CORE INSURANCE,INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Ryan Specialty | December 12, 2022
Ryan Specialty (NYSE: RYAN), a leading international specialty insurance firm, is pleased to announce that today it signed a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets of Griffin Underwriting Services (“Griffin”), a binding authority specialist and wholesale insurance broker headquartered in Bellevue, WA.
Griffin, founded in 1928, has deep relationships with retail insurance brokers both in the Pacific Northwest and across the country. Griffin offers a broad array of solutions across various specialty insurance lines, including earthquake and transportation. Griffin’s technical acumen and consistent underwriting results have attracted the support of numerous leading carriers.
“We are excited to embrace the exceptional professionals at Griffin into Ryan Specialty. Griffin deepens our offerings in the Pacific Northwest, broadening our geographic scope and capabilities. Additionally, Griffin is a critical piece to our continual buildout of our national binding authority offering. We look forward to welcoming the Griffin team to Ryan Specialty.”
-Tim Turner, President of Ryan Specialty and Chairman and CEO of RT Specialty
Jason Griffin and Van Griffin, Co-Presidents of Griffin Underwriting Services, remarked, We are very familiar with RT Specialty and are thrilled to be joining the team. At Griffin, we pride ourselves in developing top talent and offering a culture that empowers the individual. It is clear that Ryan Specialty is built on this same philosophy. We’re excited about the opportunities that this new phase will create for our employees, and we look forward to the future as a part of the Ryan Specialty family.
About Ryan Specialty
Founded in 2010, Ryan Specialty is a service provider of specialty products and solutions for insurance brokers, agents and carriers. Ryan Specialty provides distribution, underwriting, product development, administration and risk management services by acting as a wholesale broker and a managing underwriter with delegated authority from insurance carriers. Ryan Specialty’s mission is to provide industry-leading innovative specialty insurance solutions for insurance brokers, agents and carriers.
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CLAIMS,INSURANCE TECHNOLOGY
CoreLogic and Zurich UK | November 07, 2022
CoreLogic, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, is pleased to announce that Zurich Insurance UK (“Zurich”) will use CoreLogic’s digital claims workflow and collaboration platform to enhance its claims operations.
In the UK, Zurich provides a suite of insurance products including commercial and retail property insurance. The agreement with CoreLogic will enable Zurich to enhance its existing claims capabilities by digitising processes on a secure, real-time web application – bringing a streamlined and much simpler claims experience for its customers, handlers and key supply chain partners.
The CoreLogic platform helps to standardise claims processing on a single, cloud-based platform, enabling consistent and efficient triaging, for desk based adjusting and settlement and supply chain allocation. Delivering reduced claim lifecycles, greater cost control, enhanced accuracy and transparency into the claims management process, the platform provides a streamlined workflow management solution. This allows users to easily and securely access, share and process information and data, as well as communicate and collaborate more effectively.
“Zurich has a strong reputation for its customer-centric focus and is now looking to enhance the customer experience even further through a faster, streamlined and easy-to-use claims experience. We are delighted that they have put their trust in our claims platform to help them achieve that goal.
-Mark Barrett, Vice President UK Go To Market, Insurance Solutions, CoreLogic
By digitising processes and bringing everyone on to one single platform, Zurich’s teams, suppliers and customers will all benefit from better communication and transparency throughout the whole claims journey. The Claims Connect™ platform enables higher quality data and resultant insights, greater process efficiencies and ensures that customers can receive the help and support they need at a time that suits them. We are excited about bringing our solution’s value to Zurich’s claims teams, suppliers and customers through this new relationship, saysMark Barrett, Vice President UK Go To Market, Insurance Solutions, CoreLogic.
Helen Rogers, Zurich’s Head of Claims Digital Experience, said: This collaboration will benefit both our customers and our supply chain partners. CoreLogic’s technology will enable our teams to speed up the customer journey by putting claims into the right hands, quicker. In addition, we will have a single source of data that will drive greater simplicity and consistency throughout the claims process as well as enhancing supply chain resilience and efficiencies.
