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Mark Birrell, Chief Executive of Castel Underwriting Agencies (Castel), the club-style MGA formation platform, has, today, been appointed as a board director of the Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA). Birrell’s appointment follows a formal ballot of the Association’s MGA membership to elect member representatives to the board. His directorship, for a three-year term, was ratified […]

Castel Underwriting Agencies (Castel), the MGA platform has today launched its first corporate underwriting cell, working with One Re, a specialist African focused reinsurer, to target facultative reinsurance business across Sub-Saharan Africa. One Facultative Acceptances will be underwriting property and engineering facultative reinsurance portfolios for African-domiciled businesses. The capacity is led by A+ security rated […]

MGAs are keen to be more involved in the claims process; they view claims as a core competence and recognise its intrinsic link with underwriting according to the latest MGAA Matters Survey1. The fourth survey looks at the current role of MGAs in the claims process and their future plans to develop their claims functions […]

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 […]