Hartford Names Burns as Head of Marketing and Comms, Succeeding Bromage The Hartford has appointed Claire Burns chief marketing and communications officer, effective Sept. 1. Burns will report directly to Chairman and CEO Christopher Swift. She succeeds Kathleen Bromage, who …
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has promoted William Porter as head International Programs Americas, and Reto Collenberg as head International Programs APAC and EMEA, both effective Aug.1. Together they will oversee Swiss Re Corporate Solutions’ International Programs business and market strategy …
National wholesale broker CRC Group announced that Alex Bonds has joined the company as chief officer for Property Programs to lead CRC’s exclusive Insurisk brand’s property facility development. Bonds joins the CRC Group team from Aspen Insurance where he was …
Financial holding company Ambac Financial Group has launched Everspan Group, capitalized with more than $100 million, to focus on writing specialty program insurance business. Everspan Group’s insurance companies include two Arizona-domiciled entities: Everspan Indemnity Insurance Co., an excess and surplus …
K2 International (K2), the specialty insurance and reinsurance underwriting platform, announced it has secured additional capacity support from Chaucer, the specialty re/insurance group. The agreement, which is effective from Nov. 1, 2020, will allow K2 Financial to provide significant capacity …
Global reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter & Co. has started a new dedicated unit to provide services to insurance carriers and managing general agencies (MGAs) operating in the program business market. The new unit, GC Access, offers a range of services …
K2 Insurance Services, the underwriting and distribution specialist in the U.S. program insurance market, announced the launch of K2 International, a specialty insurance and reinsurance underwriting platform, based in London. K2 International has been created through the acquisition of Pioneer …
One80 Intermediaries (One80), a national wholesale insurance broker and program manager headquartered in Boston, has acquired Beachwood, Ohio-based International Excess Program Managers (IEPM), a wholesale insurance brokerage and program manager operating in all 50 states. Terms of the deal were …
Fueled by efficiencies introduced by insurtechs and underwriters’ interest in niche classes, the insurance program business has experienced impressive growth the last few years. But heavy interest is also forcing program administrators to think outside the box in order to …
Insurance program manager Victor O. Schinnerer and Co. has rebranded as Victor US. The announcement completes the larger global unification and rebranding of The Schinnerer Group to Victor Insurance Holdings that was begun in 2018. Last month, as part of …