About CoreLogic
CoreLogic is a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider. The company’s combined data from public, contributory and proprietary sources includes over 4.5 billion records spanning more than 50 years, providing detailed coverage of property, mortgages and other encumbrances, consumer credit, tenancy, location, hazard risk and related performance information.
The markets CoreLogic serves include real estate and mortgage finance, insurance, capital markets and the public sector. CoreLogic delivers value to clients through unique data, analytics, workflow technology, advisory and managed services. Clients rely on CoreLogic to help identify and manage growth opportunities, improve performance and mitigate risk. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., CoreLogic operates in North America, UK and Western Europe, and Asia Pacific.
About Zurich UK
Zurich UK provides a suite of general insurance and life insurance products to retail and corporate customers. We supply personal, commercial and local authority insurance through a number of distribution channels, and offer a range of protection policies available online and through financial intermediaries for the retail market and via employee benefit consultants for the corporate market. Based in a number of locations across the UK – with large sites in Birmingham, Farnborough, Glasgow, London, Swindon and Whiteley – Zurich employs approximately 4,500 people in the UK.
Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) is a leading multi-line insurer serving people and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. Founded 150 years ago, Zurich is transforming insurance. In addition to providing insurance protection, Zurich is increasingly offering prevention services such as those that promote wellbeing and enhance climate resilience.
Reflecting its purpose to ‘create a brighter future together’, Zurich aspires to be one of the most responsible and impactful businesses in the world. It is targeting net-zero emissions by 2050 and has the highest-possible ESG rating from MSCI. In 2020, Zurich launched the Zurich Forest project to support reforestation and biodiversity restoration in Brazil.
The Group has about 56,000 employees and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. Zurich Insurance Group Ltd (ZURN) is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and has a level I American Depositary Receipt (ZURVY) program, which is traded over-the-counter on OTCQX.
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CORE INSURANCE
Specialty Program Group and Catapult Insurance Solutions | November 03, 2022
Specialty Program Group LLC (SPG), a leading operator of specialty insurance brokerages and underwriting facilities, announced today the acquisition of the assets of Catapult Insurance Solutions. Catapult is a privately held managing general insurance agency and wholesale brokerage for niche industries and hard-to-place risks.
Led by President Tim Sunderman, Catapult's largest delegated authority program is dedicated to providing residential homebuilders, commercial general contractors and trade contractors with best-in-class products and services, including general liability, umbrella, builder's risk, contractor's equipment and workers' compensation.
In addition, Catapult is a Lloyds Coverholder and also provides solutions for hard-to-place risks for coastal and other high hazard property, specialty trade contractor GL, deductible buy downs, commercial DIC (EQ & Flood), and contractor's equipment. Catapult's infrastructure is designed for program incubation and development.
"Tim and his team have implemented a targeted growth strategy and innovative technology platform that have enabled them to become an extremely successful and growing niche player, Their deep expertise in the construction space will expand SPG's offerings and accelerate our growth in this growing industry."
-SPG President & CEO Christopher Treanor
We are extremely excited to join the SPG team. Our firms share in the entrepreneurial spirit that has made the specialty distribution space so dynamic and appealing, Their operating philosophy allows for significant autonomy, which was very important as we selected a business partner. The resources and market presence SPG offers will allow us to build upon our capabilities in the niche segments we represent, expand our geographical footprint and ultimately benefit our current and future distribution partners through enhanced products and service. We are encouraged by what we can build together,said Tim Sunderman, President of Catapult.
About Specialty Program Group
Headquartered in Summit, NJ, Specialty Program Group is a fully licensed holding company established to acquire and scale best-in-class insurance underwriting facilities and specialty businesses throughout North America. SPG has a vast portfolio of specialty companies and is over two billion in premium.
About Catapult Insurance Solutions
Founded in 2007, Catapult Insurance Solutions, LLC is a privately held managing general agency, wholesale brokerage and Lloyd's Coverholder that currently underwrites and administers premium in excess of $50 million through niche programs. Catapult's products are distributed through a group of select agents and brokers throughout the U.S.
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