Underwriting

After qualifying as an actuary, he moved into underwriting at Catlin Syndicate, progressing to Underwriting manager.

The professional liability team is led by Kate Walas, an industry veteran with over 20 years of financial lines underwriting and leadership experience who served most recently as chief underwriting officer and founder of Indigo Specialty Underwriters.

Avmont, LLC, a leading longevity risk-based asset manager, deploys its proprietary underwriting, mortality tables and analytics across life settlements investments, medical underwriting, and longevity-linked consulting engagements.

From eight underwriting offices spanning the U.S. the Company focuses on niche markets, local distribution, and superior underwriting knowledge, offering traditional as well as innovative insurance solutions to meet the needs of its customers and brokers.

General Insurance International saw flat net premiums written (approximately $3.2 billion) year-over-year, with an underwriting loss for Commercial Insurance and declining, but still profitable underwriting income for Personal coverage.

In support of the product, North has brought on underwriting expertise from within Lloyd’s to its H&M insurance teams with the appointment of James Sutton (class underwriter) and Alex Fuller (senior underwriting executive).

TypTap considers itself an insurtech and refers to its technology process as “positive underwriting” to streamline the underwriting and sales process.

In this new role, Perez will partner with underwriting leaders in GRS’s North American businesses on underwriting strategy and operations.

In this role, Pearson is responsible for niche product management, home office underwriting, underwriting compliance and business systems.

Suitelife is based in West Chester, Penn., and is now a part of RSG Underwriting Managers LLC (RSGUM), the managing general underwriting unit of Ryan Specialty Group (RSG).

A group of experts gathered during Insurance Journal’s Insuring Cannabis Summit to talk about underwriting and reinsurance and the big picture trends that impact rates, availability, and terms in the insuring cannabis specialty.

And we don’t see any like underlying trends that make us concerned that, that will turn on as just the LTV of this portfolio is extremely low, FICOs are high, and underwriting standards are pretty tight.

Artificial intelligence, or AI, and machine learning, have increasingly integrated into insurtech for risk assessment, pricing, underwriting, fraud detection and customer service.

As a result, the reinsurance industry has paid dearly for much of the last decade; underwriting losses drove in global reinsurance losses in 2022.

As a result, Wolverine’s risk-adjusted capitalization has deteriorated significantly with corresponding increases in the company’s underwriting leverage metrics, AM Best said.

A spokesperson said, “Ms Sigle will be responsible for the overall management and strategic direction of the claims function across SiriusPoint’s diverse global underwriting portfolio.

But Athene, like most life insurers, has a high ratio of assets to equity and small investment or underwriting mistakes can lead to big negative consequences.

But I think we've always had good underwriting standards.

Domestic motor insurance makes up the lion's share of its business, and between normalizing claims frequency post-COVID and an inflation-driven rise in claims severity, the macro environment posed a severe headwind to underwriting profitability.

Further, the company provides corporate and investment banking, retail and wholesale brokerage, securities underwriting, and investment advisory services.