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Apr 8 2013 // Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon plc, has promoted Matthew Schneider to chief operating officer for the Greater New York region. Based in Aon’s New York office, Schneider will focus on...
Aon Risk Solutions Names Managing Director for Boston Office
Apr 3 2013 // Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon plc, announced the promotion of Richard DeVito as managing director and resident sales director in the Boston office. Richard DeVito In his new role, DeVito...
Torus Receives Approval for Lloyd’s Managing Agency
Apr 2 2013 // Global specialty insurer Torus announced it has received approval from the UK Financial Services Authority and Lloyd’s to launch its own Lloyd’s managing agency, Torus Underwriting Management Limited –...
Keyser Named Senior VP of HR at Fireman’s Fund in California
Mar 26 2013 // Novato, Calif.-based Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. named Amy Keyser senior vice president of human resources. Keyser is responsible for setting the company’s human resources strategy to create a high-performance...
Insurer Strategies for Managing Extreme Weather Risk
Mar 25 2013 // Common strategies for risk management include catastrophe modeling, reinsurance, higher deductibles or broader exclusions in risk-prone areas, particularly coastal zones, and a tight control of aggregate exposure,...
Wells Fargo Names Haskell Managing Director for Pacific Northwest
Mar 18 2013 // Wells Fargo Insurance named John Haskell managing director for the Pacific Northwest. Haskell will lead business development, client service and sales, and cross-sell strategy for the company’s insurance operations...
Insurance Weighs in on Working from Home
Mar 13 2013 // Working from home has become a hot topic following Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer’s announced plans in late February to bring telecommuters back into the office, and the issue is being taken up by some insurance firms,...
Hastings Joins Markel’s Professional, Financial Risks Unit; Replaces Retired Armes
Mar 12 2013 // James Hastings has been appointed managing director of Markel International’s professional and financial risks division in London. He replaces David Armes, who retired in December 2012 after more than 10 years with...
Willis Changes Management for Central, East Europe; Middle East, Africa
Mar 5 2013 // Willis Group Holdings announced that Toby Wemyss has been appointed as Regional CEO of the Group’s Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa operations, effective April first. He will be based in London and...
Haynes Becomes ANV Syndicate 1861 Managing Director
Mar 5 2013 // ANV Holdings BV, the Dutch headquartered specialty insurance business founded by R. Matthew Fairfield, and owner of ANV Syndicate 1861, announced the appointment of Peter Haynes as the Managing Director for the...
Workplace Bullying Emerging As Major Employment Liability Battleground
Mar 4 2013 // Margaret Fiester is no shrinking violet, but she says working for her former boss was a nightmare. “One day I didn’t do something right and she actually laid her hands on me and got up in my face and started...
No Yahoo, Insurer Likes Work-at-Home Employees
Mar 1 2013 // For more than six years, Tammy Saunders has woken at 5:30 a.m., showered, dressed and walked upstairs – to her office. A nurse practitioner, Saunders works as a case manager for Hartford, Connecticut-based health...
Tomko Joins Amerisure as Director of Compensation, Benefits
Feb 20 2013 // Farmington Hills, Mich.-based Amerisure Mutual Insurance Co. has added Jennifer Tomko as director of compensation and benefits. Tomko will report to Angela McBride, vice president of human resources at Amerisure. Tomoko...
Transactional Insurance on the Rise, Says Managing General Underwriter Ambridge
Feb 19 2013 // The global use of Transactional Insurance could rise by as much as 25 percent in 2013, according to Jeffrey Cowhey, President of Ambridge Partners LLC. The company’s announcement described the product as “a...
Willis Announces Exec Appointments, Office Expansions in Massachusetts
Feb 15 2013 // Willis North America, a unit of global insurance brokerage Willis Group Holdings, announced three executive appointments and office expansions to strengthen its Massachusetts operations and drive growth across the...
Insurance Exec. Bathurst to Head Mystic Capital’s London Office
Feb 12 2013 // U.S.-based Mystic Capital Advisors Group, LLC announced thay Andrew Bathurst and Highhurst Consulting Limited are to head its London investment banking initiatives. Bathurst previously served as CEO of Argenta Syndicate...
Aon Risk Solutions Names Resident Managing Director in New Jersey
Feb 8 2013 // Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon plc, appointed Peter Hutton as resident managing director in the New Jersey office. The office is located in Morristown, N.J. Peter Hutton In his new role,...
Government’s Case Against S&P: Ratings Stopped Making Sense
Feb 6 2013 // Barely two weeks after the big subprime lender New Century Financial Corp. went bankrupt, a top Standard & Poor’s executive assured Congress that her employer could be counted on to sound the alarm for the next...
Willis Names Daniels Managing Partner of Northern California
Feb 5 2013 // Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, named Andrew R. Daniels as managing partner of Northern California. The appointment is effective March 18. Daniels will be will be based in San Francisco and will lead...
Syndicates Increasingly Using Lloyd’s China Platform
Feb 4 2013 // “A growing number of syndicates are using Lloyd’s platform by placing their own underwriters in China,” says an article on the Lloyd’s website. “This, along with a license granted in 2012 to...
