Sompo International has been granted a license to write primary insurance in France.

Mr. Guegan joins Sompo International from Generali.

The program will launch in California and rollout to additional states.

Both will be based in Zurich and report into Ralph Brand, President, Continental Europe Insurance.

Sompo International announced the appointment of Apundeep Lamba as head of Reinsurance, Canada.

Expanding insurance operations into Canada is a big step forward in the company’s global geographical expansion goals.

Sompo International is a provider of commercial and consumer property and casualty (re)insurance.

Looks to focus on corporate insurance in Brazil.

W. Brown’s expertise stretches back to 1948 when Bill Brown entered the aviation underwriting field after his WWII service as naval pilot. 

The addition of Diversified to Sompo International’s existing global AgriSompo platform will create one of the largest crop insurance providers in North America and the world with combined gross written premiums of over $2b in 2019.

Sompo GRS also offers the same level of sophisticated services and coverages to Asian-interest accounts in the U.S. and Mexico.

The move also supports the strong and dynamic growth of Sompo GRS, which has traditionally offered comprehensive multi-line capabilities through a network of retail brokers to companies with operations in the U.S. and Mexico.

The new unit, part of Sompo Global Risk Solutions (GRS), will work through a network of retail brokers.

AgriSompo will partner with ATLAS to initially offer a variety of traditional crop insurance products and will expand into new products and coverages to help address the evolving needs of farming operations in Portugal.