London-based Miller Insurance Services Limited announced that Brian Connolly has joined its Energy, Property & Casualty business unit. He has more than 30 years’ experience in the insurance market, previously as an underwriter and since 1992 as a broker, “in …
Willis North America (WNA), a unit of Willis Group Holdings (NYSE:WSH), named Alastair Swift to its senior management team as chief placement officer, effective immediately. Swift will report to Don Bailey, chairman and CEO, Willis North America, and will relocate …
Torus announced that it is in the process of establishing a London-based property tem to serve the UK. David Ring joins the Company to lead the new operations as UK Head of General Property. He is responsible for managing and …
Markel International has appointed Tom Davies as liability underwriter in the insurer’s Marine and Energy Division. Davies has eight years of experience in marine and energy insurance and has spent the last six years at Catlin, most recently in the …
Insurance industry veteran and National Association of Professional Lines Offices (NAPSLO) founder A. Mason Blodgett died peacefully on Jan. 14, 2010, at age 94. Blodgett’s insurance career spanned more than seven decades. It began in Boston in 1932 with “little …
A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength ratings of ‘A’ (Excellent) and the issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a” of Aspen Insurance UK Limited (AIUK), Bermuda-based Aspen Insurance Limited (AIL), and Aspen Specialty Insurance Company (ASIC), which is based …
State Farm will drop as many as 1,650 insurance policies on homes on North Carolina’s coastal barrier islands, according to state officials. Kristin Millam, public information director for the North Carolina Department of Insurance, said State Farm executives told regulators …
The World Economic Forum released Global Risks 2010, its annual report on the most significant global risks facing the global economy, in a presentation held at Marsh’s London office. The report, which the WEF has prepared in each of the …
Marsh has appointed Julian Macey-Dare as International Leader of its Political Risk and Structured Credit Practice, based in London. He will “drive new business opportunities for Marsh’s Political Risk and Structured Credit Practice globally outside of the US and oversee …
New York regulators are aggressively pursuing plans for a reincarnation of the New York Insurance Exchange and expect to finish assembling a “working group” of industry insiders within the next two months who will guide the revival of a Lloyd’s …
