Specialty
MGAs by the Numbers: Fronting Biz, Non-Affiliated MGAs Drive Growth
Direct premiums written by U.S. managing general agents jumped to over $114 billion in 2024, according to the latest installment of an annual research series on the MGA market. The report titled ...
White Mountains Acquiring Majority Stake in MGA Distinguished Programs
Bermuda-based financial services holding company White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Distinguished Programs. ...
Editor’s Question: Who Created the First U.S. MGA?
Readers of a book about the history of the insurance industry—or more specifically, about Crum & Forster's place in the last 200-plus years—will find out that C&F executives were ...
How a Decentralized Structure Opens Career Paths at C&F
Thankfully, members of the next generation of leaders in the property/casualty insurance industry have had no direct experience with insurance company failures, rehabs and restructurings that ...
Cigar Butts and Toxic Sludge: The Rebirth of a P/C Insurer
It's hard to imagine an executive describing his company and its peers in the industry as "cigar butt companies where the butt had been dropped in toxic nuclear sludge, [and] rolled in asbestos…" ...
How Decentralization Works at C&F
Crum & Forster CEO Marc Adee remembers what it was like in years past when he was leading divisions of a company then operating under a centralized model that forced him to fight for corporate ...
AmRisc Launches Reciprocal Exchange for Commercial E&S Market
AmRisc, a subsidiary of Alabama-based CRC Group and Truist Insurance Holdings, has launched a reciprocal exchange, initally writing in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, California and Colorado, the company ...
Adaptive Insurance, Tokio Marine HCC Partner on Power Outage Losses
Adaptive Insurance, a provider of parametric insurance solutions, has partnered with specialty insurer Tokio Marine HCC on GridProtect—an insurance product for short-term power outages. The ...