The Medical Protection Society (MPS) is to partner with global insurer Everest Insurance and Asta, the leading Lloyd’s third-party managing agency, to establish a Lloyd’s Special Purpose Arrangement (SPA) that will enhance MPS’s ability to indemnify corporate healthcare entities through innovative products and partnerships. In-principle approval has been received from the Lloyd’s Board (formerly the Franchise Board) with the proposed start date being 1 July 2019.

MPS is a mutual organisation established in 1892. It protects the careers, reputations and financial security of over 300,000 doctors, dentists, healthcare professionals and healthcare organisations around the world. It has already established a new managing general agency (MGA) and will establish a SPA, sponsored and managed by Asta. It will offer its medical malpractice insurance under its new Healthcare Protection brand.

Under delegated authority from Everest Syndicate 2786, the MGA will underwrite a medical malpractice account produced directly by MPS from its UK and international networks.

Howard Kew, MPS executive director, said: “We regularly review the products and services we provide to members so we can adapt to meet their needs and those of the market. The launch of Healthcare Protection will give private healthcare organisations the protection they have told us they require. The Lloyd’s market will provide global reach, expertise and market profile in a cost-effective manner. Lloyd’s and Everest are excellent partners and their understanding of our specialist business will underpin this venture.”

Paul Kneafsey, active underwriter, Everest Syndicate, added: “We trust the embedded and unparalleled underwriting approach of MPS, and we are excited to grow our medical malpractice account in partnership with MPS.”

Simon Norton, chief underwriting officer at Asta, said: “Combining the reputation, relationships and underwriting capabilities of MPS with the underwriting expertise and resources of Everest, alongside the advantages that the Lloyd’s platform has to offer, creates a very attractive proposition. This arrangement deploys the best abilities of all three partners to create a lean, accretive, and profitable underwriting entity at Lloyd’s.”

For further information, please contact:

Haggie Partners

Damian Beeley
Tel:  + 44 20 7562 4444
Damian.Beeley@haggie.co.uk

Hannah Stewart
Tel: + 44 20 7562 4444
Hannah.Stewart@haggie.co.uk

Notes for editors

About Asta:

Asta Managing Agency Ltd is the leading third party managing agent at Lloyd’s and is responsible for 10 syndicates and two SPAs with capacity under management in 2019 of more than £1.4bn:

• Syndicate 1729 and SPA 6131 (Dale Underwriting Partners)
• Syndicate 1897 (Skuld)
• Syndicate 2357 (Nephila)
• Syndicate 2525 (DL Dale & Others)
• Syndicate 2689 (Verto)
• Syndicate 2786 (Everest)
• Syndicate 4242 and SPA 6123 (Beat)
• Syndicate 5886 (Blenheim)
• Syndicate 3268 (Agora)
• Syndicate 1980 (Pioneer)

MGAs

Asta Underwriting Management Limited (AUML) brings the skills, experience and capabilities of the leading third party managing agency at Lloyd’s to the MGA market.

MGAs under management:

• Arma Underwriting

About Everest Re Group, Ltd.

Everest Re Group, Ltd. (“Everest”) is a leading global provider of reinsurance and insurance, operating for more than 40 years through subsidiaries in the U.S., Europe, Bermuda and other territories.

Everest offers property, casualty, and specialty products through its various operating affiliates located in key markets around the world.

Everest common stock (NYSE:RE) is a component of the S&P 500 index.

Everest Insurance markets property, casualty, specialty and other lines of admitted and non-admitted direct insurance on behalf of Everest Re Group, Ltd., and its affiliated companies. Additional information about Everest, our people, and our products can be found on our website at www.everestre.com. All issuing companies may not do business in all jurisdictions.