Latest Beazley Headlines
All the headlines from our Beazley Topic Page, ordered by recency.
High-Profile Cyber Attacks Drive Growth of Cyber Crime Insurance
May 10 2017 // For companies and organizations, an attack by hackers can inflict financial losses, corporate embarrassment and legal action. For insurers jumping into the brave new world of cyber crime insurance, it’s free...
Beazley Offers ‘Seamless’ Financial Lines Cover for Crime, PI & Data Breaches
May 8 2017 // Beazley has unveiled two sets of financial lines’ products for organizations domiciled outside the United States. One is designed for the specific needs of financial institutions and the other provides comprehensive...
Beazley Taps HCC Global’s Segovia to Lead Financial Lines on Continent
May 5 2017 // Specialist insurer Beazley has appointed Lorena Segovia to the newly created role of financial lines regional manager for continental Europe. Based in the company’s new Barcelona office, Segovia will be responsible...
Munich Re, Beazley Partner to Provide Enhanced Cover for Large Cyber Risks
Apr 20 2017 // Building on their existing collaboration, Beazley and Munich Re’s Corporate Insurance Partner announced the creation of “Vector,” a partnership that aims “to bring innovation and capacity to the...
Beazley Joins EbixExchange Accounting Platform
Apr 11 2017 // Ebix Europe, the electronic messaging communications specialists for the global re/insurance market, announced that insurer Beazley is the latest carrier to join its EbixExchange accounting platform. Using ACORD standards,...
Beazley Forms ‘Anything Lineslip’ for Hard-To-Place Professional Liability Risks
Apr 6 2017 // Beazley has launched the new Anything Lineslip in London offering terms for all U.S. management, professional, cyber and healthcare liability risks. The Anything Lineslip is led by Beazley, supported by a number of other...
AXIS Insurance Taps Beazley’s Brown to Lead London Market MGA Growth
Feb 22 2017 // AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. announced that Julian Brown has joined AXIS Insurance as vice president and underwriter, responsible for leading growth initiatives and product development for the company’s London market...
Beazley Taps Markel’s Tewfik as Underwriter for UK Tech & Data Breach Team
Feb 17 2017 // Beazley, a specialist in cyber and data breach response insurance, has appointed Michael Tewfik as a technology, media and business services underwriter focused on addressing the data breach and cyber security risks of...
Beazley Buys Canadian Specialty MGA, Creechurch Underwriters
Feb 6 2017 // Beazley is expanding its presence in Canada with the acquisition of the specialist managing general agent, Creechurch Underwriters. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Since its founding in 1996,...
Ransomware Attacks Quadrupled in 2016; Expected to Double in 2017: Beazley
Feb 2 2017 // Specialty insurer Beazley, which offers data breach response insurance, said its specialized breach response unit saw ransomware attacks quadruple in 2016 and the insurer projects they will double again in 2017. Nearly...
Beazley Adds Life Sciences Underwriter Amis in California
Jan 27 2017 // Beazley has hired life sciences underwriter Marc Amis in its San Francisco, Calif. office. Amis comes from Chubb, where he was a senior life sciences underwriter for the Western region. He was previously a regional...
Beazley Taps AIG’s Tigleanu as Data Breach & Information Security U/W
Jan 24 2017 // Beazley, a specialist in data breach response insurance, has appointed Monica Tigleanu as an underwriter focused on data breach and information security coverage for US companies out of its London headquarters. Beazley has...
Beazley Joins Markel Livestock Consortium as 5th Member
Jan 17 2017 // Markel International, the London-based specialist insurer that leads the Lloyd’s livestock consortium, has extended the consortium’s aggregate capacity by signing up Beazley as a fifth member. With co-founders...
Beazley Launches Pleasure Craft Cover on E-Trading Platform
Jan 13 2017 // Beazley, a specialist marine insurer, announced that its custom pleasure craft insurance is available to quote and bind via the myBeazley online risk platform. Beazley pleasure craft policies cover a wide range of vessels,...
Beazley, VALE Partner on Environmental Coverage for Small, Mid-Sized Firms
Jan 9 2017 // Beazley has partnered with managing general agency VALE Insurance Partners to offer its environmental cover to US-domiciled firms with revenues of up to $15 million. VALE will offer the full suite of Beazley environmental...
Beazley Adds Miami-Based Vieira to Specialty Surety Treaty Team
Nov 16 2016 // Beazley, a provider of specialist reinsurance, has added Stephan Vieira as a reinsurance underwriter in its Specialty Surety Treaty unit, providing treaty and facultative reinsurance for surety and ancillary...
Markel International Taps Beazley’s Maher for U.S. Cyber Market in London
Nov 8 2016 // Specialist insurer Markel International has appointed Andrew Maher as senior underwriter, emerging risks, within its specialty and financial lines division. Maher’s focus will be on further development and expansion...
People – Southeast
Nov 7 2016 // Brightway, Riverside has added Adam Plante to its Jacksonville, Fla., location. Plante has experience in contracts and sales and earned his law degree from State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law and a...
Lloyd’s Innovation Awards Go to Aon, Beazley, Cromar, Hiscox, Tokio Marine Kiln
Nov 3 2016 // Lloyd’s of London recently announced the winners of its 2016 Innovation Awards. Beazley, Cromar, Hiscox and Tokio Marine Kiln each picked up awards for innovative products or new ways of working. Aon won most...
Ransomware Attacks Are Soaring, Says Beazley in Data Breach Report
Oct 26 2016 // Ransomware attacks against businesses will be four times higher in 2016 than last year, with a growing number of ransom-seeking hackers demanding bitcoin rather than money, according to a report by specialty insurer...
