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Ohio’s Westfield Launches Specialty Insurance Business

Westfield, a Westfield Center, Ohio-based super-regional property/casualty insurance company with a 173-year history, is entering the specialty insurance business with the launch of Westfield Specialty. Westfield appointed insurance veteran Jack Kuhn president of the new business. Current market conditions coupled …

Sompo International Launches Global Risk Control Services Function

Sompo International, a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, announced it has launched a Global Risk Control Services function within its insurance business. Under the leadership of Victor Sordillo, senior vice president, Risk Control, the team …

Sompo International Launches ‘SomPro,’ a Financial & Professional Lines Platform

Sompo International Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty re/insurance, announced that the company is launching SomPro, a global financial and professional lines platform encompassing insurance and reinsurance capabilities. SomPro said it aims to deliver market-leading underwriting, …

Sompo International to Launch Specialty Operation in Spain; Executive Team Named

Sompo International announced it will launch a specialty insurance underwriting operation in Barcelona, Spain. Sompo currently has a London-based operation but must open EU-based headquarters in order to conduct business seamlessly after the U.K. exits the European Union. It has …

Sompo International to Acquire Novae’s Financial Institutions’ Renewal Rights

Sompo International, a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty re/insurance, announced its London market insurance platform has agreed to acquire Novae Syndicates Ltd.’s financial institutions’ (FI) renewal rights. The purchase, which excludes emerging markets business, encompasses a portfolio that …

Sompo International Taps QBE’s Sordillo as Sr. VP, Loss Control Leader

Sompo International, the Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, announced that Victor Sordillo has joined the company as senior vice president, loss control leader. Sordillo is responsible for directing the company’s loss control team in the …