Nexus Underwriting Management Ltd. (NUML), the London-based specialty managing general agent and intermediary, announced it will be renamed Kentro Capital Ltd. Nexus Underwriting (Nexus), the specialty MGA, and Xenia Broking (Xenia), the leading credit insurance and surety distribution specialist, will …
Arch Capital Group Ltd., alongside private equity partners Warburg Pincus and Kelso & Co., announced that Watford Holdings Ltd. and Watford Re Ltd. have been renamed Somers Group Holdings Ltd. and Somers Re Ltd., respectively. Headquartered in Bermuda, the name …
Florida-based global insurance firm Brown & Brown is rebranding the 130 retail insurance agency locations it has acquired over the years under the Brown & Brown name. The move by Brown & Brown will retire the original retail names of …
Chicago-based property/casualty underwriting agency, WNC Insurance Services, has rebranded as Tokio Marine Highland Insurance Services Inc. The agency was acquired in 2018 by Tokio Marine Kiln, a carrier in the Lloyd’s of London insurance market, rated A+ by Standard & …
Verlingue, the Adelaïde Group’s insurance brokerage subsidiary, is consolidating its brand in Switzerland and Portugal. After the successful launch of the brand in the United Kingdom in December 2019, the broker’s Swiss and Portuguese subsidiaries now have officially adopted the …
Unity Insurance Partners is now the name of the insurance division at Plano, Texas-based financial services firm, First United. First United’s insurance division originated from three different insurance companies that have been combined over several years. The company said the …
Brown Thayer Shedd Insurance Agency (BTS Insurance Agency), a Darien, Connecticut-based division of Cross Insurance, has rebranded as Cross Private Client Insurance (CPCI). Cross Insurance is a subsidiary of Cross Financial Corp and an independent insurance provider in New England …
Merlin Underwriting, a Toronto-based managing general agent (MGA), has rebranded as TruStar. TruStar is an independently owned MGA offering specialty insurance across the commercial, professional and financial line segments. Led by CEO Daniel Moses, TruStar wants to innovate the traditional …
Wholesale insurance brokerage AmWINS Group has rebranded its agency aggregator subsidiary Networked Insurance Agents to AmWINS Access – Admitted Placement Services. AmWINS Access is a nationwide binding platform for small property/casualty business comprising three segments: Excess & Surplus Small Commercial, …
Houston, Texas-based Houston International Insurance Group (HIIG) has changed its name to Skyward Specialty Insurance Group (Skyward Specialty). The company said the launch of the new Skyward Specialty brand is one of many strategic actions implemented by new CEO Andrew …
