014
Ryan Specialty Group, LLC (RSG) has formed RSGUM Healthcare, a new healthcare and life science underwriting facility, in partnership with the healthcare and life science underwriters at Lloyd’s of London. Lloyd’s support for this comes from Amlin, Chaucer, Catlin, Hiscox, …
April 21, 2014
Sullivan Brokers Wholesale Insurance Solutions named Jim Sce to the firm’s casualty practice group as vice president. Sce will work in the Los Angeles, Calif. office. Sce has expertise in construction classes, as well as experience in all casualty lines …
March 4, 2014
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has introduced a healthcare umbrella policy designed to address the exposures of large medical providers in the ever-changing healthcare environment. Reflecting the industry’s widespread consolidation, the policy provides a definition of insured, which encompasses new …
February 18, 2014
Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon plc, has formed an alliance with The Risk Authority, a subsidiary of the Stanford University Medical Network, to provide clinical risk management and enterprise risk management This new alliance will …
February 18, 2014
Patriot National Insurance Group Inc., a workers’ compensation insurer based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has a new partnership with Stonewood National Insurance Co. for a healthcare industry program in the Midwest. Under the partnership arrangement, Patriot will write workers’ compensation …
February 4, 2014
AXIS Insurance has formed a healthcare unit that will focus on providing professional liability insurance and associated standard casualty coverages for physician groups, hospitals, allied healthcare facilities and individual physicians. Kimber Lantry, who recently joined AXIS Insurance as an executive …
December 17, 2013
Arch Insurance Group, a member of Arch Capital Group Ltd., has launched a specialized healthcare professional liability product in the U.S called Net Protection PLUS / Regulatory Defense PLUS coverage, which will be available on select Arch Healthcare policies. According …
December 13, 2013
Ascent Underwriting, the Managing General Agent (MGA) specialising in emerging risks, has launched a medical billings errors & omissions insurance product specifically aimed at U.S. healthcare professionals. CyberPro Medical Billings offers financial protection against HIPAA billing and coding regulation violations …
November 26, 2013
General Star Management Co. has launched a new Healthcare Facilities Choice endorsement. The protection is available on miscellaneous healthcare facilities policies for risks that meet underwriting eligibility requirements. Six additional coverages are added to the “supplementary payments” section for qualified …