E&S/Specialty

The CEO of Fortegra Financial believes he has a distinct edge as he competes to acquire property and casualty wholesale brokerages and regional specialty agencies to add to his firm’s suite of insurance-service operations: Being a New York Stock Exchange-listed public company.

An overriding theme of the latest wave of mergers and acquisitions in the insurance industry: strategic buys of specialty-flavored books is specialization.

If you own an underwriting agency with a very specialized, quality book of business—and have no plans to sell it—then Stephen Way, CEO of Houston International Insurance Group, may want to talk about making a deal.

For the CEO of Crum & Forster, Doug Libby, there is little not to like about the $294 million deal that adds First Mercury Financial Corp. to his group’s specialty-insurance operations. Libby sat down with NU for an exclusive …

Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG and Transatlantic Holdings, Inc. announced a $3.2 billion merger deal that executives say will create a global specialty insurer and reinsurer operating in 18 countries on six continents.

An industry analyst using a proprietary scoring method for property and casualty insurers says the first-quarter combined score for the top-100 commercial-lines writers reveals the first indication of a possible turn in six years.