Markel Southwest Underwriters, Inc., an underwriting manager for the Evanston Insurance Company, was founded in 2000 after Markel purchased the renewal rights to a book of property and casualty business formerly produced by Acceptance Insurance Company's Scottsdale operations. We provide our contracted producers with the bundle of services they need to write excess and surplus lines specialty insurance products efficiently and profitably. Whether it's underwriting expertise, marketing assistance, technological services or just a friendly face, we're here to help you find the insurance coverage you need! We want to be your market of choice.

Our Products
Casualty

• Specializing in accounts that are small to medium size, but will entertain larger risks on a submit basis
• Capacity up to $5,000,000/$5,000,000 limits
• Top classes include:
  • Apartments
  • Clubs and Halls
  • Contractors
  • Distributors
  • Entertainment and Special Events
  • Health or Excersize Clubs
  • Homeowner Associations
  • Hotel and Motels
  • Lessor's Risk
  • Mobile Home Parks
  • Owners and Contractor's Protective (OCP)
  • Special Events
  • Vacant Buildings
• Brokerage casualty is available for those unique risks that fall outside of a contracted producer's normal binding authority, ranging from multi-story building to national consumer goods distributors.

Property

• Covering a broad scope of commercial property exposures through contract, brokerage and inland marine units.
• Capacity up to $7 million, including access to facultative reinsurance markets.
• Top classes include:
  • Apartments
  • Builder's Risk
  • Churches & Synagogues
  • Clubs - Civic & Social
  • Condominiums and Townhomes
  • Daycares and Pre-schools
  • Light Manufacturing
  • Mercantile/Retail Establishments
  • Mobile Home Parks
  • Motels, Hotels, Inns, and Bed & Breakfasts
  • Nursing and Convalescent Homes
  • Offices & Banks
  • Recreational Facilities
  • Strip Malls
  • Vacant & Renovations

Our Expertise

The Markel Southwest Underwriting team is a leader in providing superior insurance products and services. Our underwriters have a high degree of technical expertise and have been together many years, boasting on average, more than 20 years experience. We focus on flexibility and creativity in customizing coverages and endorsements to create affordable alternatives for unusual classes of business. We have also assembled an outstanding network of Managing General Agents, our contracted producers, and equipped them with the bundle of services they need to provide fast answers to an insured's questions, and they can quote and bind risks on our behalf in many classes.

When you place business with Markel Southwest Underwriters, Inc., you are doing so with a responsive, reliable and relationship-oriented company. As part of Markel Corporation, we are big enough to have the financial strength and stability of one of the largest excess and surplus lines insurance companies, yet small enough to be up-close and personal.