Pen Underwriting
Quizzical questions: 15 September 2017
Test your knowledge of the week's news with our topical quiz.
Pen CUO Martin Hall moves to ERS
Martin Hall has moved from Pen Underwriting to ERS to take on active underwriter role.
Pen promotes Tom Downey to CUO role
Downey's promotion also sees two other members of Pen’s leadership team start executive-level responsibility from 1 October.
Markel International to buy ECIC
ECIC provides products for contractors and affinity groups in the UK building services sector.
InsurTech Futures: Brokers urged not to sit on the side-lines
Experts say there is already potential for significant disruption by InsurTech in the personal lines market.
Pen and CNA Hardy partner on new construction offering
Pen says product aims to help brokers win and retain business in competitive and challenging market.
#BibaFever B-B-Q: Aviva, Towergate and Zurich set out insurance industry demands for new UK Government
As the British Insurance Brokers’ Association got underway in Manchester this morning the #BibaFever team went out to grill senior executives about the issues that matter.
Market moves: Spring has sprung
Spring is here and brokers continue to see fewer people moves than insurers.
Quizzical questions: 28 April 2017
Test your knowledge of the week's news with our topical quiz.
Pen and Markel in £25m equestrian sector deal
New partnership comes into force at the beginning of May.
#Insagepeople: 24 - 30 April 2017
Keep up to date with all the latest people moves.
Broking Break: Your Top Five
New logos, people moves, acquisitions and secret FCA warnings make up the most read stories of this week.
Paul Upton leaves Evolution Underwriting
Upton had been group CEO of Evolution since 2013.
Ogden – the symptom not the root cause
Pen Underwriting’s Nick Wright, argues that now is the time to address the root cause of commercial payouts with proper risk management and prevention of workplace accidents.
Broking Break: Your Top Five
Products and changes in capacity arrangements were the favourite stories of the past week while GRP’s biggest ever UK retail broker buy topped the charts.
RSA ends roofers and scaffolders capacity with Pen
Insurer and MGA still working together on other business lines.
Broking Break: Your top five of the week
Two major insurer restructures, CEO changes, swapping software houses and a new product make up this week's most read stories.
Jonathan Turner new CEO of Pen Underwriting as Mark Armitage moves to Gallagher
Armitage joins Gallagher as managing director, broking and placement.
Pound Gates Children’s Nursery scheme transfers to Ecclesiastical
The insurer takes over the £2.3m GWP scheme which was underwritten by RSA via Pen Underwriting.
#insagepeople 9 - 15 January
Keep up to date with the latest people moves.
#insagepeople: 28 November - 4 December 2016
Keep up to date with all the latest people moves.
Pen Underwriting enhances delegated commercial business
Key areas to undergo improvement include compliance and governance and technical support.
Pen appoints Phil Nichols as underwriting director
He will be responsible for expanding e-traded business.
Pen Underwriting looking at further acquisitions
Managing director Mark Armitage also says new underwriting areas being developed.