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Sompo Acquiring W. Brown & Associates in California

Dec 22 2020 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd. has acquired W. Brown & Associates Insurance Services in Irvine, Calif. Brown has been a managing general underwriter for Sompo International since 2016. The W. Brown operations will...

Sompo International Names New York’s Gundersen Head of Asian Risk Solutions

Oct 29 2020 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, has appointed Sara Gundersen as executive vice president and Asian Risk Solutions segment leader...

Sompo International Adds D&O Coverage for Public Companies

Oct 20 2020 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd. has launched a new directors and officers liability insurance policy form for publicly-traded companies in the U.S. Sompo’s public D&O product is the latest addition to the...

New York, California Could be Fastest Growing States for Renewables

Sep 24 2020 // U.S. environmental policies will drive long-term demand for renewable energy, Moody’s Investors Service said in a new report. The report depicts a “a credit positive for renewable energy developers” in...

Sompo’s Davis Named President of Canopius USA as It Eyes Expansion

Sep 17 2020 // Specialty insurer Canopius Group has appointed Lisa Davis to the new position of president and chief underwriting officer of Canopius USA, effective October 1. Davis joins Canopius from Sompo America Insurance Services,...

Sompo International’s AgriSompo, Invivo Group to Offer Crop Insurance in France

Sep 8 2020 // The global agriculture platform of Sompo International Holdings, AgriSompo, has entered into a strategic broking relationship with InVivo Group, a national union of 201 member cooperatives representing more than half of...

Sompo Global Risk, Marsh & McLennan Launch Commercial Real Estate Market Product

Aug 18 2020 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA) and Sompo Global Risk Solutions (GRS) have launched a new customizable insurance product designed to help commercial real estate owners control costs, streamline policy administration...

Sompo Global Risk Solutions Launches Team in London to Serve UK, Europe Markets

Jul 2 2020 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, announced that Sompo Global Risk Solutions (GRS) has formed a new team, Sompo GRS Europe, based in...

Sompo Forms Technology Industry Unit, Taps Carroll to Lead

Jun 12 2020 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty property/casualty insurer, has formed a new team offering products to the technology industry through its network of retail brokers. This new unit will build on...

Huhn-Kenzik to Lead New Sompo Environmental Unit for U.S.

Jun 8 2020 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty property,/casualty insurer, has launched a U.S. Insurance Environmental unit that augments its existing capabilities currently available through its Sompo Global...

People & Places

Jun 1 2020 // National The Hanover Insurance Group has appointed James A. Kelley as president of Hanover Specialty Industrial Property. Kelley is responsible for the company’s portfolio of insurance for complex, high hazard...

Sompo Int’l Forms Agricultural Insurance Partnership with Portuguese MGA ATLAS

Apr 22 2020 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, announced that its global agriculture platform, AgriSompo, has entered into a partnership with...

Sompo Int’l to Exit Lloyd’s, Writing New Business from London Company Market Platform

Apr 15 2020 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, announced that as part of the ongoing transformation of Sompo International, the insurer will be...

Sompo GRS Adds Carroll as Deputy Head of Life Sciences Practice in North Carolina

Mar 31 2020 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, has appointed Michael P. Carroll as senior vice president and deputy head of Life Sciences for Sompo...

Donelan Named CEO of Sompo International’s Reinsurance Unit, Succeeding Young

Mar 23 2020 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd. (SIH), a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, announced that, subject to regulatory approval, Christopher Donelan, currently the deputy CEO...

Sompo GRS Launches Replacement Value Protection Coverage for Real Estate Firms

Mar 6 2020 // Sompo Global Risk Solutions (GRS), a subsidiary of Sompo International Holdings Ltd., has entered into a partnership with independent risk management and insurance consulting firm Fisher Harris Shapiro, Inc. (FHS) to offer...

Sompo Global Risk Solutions Launches Product for Life Sciences Industry

Feb 11 2020 // Sompo Global Risk Solutions has introduced Sompo Life Science Plus, a products-completed operations and errors and omission liability protection product built for the life sciences industry. The new product offers coverage...

Sompo International Hires Allied World’s James to Run International Insurance Business

Jan 23 2020 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty property and casualty re/insurer, announced that Julian James will soon join the organization to lead the London market and international insurance...

Ed Broking Appoints Kelley from Sompo Int’l as Head of Bermuda Liability Division

Jan 15 2020 // Ed, the global reinsurance, wholesale and specialty broker, announces the appointment of Colin Kelley as head of Ed’s new Liability Division in Bermuda. Effective immediately, Kelley will lead the professional lines,...

Okumura to Succeed Frudd as CEO at Sompo International Holdings

Nov 19 2019 // Sompo International Holdings (SIH), a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property/casualty insurance and reinsurance, announced that Mikio Okumura will be appointed chief executive officer effective on January 1, 2020...