excess casualty News

Aspen U.S. Insurance Opens Office in Dallas

Aspen U.S. Insurance, part of the insurance segment of Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited has opened an office in Dallas, Texas. The new Dallas office will serve as a hub to offer products and services to regional customers and brokers. Initially …

Marsh Launches Excess Casualty Coverage for Product Liability Risks

Marsh has launched Marsh IO+, an enhanced excess casualty product designed for companies with significant product and other mass tort exposures. Organizations like retailers, food and beverage companies, construction firms, and manufacturers that produce and sell a high volume of …

Argo Insurance Offers New Excess Casualty Facility

Argo Insurance, the Bermuda-based platform for Argo Group International Holdings’ worldwide professional and casualty lines, has launched a new excess casualty facility. Effective immediately, the new offering provides an additional $25 million in limits for targeted industries. The new facility …

Allied World Offers Casualty Lines for Canadian Market

Allied World Assurance Co. Holdings has launched an initial property /casualty offering in the Canadian market. Gord Kerr, senior vice president, chief agent and branch manager, will oversee the buildout of these lines and will be responsible for production, profitability …

Ironshore Launches Admitted Coverage for U.S. Companies Operating Overseas

Ironshore’s U.S. Specialty Casualty unit has launched a new coverage option for U.S.-based companies with overseas operational risk exposure. Ironshore International Connect will provide excess casualty coverage for U.S. companies’ overseas operations on a locally-admitted basis, which is designed to …

Aon Risk Solutions and XL Bermuda Develop New Health Care Product

Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon plc, and XL Group’s Bermuda Insurance Operations, XL Insurance (Bermuda) Ltd. (XLIB), announced a “new stand-alone integrated occurrence product called Catastrophic Integrated Occurrence or CAT IO.” The bulletin said the …

Aspen US Names DiBattista as SVP of Excess Casualty

Aspen US Insurance in New York has named Jude DiBattista as senior vice president and chief underwriting officer for Excess Casualty. DiBattista has 20 years of industry experience in property/casualty lines, most recently as environmental product manager for Aspen US …

Allied World Bermuda Launches Excess Casualty Coverage Package

Allied World Bermuda has launched Constellation, a suite of five excess casualty coverage enhancements combined into one package that complements its current portfolio of excess casualty products. These enhancements will be added to follow-form occurrence policies issued by the Bermuda …

High Risks Seeing Double-Digit Hikes in Excess Casualty Rates: Marsh

Excess casualty insurance rates continued to rise in the third quarter of 2012, as insurers sought higher prices amid increasing claims and litigation trends, and a low interest rate environment, insurance broker Marsh said in a report. Renewal rates rose …

ACE USA’s Excess Casualty Unit Expands Catastrophe Management Coverage

ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operations of the ACE Group, has expanded its catastrophe management insurance products with the introduction of the ACE Cat Management 2.5 endorsement by its ACE Excess Casualty Unit. This endorsement is designed to supplement ACE’s …