Scott Egan News

Parent of Key SiriusPoint Shareholder Goes Into Receivership; Ratings Impact Neutral

SiriusPoint Ltd., the Bermuda-based specialty insurer and reinsurer, announced that the parent company of a key shareholder has been taken into private receivership by its lenders in Singapore. CMIG International Holding Pte Ltd (CMIH) is the parent company of CM …

Re/insurer SiriusPoint and MGA Banyan Risk Extend Capacity Relationship

SiriusPoint Ltd., the specialty insurer and reinsurer, and managing general agent Banyan Risk Ltd. announced an extension of their capacity partnership. The deal extends for three years the Bermuda-based companies’ existing commercial relationship. At the same time, it concludes the …

Serious Change Underway at SiriusPoint

SiriusPoint has seen a cluster of challenges over the past two years—ranging from an incomplete merger integration to persistent underwriting and investment losses to several leadership shake-ups. First there was the merger. Third Point Re merged with Sirius International Insurance …

SiriusPoint Names Former RSA Executive Egan as CEO

SiriusPoint Ltd., the Bermuda-based specialty re/insurer, announced that Scott Egan has been appointed as the company’s chief executive officer, effective Sept. 21, 2022. Most recently the chief executive of Royal Sun Alliance (RSA) UK & International, and a FTSE 100 …

People Moves: Norgrove to Succeed Egan as RSA CEO, UK & International; Marsh Promotes 3 Senior Leaders for Financial and Professional Specialty

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at RSA UK & International and Marsh. A summary of these new hires follows here. Norgrove to Succeed Egan as RSA CEO, UK & International Toronto-based Intact Financial Corp. announced that Ken …

RSA Ireland Names Thompson from Insurance Ireland as CEO

Kevin Thompson has been appointed chief executive of RSA Ireland after being approved by the regulator Central Bank of Ireland. He will replace Ken Norgrove, who is moving to the role of CEO of Codan/Trygg-Hansa, RSA Group’s Scandinavian business. Thompson …

U.K. Insurer RSA Merges Commercial Risk Solutions, Global Risk Solutions Businesses

RSA UK & International has merged its Commercial Risk Solutions (CRS) and Global Risk Solutions (GRS) businesses to create a single business unit focused on commercial lines. This move follows another restructuring in 2016 when the two divisions — CRS …

RSA Taps AXA’s Rueegg as Middle East CEO; Other Executives Promoted in Region

RSA Insurance has appointed Martin Rueegg as the new chief executive of the Middle East and United Arab Emirates (UAE). Rueegg joins from AXA where he was general insurance managing director for Hong Kong. He replaces Lloyd East who moves …

UK’s RSA Plans to Exit Three London-Based Global Business Lines

RSA plans to pull out of several international business lines run out of London which it says are unlikely to produce the returns which the British insurer is seeking following a September profit warning. Closing international construction, international freight and …

Just Like Many British Homes, UK Insurers’ Shares Are Subsiding This Summer

Just like a lot of British houses this summer, U.K. insurance stocks are sinking. The country’s non-life insurers sector had its steepest drop in more than a year-and-a-half on Friday after its biggest constituent, RSA Insurance Group Plc, warned this …