London – Castel Underwriting Agencies, the club-style MGA formation platform, has today appointed Vanessa Powell as its first claims manager. Powell joins from Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group where she was Aviation Claims Manager. She has over 30 years’ experience across all classes of aviation claims and has held senior claims roles within a number of established […]

Castel Underwriting Agencies, the club-style MGA formation platform, has today appointed James Nugent as its first chief underwriting officer. Nugent joins from Amlin where he was head of underwriting performance and responsible for underwriting performance, governance and quality assurance. His insurance career spans over 35 years, 25 years of which were spent with Amlin (previously […]

Altitude Risk Partners, Castel’s global aviation and space underwriting business, has added the General Insurance Corporation of India, the world’s 15th largest reinsurer, to its aviation capacity providers. The Indian government owned business joins existing capacity providers Barbican Syndicate 1955, HDI-Gerling Industrie Versicherung AG, Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Inc, China Pacific Property Insurance Company Ltd […]

Newbridge Risk Partners has launched today on the Castel Underwriting Agencies MGA formation platform to target political violence and terrorism risks. The new underwriting cell will be fully focused on the emerging markets regions including, but not limited to, MENA and the Gulf States, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin & South America and Asia regions. It will […]

Medical & Commercial International (MCI) is a medical and general liability underwriting cell targeting medical malpractice, pharmaceutical liability, clinical trial liability and commercial general liability risks.  MCI aims to provide brokers and their clients with a market-leading combination of broad underwriting appetite supported by specific industry sector experience. MCI is able to write risks for […]