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Topsail Re names RobLee Womack, Jr as Senior VP of Underwriting

15th June 2023

Cayman islands-based reinsurer Topsail Re has appointed RobLee Womack, Jr. as its new Senior Vice President of Underwriting. With over 35 years of experience in the re/insurance industry, Womack brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to his new role. Womack's career in the re/insurance industry began on the insurance underwriting side, ... Read the full article

Topsail Re names Turgel as Vice President of Underwriting

25th April 2023

Cayman islands-based reinsurer Topsail Re has appointed Daniel Turgel as Vice President of Underwriting. Turgel's experience spans over 13 years and includes work in reinsurance underwriting and program management. His most recent role was as the Vice President of Insurance Program Operations at RVI, the reinsurer noted. Turgel has previously held a ... Read the full article

Topsail Re adds Brook Farlow to its team

1st February 2023

Cayman islands-based reinsurer Topsail Re has appointed Brook Farlow as a Reinsurance Staff Accountant. She joins the firm after a distinguished 24 years of service at Carolina Farmers Mutual Insurance Company. In her most recent position at the firm, she served as Chief Executive Officer and President. However, throughout her tenure at Carolina ... Read the full article

Topsail Re raises an additional $50m for growth

9th February 2022

Topsail Re, a Cayman Islands domiciled reinsurer, has raised an additional $50 million of equity capital from its existing shareholders, as the company eyes further growth. Launched in late 2018 ahead of the January 1st, 2019, reinsurance renewals, Topsail Re currently underwrites more than $500 million of property and casualty ... Read the full article

Topsail Re adds Robin Elder to key VP & Director role

15th June 2021

Topsail Re has announced the appointment of Robin Elder to the role of VP and Director of Reinsurance Finance. Elder is also a member of Topsail Re’s Client Services Team and brings over twenty years’ to the role. For the past five years, she was Director of Service and Operations in Business ... Read the full article

Topsail Re, UFG enter into program management agreement

23rd February 2021

Topsail Re has entered into a program management agreement with UFG Insurance that will see the two firms risk share on certain lines of business. UFG recently announced plans to expand its assumed reinsurance business and Topsail desires to provide additional capacity to its cedants, where appropriate. Effective February 15, Topsail will ... Read the full article

Brian Green joins Topsail Re as General Counsel & Head of Claims

3rd November 2020

Cayman Islands-based reinsurer Topsail Re has announced the addition of Brian Green as General Counsel & Head of Claims. Green joins Topsail Re from Ascot, where he most recently served as General Counsel and Secretary, North America. He spent two years in this New York based role and helped Ascot to launch ... Read the full article

Topsail Re adds Jake Colbert as VP of Underwriting

8th July 2020

Cayman Islands-based Topsail Re has announced the appointment of Jake Colbert as Vice President of Underwriting. Colbert's responsibilities include underwriting, marketing and account management. He has more than ten years of experience in reinsurance underwriting and brokerage operations and most recently was an underwriter at Arch Reinsurance. Before that, he worked at Aon for ... Read the full article

Topsail Re obtains license ahead of January launch

10th December 2018

Topsail Reinsurance SPC, Ltd (Topsail Re), a newly formed reinsurer domiciled in the Cayman Islands, has obtained its operating license ahead of the 1 January 2019 renewals, when the firm is due to begin writing business. Parent company Topsail Holdings, Inc. confirmed that the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority had granted Topsail ... Read the full article

Topsail Re prepares for January 2019 launch

30th October 2018

Topsail Re, a newly formed reinsurer domiciled in the Cayman Islands, is preparing to begin writing business at the 1 January 2019 renewals. Parent company Topsail Holdings said that the vehicle will underwrite business across a number of lines, including auto quota shares, property catastrophe risks, property retrocession, per-risk property business, ... Read the full article