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Lockton has named Marsh’s most senior financial and professional lines broker in North America, Devin Beresheim, as executive vice president of Lockton Specialty Practices...
Over the past 18 months, the P&C market has become increasingly focused on signs of rising social inflation...
Markel co-CEO Richard Whitt said today that rate rises in professional lines and casualty are a necessity, not just a “nice to have”...
Price Forbes has confirmed additional hires from JLT Specialty to form a professional lines team led by Peter Boardman and Guy Robinson...
Applied Underwriters, a workers’ compensation carrier recently sold by Berkshire Hathaway, has been fined $3mn by New York regulators for allegedly overcharging businesses...
A judge has approved controversial plans by bankrupt Californian utility PG&E to set up a captive for directors’ and officers’ (D&O) cover after it was priced out of the excess management...
Alianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) is to cease underwriting long-tail financial risks in Australia and New Zealand due to increasing claims arising from litigation and class action suits...
Beleaguered insurer AmTrust Financial is again facing scrutiny over its accounting choices after a short seller accused the company of making material misstatements in its statutory...
Lloyd’s underwriters battling TD Bank over a C$300mn ($225.8mn) claim related to Florida’s biggest Ponzi scheme are demanding access to records for bank accounts used in the fraud...
Aegis London is one of the managing agents that Lloyd’s has granted permission to grow beyond plan in 2019 to capitalise on improving market conditions, The Insurance Insider can reveal...
