Latest Casualty Headlines
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Colony Specialty Appoints York as North Region Casualty Manager
Sep 13 2017 // Colony Specialty, a member of Argo Group International Holdings Ltd., has appointed Mike York as regional manager of the North Region within its U.S. Casualty Division. York will report to Tim Williams, vice president of...
New York’s BOLT Solutions Hires Temple as Managing Director
Sep 5 2017 // BOLT Solutions Inc., a New York-headquartered provider of an online distribution and customer support platform for the property and casualty insurance industry, has hired Tom Temple as managing director of business...
Brit Global Specialty USA Taps Aspen’s Liening as SVP, Excess Casualty
Aug 22 2017 // Brit Ltd. announced it has appointed Jonathan Liening as senior vice president, Excess Casualty, for Brit Global Specialty USA. Liening joins BGSU, effective Aug. 21, and is based in Chicago. He reports to Douglas Trainor....
Maxum’s Lucas Joins Everest Re to Head U.S. Casualty Facultative Programs
Aug 21 2017 // Darwin Lucas has joined Everest Reinsurance Co. as vice president and head of U.S. Casualty Programs for all general casualty and professional liability lines of coverage within the Facultative Reinsurance division. He...
Seeman Holtz Enters Texas Through Primera Casualty Acquisition
Aug 16 2017 // Boca Raton, Fla.-based Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc. has acquired Primera Capital, headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Primera’s Anthony Davis and team have been offering both auto insurance and tax services...
USI Southwest Names Glover Property/Casualty Practice Leader for North Texas
Aug 11 2017 // The Southwest region of USI Insurance Services (USI) appointed Joshua Glover as the property/casualty practice leader for North Texas. Glover will be based in USI’s Dallas office, reporting to Jack Wagner, USI...
Berkshire Hathaway Reports Losses on Re/Insurance Underwriting in Q2
Aug 7 2017 // Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway insurance and reinsurance businesses lost money or gained less in underwriting in the second quarter and first six months of 2017 compared to last year while his railroad,...
Exclusive Report: Top 100 Independent/Casualty Agencies
Aug 7 2017 // About This Report: Welcome to the 13th annual Insurance Journal Top 100 Independent P/C Agencies report. The Top 100 list is ranked by total property/casualty agency revenue for 2016 and comprises only those agencies whose...
UK Broker Beach Names RenRe’s Goldberg as Senior VP, Casualty Reinsurance
Jul 26 2017 // Beach & Associates, the London-based re/insurance broking and advisory firm, announced the appointment of Julian (Jules) Goldberg as senior vice president. He is based in the London office and reports to Adam Hedley,...
Markel Hires Ferguson to New York-Based U.S. Excess Casualty Team
Jul 21 2017 // Markel Global Insurance, a division of Markel Corporation, has hired John Ferguson as a director of its New York-based U.S. Excess Casualty team. In his new role, Ferguson serves as the retail construction practice lead...
Chubb Names New Leadership in Casualty Major Accounts for North America
Jul 14 2017 // Chubb today has made new leadership appointments within its Global Casualty and Excess Casualty lines of business for its North America Major Accounts division, which serves large U.S.- and Canadian-based companies...
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Jul 10 2017 // Kansas City-based insurance broker Lockton has named Jeff Henningsen as president of its Houston property/casualty insurance operation. Henningsen will take on an expanded leadership role in business development for the...
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Jul 10 2017 // Alan Jay Kaufman, chairman, president and CEO of Detroit/Farmington Hills, Michigan-based H.W. Kaufman Financial Group, has joined the School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science board of overseers at the...
DeSimone Joins AXIS to Lead Primary Casualty in Northeast, Midwest Regions
Jul 5 2017 // Specialty insurer AXIS Insurance has named James DeSimone to a new role as senior vice president, Primary Casualty. In this new role, DeSimone manages the underwriting team responsible for Primary Casualty in the Northeast...
Everest Re Taps Hiscox’s Kelly to Lead International Casualty Facultative Unit
Jun 26 2017 // Everest Re Group, Ltd. announced that Matthew Kelly has joined the group as vice president and head of the Reinsurance Division’s International Casualty Facultative unit and is based in Everest Re’s Miami...
Billings Named VP, Predictive Analytics at Midwest Employers Casualty
Jun 16 2017 // Midwest Employers Casualty has promoted Brian Billings to vice president of Predictive Analytics. As the Midwest Employers Casualty strategy evolved from data acquisition to leveraging data assets, Billings led the effort...
Loppnow Joins Lockton as Property/Casualty Unit Manager in Milwaukee
Jun 15 2017 // Kevin Loppnow has joined Lockton’s Milwaukee office as a property/casualty unit manager. Loppnow is an industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience as a property/casualty strategist. He previously worked...
Heritage Insurance Secures $1.7B in Florida Reinsurance Cover for 2017-2018
Jun 6 2017 // Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc., a property and casualty insurance holding company, announced that its insurance subsidiaries, Heritage Property & Casualty Insurance Co. and Zephyr Insurance Co., have completed the...
Chubb Names Liberty Mutual’s Watkins to Head Casualty Claims for North America
Jun 1 2017 // Chubb has named John Watkins as senior vice president, head of Casualty Claims for North America. Watkins will be responsible for managing approximately 325 casualty claims examiners and will oversee primary, excess, and...
A.M. Best Assigns Ratings to Wisconsin’s Integrity Select Insurance
May 26 2017 // A.M. Best has assigned a financial strength rating of A (Excellent) and a long-term issuer credit rating of “a+” to Integrity Select Insurance Co. (Integrity Select) in Appleton, Wis. The outlook assigned to...
