ProWriters Acquired; Opens as Independent Managing General Underwriter

November 28, 2012Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetArticleComments

West Chester, Pa.-based ProWriters (www.prowritersins.com), formerly a professional liability division of Venture Insurance Programs, has become an independent managing general underwriter (MGU).

Brian Thornton, the new president of ProWriters and a 13-year veteran of the insurance industry, has acquired the program.

ProWriters provides professional and management liability insurance to specific industry segments including a focus on financial and healthcare industries. Delivered exclusively through agents and brokers, ProWriters offers directors and officers liability, errors and omissions, employment practices liability, crime, cyber and privacy liability coverage.

ProWriters provides access to insurers rated

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Moonlighting: Why You Don’t Want To Be The General Counsel

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N.Y. Attorney General Warns Homeowners About New Mortgage Scams

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New York’s attorney general is warning homeowners to be alert for phone calls from people posing as bank or government officials to get personal information through bogus offers of help with their mortgages.

Eric Schneiderman says the calls are connected to the recent national settlement of loan management and foreclosure abuses by banks.

He says some of the scammers are offering help making a loan payment and asking for a borrower’s bank account routing information. Others may ask for an upfront fee for help with a mortgage modification.

In any case, Schneiderman says the best defense is refusing to provide personal and financial information that their actual banks will already have. And charging the upfront fees is illegal in New York.

Suspicious calls should be reported to Schneiderman’s office.

 

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