U.S. Special Casualty Treaty Business

Our responsibilities

Our department is responsible for US Special Casualty business including non-medical professional liability i.e. financial lines, excess & surplus lines / programs, commercial umbrella and transportation business.

In general, our maximum capacity is up to USD 5 million per risk / per occurrence, with additional capacity available on a case-by-case basis. We support all kinds of insurance companies from small companies to national writers, and mono-line to multi-line carriers. We exclusively work through reinsurance brokers.

Our team for specialty casualty accounts serves the market for commercial umbrella / excess casualty and E&S casualty including business such as environmental and public entity. Further, we look at MGA-driven casualty programs and stand-alone commercial auto business albeit with a rather cautious approach.

We are also providing reinsurance solutions for all non-medical professional liability business including commercial and not-for-profit D&O and all segments of E&O such as lawyers E&O and A&E. This further includes coverage for fidelity as well as cyber business and transactional liability (R&W) which we prefer to write on a stand-alone basis.

We consider ourselves cyclical underwriters and are a quoting market for both proportional and non-proportional treaties.

Our goals

Our goal is to offer our clients solutions that fit their needs. Due to short reporting lines, we can provide quick turnaround on underwriting and claims. Hannover Re’s A+ rating by A.M. Best, as well as the AA- by Standard & Poor’s furnish our clients with the security they need, especially on the casualty business.