Latest New Markets Headlines

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Markets/Coverages: Howden Launches Carbon Capture and Storage Insurance Facility

Jan 29 2024 // Howden, the London-based global insurance group, announced an insurance facility that covers the leakage of carbon dioxide (CO2) from commercial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities. The insurance facility,...

Markets/Coverages: MGA Sands Point Risk Launches With Transaction Liability Practice

Jan 24 2024 // Sands Point Risk, a new managing general agent to be led by the founder of transaction risk solutions at DUAL, has been launched to serve the transaction liability insurance (TLI) sector. Dennis Kearns, who founded the...

Markets/Coverages: CFC Launches Embedded Transaction Liability Insurance Product

Jan 23 2024 // Specialty insurance provider CFC has launched what it is calling the first ever transaction liability insurance product to be embedded into online M&A platforms in the USA. CFC is initially making its Seller Protect...

Markets/Coverages: Liberty Mutual Launches New Management Liability Package

Jan 22 2024 // Liberty Mutual recently announced ProShield, a packaged solution providing private companies and non-profits streamlined access to directors & officers, employment practices liability, fiduciary, and crime...

Envelop Risk Launches Cyber Reinsurance Lloyd’s Vehicle With Managing Agent Apollo

Jan 22 2024 // Envelop Risk, the data-driven cyber re/insurance and analytics specialist, announced the launch of Envelop SPA 1925, a dedicated cyber reinsurance special purpose arrangement (SPA) at Lloyd’s, in partnership with...

Alta Signa Launches European Marine Division

Jan 19 2024 // European boutique managing general agent (MGA), Alta Signa Europe B.V., announced the launch of a new European marine underwriting business. The new unit will focus on core marine lines of business, backed by Alta...

Tangram Enters Reinsurance Brokerage Market with SC-based Preferred Re

Jan 18 2024 // Tangram Insurance Services, an independent managing general agency based in California, has acquired Preferred Reinsurance Intermediaries in Columbia, South Carolina, marking Tangram’s entry into the reinsurance...

Markets/Coverages: Canopius Launches Investment Mgmt Cover for Asset Managers

Jan 18 2024 // Canopius Group, the global specialty re/insurer, has launched a new investment management product for asset managers. The product has been developed to respond to shifts in the risk landscape in the highly regulated asset...

Alliant in California Launches Student Health Specialty for Higher Ed

Jan 17 2024 // Alliant Insurance Services launched a student health specialty within Alliant Public Entity, offering student medical insurance for domestic and international students. The firm says its program helps higher educational...

Markets/Coverages: RSA Insurance and Brit Launch Project Cargo Consortium

Jan 9 2024 // RSA Insurance’s UK Specialty Lines business and Brit Ltd. have announced the launch of a new Project Cargo consortium, called “BUILD.” The consortium, one of the largest in the cargo market globally, is...

Markets/Coverages: Lloyd’s Announces 1st 144A Cat Bond on Its London Bridge Platform

Jan 8 2024 // Lloyd’s, the re/insurance marketplace, announced that the first 144A catastrophe bond has been issued on its risk transformation platform London Bridge 2 PCC Ltd. Beazley is the sponsor of the US$100 million...

Dyad Brand Launches to the P/C Insurance Market

Jan 2 2024 // Dyad, Inc., formerly XDimensional Technologies and I-Engineering, a provider of insurance software and services backed by Serent Capital, has launched today following XDimensional Technologies’ acquisition of...

People Moves: Triple-I Adds 4 Non-Resident Scholars; Tate Appointed Aspen’s Head of Product for Inland Marine; Schuermann Named President of Berkley Entertainment

Dec 22 2023 // The Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) announced the appointment of four new Non-Resident Scholars (NRS). Teresa Chan, Director – Insurance Management Program School of Professional Studies, Columbia...

Markel International Launches Specialty Division, Led by 2 Hires From Brit

Dec 14 2023 // Markel, the insurance operation within Markel Group Inc., has launched a Specialty practice within its International Wholesale division, which will be spearheaded by Tom Hillier as divisional managing director. The...

Tech Update: Chubb and NetSPI Launch Cyber Protection Partnership

Dec 13 2023 // Chubb announced a collaboration with NetSPI, a global provider proactive security. The pairing is designed to strengthen clients’ cyber-risk profiles with enhanced attack surface management and penetration testing...

Africa Specialty Risks Gets ‘In Principle’ Approval to Launch Syndicate in 2024

Dec 11 2023 // Africa Specialty Risks (ASR), the pan-African focused re/insurance group, has received “in-principle” approval to launch a Lloyd’s syndicate in 2024. The syndicate will be launched in partnership with...

Markets/Coverages: Howden Launches European Cyber & Tech E&O Facility

Dec 8 2023 // Howden, the global insurance group, today announces the launch of one of the first dedicated European cyber and technology errors & omissions line slips for primary business. The product is led by Canopius and IQUW...

Markets/Coverages: Driver Technologies Launches Video Telematics-Based Driver Score

Dec 7 2023 // Driver Technologies, Inc., an AI-based mobility tech company, has announced its Driver Technologies Rating Service Inc. (DTRS) is rolling out its newly launched driver score to commercial fleets and insurance partners. In...

Markets/Coverages: MGA Rokstone Launches Contingency Portfolio

Nov 30 2023 // Rokstone, the international speciality re/insurance MGA that is part of the Aventum Group, announced the launch of a new contingency portfolio with backing from “A”-rated carriers. Rokstone is launching the...

Markel’s State National to Enter UK Market, Offering Program Services for MGAs

Nov 29 2023 // Markel, the insurance operations of Markel Group Inc., announced that its wholly owned subsidiary State National Companies is entering the UK market, effective Jan. 1, 2024. State National, the largest program services...