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Crum & Forster Sells Credit Insurance Division to Amynta
Dec 27 2024 // Insurer Crum & Forster, a subsidiary of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, has sold its C&F Credit Division to Amynta Group. The C&F Credit Division underwrites and manages credit insurance products, including...
Crum & Forster Policy Covered Accidents, Not Intentional Pollution, Appeals Court Says
May 25 2023 // Greasy, toxin-laden wastewater discharges by a Mississippi animal feed maker were not accidents and thus are not covered by a Crum & Foster pollution policy, a federal appeals court decided this week in a case that...
People Moves: Hilb Names CEO at Choice Financial; Crum & Forster Appoints Kovalsky to Credit Team; Cross Insurance Welcomes Randlett as Counsel
Jul 29 2022 // Hilb Group Founder Takes Helm at Choice Financial Virginia insurance agency Choice Financial Group has appointed insurance veteran Robert J. Hilb as chief executive officer following the retirement of J. Richard Braun,...
JAB to Acquire Fairfax’s Pet Insurance Stake in Crum & Forster, PetHealth
Jun 20 2022 // JAB Holding Company and Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited said today that JAB’s pet insurance business agreed to acquire all of Fairfax’s interests in the Crum & Forster Pet Insurance Group and PetHealth...
People Moves: Insurtech Joyn Adds Schoberth; Chubb’s Lubin Joins Crum & Forster; TransRe Promotes O’Gwen; AXA XL’s Klimczak Moves to U.S.
Aug 25 2021 // Insurtech Joyn Adds Schoberth as Chief Distribution Officer Insurance technology company Joyn Insurance announced the addition of Uwe Schoberth as chief distribution officer. The role will focus on developing broker...
Crum & Forster Adds Quaranta, Borovski to East, Southeast eRisk Teams
Feb 19 2021 // Crum & Forster has expanded its eRisk team with the addition of Cassie Quaranta as an executive underwriter in the Northeast Region and Vlad Borovskyi as an underwriter in the Southeast Region. Quaranta and Borovskyi...
Crum & Forster Acquires Aspen’s Food and Beverage Product Recall Business
Dec 2 2020 // Specialty insurer Crum & Forster (C&F) has acquired the renewal rights of Aspen’s U.S. food and beverage product recall insurance portfolio written primarily through the excess and surplus lines market. The...
InsuraGuest to Offer Crum & Forster BOP Coverage to 130+ Classes Via Web Portal
Oct 13 2020 // InsuraGuest Technologies, through its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary Insure The People, has launched a new business owner policy (BOP) insurtech portal, www.InsureThePeople.com that is available to more than 130 class...
USI, Crum & Forster Offer Cyber Coverage to Bar Association Law Firms
Sep 21 2020 // USI Affinity and the American Bar Association (ABA) have partnered with Crum & Forster to offer a cyber liability insurance program for law firms nationwide. As the broker for the ABA Insurance Program, USI Affinity...
Nexus Specialty to Offer Admitted Trade Credit Products through Crum & Forster
Jan 7 2020 // Nexus Specialty Inc., part of MGA Nexus Group, has formed a new program agreement with Crum & Forster that allows Nexus to underwrite their trade credit products on a fully admitted basis in the U.S. Nexus Specialty...
Crum & Forster Pet Insurance Group Expands Horse Program Into 6 States
Sep 26 2019 // Crum & Forster Pet Insurance Group has expanded its stand-alone, veterinary care insurance for companion horses to include six new states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Texas. Policies are...
Crum & Forster A&H Division Forms Captive Facility in Cayman Islands
Nov 29 2018 // The Accident & Health Division of Crum & Forster has launched Crum & Forster SPC, a Captive Facility in the Cayman Islands. The A&H Segregated Portfolio Company (SPC) Captive is rated A by A.M. Best. The...
Recovery Underway in New York Region Hit by Flash Flooding
Aug 17 2018 // Clean-up and recovery efforts continued Wednesday in several upstate New York counties where flash flooding damaged homes, vehicles and infrastructure from the Finger Lakes region to the Binghamton area. Tuesday’s...
Flash Flooding Closes Roads, Damages Homes in Central New York
Aug 16 2018 // Home and business owners in New York’s Finger Lakes region were dealing with flooded basements after heavy rains caused flash flooding that inundated roads in several towns Tuesday. A state of emergency was declared...
Florida Supreme Court Ruling to Have Big Impact on Duty to Defend Construction Cases
Jan 4 2018 // A recent case out of the Florida Supreme Court will likely have a big impact on the duty of insurers to defend Florida construction cases. The case, Altman Contractors, Inc. v. Crum & Forster Specialty Insurance...
Crum & Forster Pet Insurance Group Launches Companion Horse Insurance
Jun 13 2017 // Crum & Forster Pet Insurance Group has launched a new product for the equine industry that provides veterinary care insurance for companion horses – typically only available for race or performance horses. Policies...
Crum & Forster Acquires Redwoods Group in North Carolina
Apr 7 2015 // The Redwoods Group, a provider of insurance to YMCAs, Jewish community centers and residential and day camps, has agreed to a merger with specialty insurer Crum & Forster, part of Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. Terms...
Slimowicz Joins Crum & Forster as Chief Claims Officer
Jun 27 2014 // Anthony R. Slimowicz is joining Crum & Forster as senior vice president and chief claims officer. He will report to Doug Libby, chairman and CEO of C&F, and will be based at the company’s headquarters in...
Crum & Forster Adds 3 to CoverXSpecialty Team
May 9 2014 // Crum & Forster has made three appointments to its leadership team at CoverXSpecialty, which specializes in coverage for business with unique risks. Sam Anderson, a 32-year veteran of the insurance industry, has been...
Hudson, C&F Shift D&O and E&O Business
Sep 17 2013 // Hudson Insurance Group and Crum & Forster, both owned by Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., announced a strategic realignment of their directors and officers (D&O) and management liability business. C&F will...
