Latest QBE Headlines
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QBE North America Names Attune’s Friesenhahn to Lead Multinational Unit
Apr 7 2017 // QBE North America has appointed Richard Friesenhahn as head of Multinational for North America. Based in New York, Friesenhahn will support the company’s expansion of multinational services and offerings. Friesenhahn...
Liberty Mutual’s Luce, BlueSky’s Hespe Join QBE North America Commercial Operation
Apr 4 2017 // QBE North America announced two executive appointments in the Property & Casualty business. Jamie Luce will lead the Commercial Insurance business as senior vice president. He will oversee all of the QBE North America...
New QBE Program Targets Worker Safety in Transportation Market
Apr 4 2017 // QBE North America, an operating division of global insurer QBE Insurance Group Limited, has formed a strategic program alliance with High Point Underwriters and Midwestern Insurance Alliance to offer a national...
XL Catlin Appoints QBE’s Tuplin as Head of Cyber & TMT, International
Mar 23 2017 // XL Catlin’s insurance operations has appointed James Tuplin as head of Cyber and Technology, Media & Telecoms (TMT), International. In this role, Tuplin is responsible for the underwriting of cyber insurance, as...
QBE Launches Privacy, Network Security Coverage for Businesses
Mar 16 2017 // QBE North America, an operating division of QBE Insurance Group Limited, has launched a new privacy & network security offering as part of its continued specialty insurance expansion. The new Solution for Cyber Risk...
QBE Inland Marine Launches Combined Liability Coverage for Motor Carriers
Feb 22 2017 // QBE North America, an operating division of global insurer QBE Insurance Group Limited, has launched a new policy for motor carriers that combines both motor truck cargo and logistics liability insurance in one...
Why the Insurance Industry Supports and Hires Veterans
Feb 8 2017 // Many property/casualty insurance carriers have focused their charitable efforts on veterans, and they’ve done so for a number of good reasons. One important reason for adopting veterans causes was explained by Glenn...
Allianz Weighs Acquisition of Australia’s QBE: Sources
Jan 30 2017 // Germany’s Allianz has made an informal takeover approach to QBE Insurance, Australia’s biggest insurer, but has not named a price, sources told Reuters on Monday. Shares in QBE closed flat after rising by up to...
People – East
Jan 9 2017 // Chubb, the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company, has appointed Jeffrey Updyke as regional manager for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Regions of the company’s commercial...
QBE’s Pryce Appointed to Lloyd’s Franchise Board, Succeeding Furlonge
Jan 6 2017 // Lloyd’s announced that Richard Pryce, CEO for QBE European Operations, has been appointed by the Council of Lloyd’s as a non-executive director of the Franchise Board, the body which is responsible for the...
QBE North America Appoints Hill as CFO in New York City
Dec 20 2016 // QBE North America, an operating division of global insurer QBE Insurance Group Limited, has appointed Kris L. Hill as chief financial officer. Hill will assume her new role effective January 17, 2017 and also serve as a...
QBE Insurance Group Names Regan CEO, Australia & New Zealand Operations
Dec 19 2016 // QBE Insurance Group Ltd. announced the appointment of Pat Regan as CEO, Australian & New Zealand Operations, effective March 1, 2017. Regan has been acting in this role since August 2016, in addition to his...
QBE North America Names Liberty Mutual’s Hill as Chief Financial Officer
Dec 19 2016 // QBE North America has appointed Kris L. Hill as chief financial officer. Hill will assume her new role effective January 17, 2017, and also serve as a member of the QBE North America Executive Management Board. She will be...
The Charity Issue: Snapshots of Giving
Dec 19 2016 // NetVU (Network of Vertafore Users) During their annual convention in March, more than 50 members of NetVU (the Network of Vertafore Users) devoted a day to serving at the San Antonio Food Bank. Volunteers sorted 12,000...
Supporting the Troops: Industry Gives Back to Those Who Served
Dec 19 2016 // Many property/casualty insurance carriers have focused their charitable efforts on veterans, and they’ve done so for a number of good reasons. One important reason for adopting veterans causes was explained by Glenn...
People – East
Dec 5 2016 // Henderson Brothers Inc., a Pittsburgh, Penn., based independent broker, has hired Braden Brodsky as a senior financial analyst in the employee benefits department. In this role, Brodsky will use his three years of industry...
QBE, SUA Agency to Offer Professional Liability Coverage to Mortgage Specialists
Nov 28 2016 // QBE North America has formed a program underwriting agreement with Stateside Underwriting Agency (SUA) to offer its clients who are title agents, abstractors and escrow agents professional liability insurance for primary...
QBE Expands Commercial Products to Include Cyber, Data Compromise Coverage
Nov 14 2016 // QBE North America, an operating division of global insurer QBE Insurance Group Limited, has launched CyberOne and Data Compromise, an expanded suite of products and services designed to help protect small to medium-sized...
QBE North America Hires Owens in New York
Nov 3 2016 // QBE North America, the New York-headquartered division of QBE Insurance Group Limited, hired Carla Owens as senior vice president of operations for its specialty business group. Based in New York City, Owens will report to...
QBE North America Adds Manufacturing E&O Endorsement to Product Liability Coverage
Sep 23 2016 // QBE North America’s Commercial Insurance business has introduced a manufacturing E&O endorsement to its product liability product offering. The manufacturing E&O endorsement is a claims made coverage form...
