CORE INSURANCE
Core Specialty Insurance Holdings | October 18, 2021
Core Specialty Insurance Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries is pleased to announce to its brokers a new agreement with Risk Placement Services ("RPS") to provide lawyers professional liability. RPS is a leading specialty program manager in the professional liability and errors & omissions marketplace. The new relationship will build on RPS's underwriting and marketing experience in this niche. The program is now available on a non-admitted basis and the Company plans on offering admitted based coverage upon completion of its filings. This program, for standard market lawyers business with RPS, was established to complement Core Specialty's non-standard lawyers product, offered through the Company's limited distribution, and Core Specialty remains committed to servicing this market segment long-term.
This new RPS Signature Programs offering will be available Nationwide (except AK) on A-(Excellent) AM Best Rating, Financial Size Category XI, and will provide Lawyers Professional Liability (LPL) coverage for small- to mid-sized Law Firms.
Highlights of the Lawyers Professional Liability Program are:
1 to 50 Attorney Firms
Broad Definition of Professional Services
Claims Expenses in addition to the limit of liability available
First Dollar Defense deductible available
50% reduction for agreement to use mediation and the claim is settled at mediation (Up to $25,000)
Per Claim and Aggregate deductible options
Relaxed Consent to Settle Clause 50/50
Limits of Liability up to $5,000,000 available
Pre-Claim Assistance
"RPS Signature Programs has more than 35 years of underwriting experience with the primary focus on this line of business. We are using our expertise in professional liability writing $30,000,000 in premium placed this past year, which means that when you have questions, we have answers,"
- Adrienne Woodhull, area president with RPS Signature Programs.
Jeff Consolino, President and Chief Executive Officer of Core Specialty commented, "When Core Specialty completed the recapitalization of StarStone U.S. Holdings, Inc. on November 30, 2020, we established the Errors & Omissions Professional Liability Division and recruited Jeff Jacobs as Division President to increase our focus on these product lines. We believe many professional liability classes are continuing to see strong opportunity after changes in appetite in the admitted market created a void that has not yet been filled by E&S markets."
About Core Specialty
Core Specialty offers a diversified range of property and casualty insurance products for small to mid-sized businesses. From underwriting offices spanning the U.S., the Company focuses on niche markets, local distribution, and superior underwriting knowledge, offering traditional as well as innovative insurance solutions to meet the needs of its customers and brokers. Core Specialty is an insurance holding company operating through StarStone Specialty Insurance Company, a U.S. excess and surplus lines insurer, and StarStone National Insurance Company, a U.S. admitted markets insurer. The Company is rated A- (Excellent) by AM Best.
About RPS Signature Program
RPS Signature Programs manages a variety of specialized programs on behalf of highly rated carriers, offering proprietary insurance solutions in niche markets. Headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, RPS Signature Programs is a division of Risk Placement Services, one of the nation's largest specialty insurance product distributors.
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AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE
High Street Insurance Partners | January 24, 2022
High Street Insurance Partners ("HSIP") announced its December acquisition of Insurance Services Group (ISG), a full-service, regional insurance brokerage firm. ISG is headquartered in Washington and serves clients in 12 states, with a large concentration in the West.
"This acquisition represents our continued expansion in the West, With the addition of ISG, we can assist a greater number of clients with a full spectrum of insurance needs."
-Scott Wick, CEO of HSIP.
"We are excited to join HSIP. Their vision aligns perfectly with ours; commitment to our clients and the local communities in which we live. We will be able to leverage the partnership to continue to provide best-in-class solutions to all our clients."
-Trevor Campbell, President of Insurance Services Group
This acquisition is one of 17 finalized in December, making HSIP one of the most active brokerage firms in 2021, in terms of acquisitions. HSIP has acquired 97 agencies in just three years. The firm has a geographical footprint spanning 23 states.
About High Street Insurance Partners
High Street Insurance Partners (HSIP) is a full-service, independent insurance brokerage firm. Founded in 2018, the Traverse City, Michigan-based company provides a broad array of business insurance & risk management; employee benefits & human capital management; financial & retirement services; and personal insurance solutions delivered through community-focused agencies. HSIP employs over 1,700 insurance specialists & consultants in offices based in Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, & Washington.
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Milliman | November 18, 2021
Milliman, Inc., a premier global consulting and actuarial firm, announced that it has released the latest version of its Arius® insurtech solutions, a family of state-of-the-art reserve analysis systems for property and casualty insurers. This update provides significant enhancements to the systems' analytical, reporting, and data management tools.
This release provides tools to help actuaries and insurance analysts more easily build and share statistical exhibits among multiple projects, providing more consistent analysis and more efficient management review. It also adds new reports to help users with Canadian and IFRS-17 reporting requirements.
Arius® insurtech solutions is a family of state-of-the-art reserve analysis systems for property and casualty insurers
In addition, the release includes new API capabilities, additions to the system's role-based security options, and enhanced controls related to editing and managing data files, both in the Arius Enterprise system and in the Triangles on Demand data management solution.
"Our goal with the Arius solutions is to relieve the burden of managing the overall reserving process from our clients' shoulders, so they can spend their valuable time helping and advising their business. This release furthers those efforts with additional steps to enhance the overall efficiency and reliability of the actuarial reserving team."
- Ken Scalf, reserving products manager at Milliman
About the Arius family of solutions
The Arius solution set includes Arius Deterministic, Arius Stochastic, Triangles on Demand®, and Arius Enterprise. Arius Deterministic and Stochastic are self-contained reserve analysis systems that eliminate the potential spreadsheet risk inherent in tools developed in-house by many insurance actuarial teams. Triangles on Demand (ToD) uses the latest cloud technology to instantly aggregate millions of records of loss and claims data on the fly for review in Arius. Designed specifically for large insurance carriers and self-insureds, Arius Enterprise combines the Arius analysis system and ToD with sophisticated Microsoft Azure-based project, user, and reporting management solutions to address the added efficiency and reliability requirements of sophisticated reserving departments. Milliman's Claim Variability Benchmarks provide benchmark statistics for comparison with an insurer's own data, drawn from statistical analysis of 5,100 companies and over 30 years of activity.
About Milliman
Milliman is among the world's largest providers of actuarial and related products and services. The firm has consulting practices in healthcare, property & casualty insurance, life insurance and financial services, and employee benefits. Founded in 1947, Milliman is an independent firm with offices in major cities around the globe.
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