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.

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Conn.-Based Business Risk Partners Appoints Senior Underwriter

December 14, 2012Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetArticleComments

Business Risk Partners (BRP), a Windsor, Conn.-based managing general underwriter, appointed Jayne Downey as a senior underwriter overseeing the firm’s technology errors-and-omissions (E&O) and data breach/privacy products.

For over a decade, Downey worked as an underwriter with Chubb Specialty Insurance in its wholesale unit where she helped launch Chubb’s cyber products and managed underwriting for the western region. Her experience also includes E&O underwriting for miscellaneous professional liability, media, and lawyers.

Founded in 2000, BRP is a managing general underwriter in specialty insurance. It partners with global carriers and specialty agents and brokers nationwide to offer services for middle-market customers. BRP provides professional and management liability products to agents and brokers and their clients.

 

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J.M. Wilson Adds Pusateri as Underwriter in Wisconsin

November 8, 2012Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetArticleComments

Managing general agency J.M. Wilson has hired Kristen Pusateri as property/casualty insurance underwriter in its Madison, Wis., location to review, quote, bind and service commercial P/C accounts for Wisconsin independent agents.

Pusateri has experience working as an insurance agent and CSR for a retail insurance agency in Iowa. She was responsible for quoting accounts, making file amendments and handling claims. Her most recent employment was with Whole Foods Market where she was the customer service supervisor.

Founded in 1920, J.M. Wilson serves independent insurance agents in 20 states.

Source: J.M. Wilson

 

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Bridges Joins RSI International as Commercial Underwriter

January 4, 2013Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetArticleComments

Texas-based RSI International Inc. announced that Brian Bridges has joined the firm in the role of commercial underwriter. Bridges brings 10 years’ experience in commercial property/casualty insurance, specializing in middle market transactions.

Prior to joining RSI, Bridges worked as a sales executive for Pathfinder Insurance, based in Houston.

RSI International Inc. is a privately held managing general agency established in 1986 with offices in Arlington, Texas, and St. Louis, Mo.

Source: RSI International Inc.

 

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