Endurance Specialty Holdings

• Endurance Hires Team to Start Excess Casualty Unit

  By Staff Writer  |  May 16, 2013

  Bermuda's Endurance Specialty Holdings says a new Excess Casualty team is joining the insurer.

• Hires and Promotions at Endurance Specialty, Sihle, Hub, SterlingRisk, Assurance and AmWINS- Around the Industry

  By Staff Writer  |  April 26, 2013

  IIABA names its Legislator of the Year and bestows agent awards, IronPro, Risk Placement Service and Glatefelt launch new programs

• P&C Perspective: Headlines From National Underwriter's Executive Conference

  January 14, 2013

  CEOs from leading P&C and Life insurance carriers gathered in New York City on Dec. 6-7 to headline the 23rd Annual Executive Conference, hosted by Ernst & Young and Summit Business Media (PC360-NU’s parent company). Attendees took advantage of the opportunity to meet their peers and discuss the state of...

• Interest-Rate Environment, Not Storms, Driving P&C Rate Increases, CFO Says

  By Bryant Rousseau, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  December 28, 2012

  Low interest rates, rather than storm losses, are driving the bulk of the rate increases in the insurance industry, says a company CFO.

• Endurance Buys Galileo Weather Risk Management, Forms New Unit

  By Staff Writer  |  November 20, 2012

  Endurance Specialty Holdings says it has acquired the assets of Galileo Weather Risk Management to form a new unit offering a suite of customized weather risk management products to help clients manage the impact of weather variability on their businesses.

• Endurance Launches Global Trade Credit, Surety Reinsurance Unit

  By Staff Writer  |  November 2, 2012

  Endurance says Christoph Virchow, formerly of Axis Re, has been hired as head of the new unit.

• Extra Credit: Continuing Education Options for Risk Managers

  By Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360  |  October 22, 2012

  The traditional defense-oriented, insurance-based role of the risk manager is giving way to an opportunities-driven approach linked to corporate strategy—a trend that is pushing risk professionals to seek continuing education (CE) courses teaching the business skills they need to stay competitive in today’s market.

• Execs, Analysts Try to Make Sense of Unique Market Cycle

  By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 6, 2012

  There is near universal agreement that carriers are achieving rate increases for property and casualty business, but analysts and company and brokerage executives struggle to say what can be expected over the long term as the industry appears to be in new territory from a pricing cycle standpoint.

• Insurers to Absorb Crop Losses Without Capital Hit, Says Fitch

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  July 23, 2012

  Fitch Ratings says net losses to private crop insurers will likely be an earnings event rather than a capital event.

• Billionaire Hedge-Fund Manager Steps into Reinsurance Ring

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  July 11, 2012

  Billionaire hedge-fund manager Steven A. Cohen has decided to inject $500 million of additional capital into the Bermuda reinsurance markets.

• Hires and Promotions at Alterra, Selective Insurance, Endurance, Beecher Carlson and More - Around the Industry

  By Staff Writer  |  May 7, 2012

  Nationwide Merges with Harleysville Mutual, Tower Group Invests $75 Million in Bermuda, and InVEST Raises $65,000 in Scholarship Funds

• Endurance Reports Thailand Flood, 4Q Operating Losses

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 20, 2012

  Bermuda’s Endurance Specialty Holdings and Argo Group International Holdings have released Thailand-related losses of up to $111.5 million in total.

• 3Q Earnings: Catastrophes Continue to Plague Insurers’ Results

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com, Mark E. Ruquet  |  November 4, 2011

  Third-quarter results are rolling in, and the theme remains the same as it has been throughout the year: Catastrophe losses are dragging down profits.

• 3Q Earnings: Loss for Endurance; 76% Drop for Aspen, Validus

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  October 28, 2011

  Results were not good for Bermuda-based insurance companies reporting third-quarter results late Thursday.

• Environmental Carriers Look To Grow With New, Industry-Specific Coverages

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  July 29, 2011

  To compete in a marketplace flooded with competition, environmental insurance carriers to better stand out from the pack are developing new products—built on a growing familiarity with and sophisticated grasp of the unique coverage requirements of specific industry classes.

• Loss Estimates Roll In For Deadly Spring Storms, Tornadoes

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 3, 2011

  On May 22, a devastating tornado ripped through Joplin, Mo., putting an exclamation point on a spring that has seen deadly and costly storms in several states.