Category: Insurance

Global reinsurer Swiss Re has appointed Sanghita Nandy and Francesco Atzeni to its Global Property and P&C Re Underwriting Strategy leadership team. Nandy has been named Head of P&C Treaty UW Advisory. She has spent the past 11 years at Swiss Re and has worked across multiple areas, including natural catastrophe modelling and analytics, property…

Global professional services firm Aon has announced the launch of Totalis Specialty Group, a unified specialty insurance group that brings together NFP Totalis Program Underwriters and Aon Affinity’s U.S. programs business under a single go-to-market strategy and identity. Totalis Specialty Group reportedly combines specialty underwriting, program administration, distribution, technology and data capabilities to support brokers,…

Global professional services firm Aon has announced the launch of Totalis Specialty Group, a unified specialty insurance group that brings together NFP Totalis Program Underwriters and Aon Affinity’s U.S. programs business under a single go-to-market strategy and identity. Totalis Specialty Group reportedly combines specialty underwriting, program administration, distribution, technology and data capabilities to support brokers,…

Fitch Ratings, a global credit ratings agency providing assessments and analysis across financial markets, expects intensifying El Niño conditions to create additional challenges for Brazil’s insurance industry. The agency said more frequent and severe weather events could result in higher claims and weaker technical performance, particularly among insurers with significant exposure to catastrophe-prone business lines….

Verisk, a data analytics and technology provider to the global re/insurance industry, has promoted Harry White to Head of Property Claim Services (PCS). PCS is a Verisk business providing independent industry loss estimates for catastrophe and non-catastrophe events worldwide to the global insurance, reinsurance, and insurance-linked securities markets. In his new role, White will lead…

Severe convective storm systems swept across Europe in recent days, unleashing damaging winds, large hail and torrential rainfall that caused localised flash flooding. The storms are expected to result in aggregate economic and insured losses of hundreds of millions of euros, according to Aon. The severe weather affected parts of Western, Central and Northern Europe,…

Vivace Insurance Partners, an independent managing general agent (MGA) and part of the +8 Partners insurance business ecosystem, has appointed Cordell Fenig as Chief Executive Officer of its Americas operation. Fenig has moved into the leadership position after more than two years with Vivace, having joined the business as a senior underwriter ahead of its…

FutureProof Technologies, an AI-native property insurance MGA and Agency, has announced the appointment of Jonathan Mertz as Chief Business Officer. In his new role, Mertz will lead FutureProof’s business development, strategic partnerships and go-to-market efforts as the company scales towards building its AI-native full-stack property insurance carrier. He brings more than two decades of experience…

Pinpoint UK Solutions Ltd, part of AM Specialty Insurance Group (ASIG), has adopted Risque, an underwriter-built platform established by Quotech, a developer of integrated technology solutions for underwriting and broking teams. Initially, Pinpoint UK will deploy Quotech systems to underwrite UK commercial property business. Pinpoint UK, the Lloyd’s coverholder, was established to lead ASIG’s expansion…

AIG, a global insurance organisation providing a broad range of commercial insurance and risk management solutions, has welcomed two new colleagues to its Casualty DACH team in Germany. Bianca Keim has joined AIG as Senior Underwriter Casualty, Southern Germany, based in the company’s Heilbronn office. She will support AIG’s Team South and contribute to its…