Latest Liberty Mutual Headlines
All the headlines from our Liberty Mutual Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Farmers Expands Program, Now Insuring Uber Drivers in 14 States and D.C.
Jan 7 2020 // Farmers Insurance has expanded its relationship with Uber by providing commercial automobile insurance to its ridesharing drivers in 12 additional states and the District of Columbia. In addition to the District of...
Liberty Mutual to Insure Uber Drivers and Passengers in 7 States, Puerto Rico
Jan 2 2020 // Liberty Mutual Insurance will provide coverage for Uber drivers and passengers throughout New England, South Carolina and Puerto Rico as part of the company’s 2020 auto insurance programs, which became effective on...
Liberty Mutual to Limit Coal Underwriting, Investments; Names First Sustainability Officer
Dec 16 2019 // Liberty Mutual Insurance said it will drastically limit future underwriting for and investment in coal risks, an apparent response to environmentalists pushing for greener investment strategies among corporations. To...
Former Ironshore, Lexington CEO Kelley to Retire at Year’s End from Liberty Mutual
Nov 22 2019 // Liberty Mutual Insurance today announced that long-time industry leader Kevin H. Kelley, vice chairman, Global Risk Solutions, will retire at the end of this year. In 2017, Kelley joined Liberty Mutual following the...
Munich Re’s Libman Joins Liberty Mutual’s Shared Economy/New Mobility Team
Nov 21 2019 // Liberty Mutual Insurance has appointed Max Libman as lead underwriting consultant for its national Sharing Economy & New Mobility unit. The dedicated Sharing Economy & New Mobility practice was launched earlier...
People & Places
Nov 4 2019 // National Specialty insurer QBE North America has named Kris Hill as president of Alternative Markets. Hill joined QBE in January 2017 as chief financial officer. Before joining QBE, she served as executive vice president...
Liberty Mutual Completes Acquisition of 3 AmTrust European Businesses
Oct 4 2019 // Liberty Mutual Insurance announced it has completed the acquisition of three European subsidiaries of AmTrust Financial Services: Nationale Borg, Nationale Borg Reinsurance, and AmTrust Insurance Spain. “Completing...
Liberty Mutual Appoints Perez as Chief Underwriting Officer, North America
Sep 11 2019 // Liberty Mutual Insurance has appointed David Perez to the post of chief underwriting officer, North America, for its Global Risk Solutions commercial and specialty lines insurer and reinsurer. In this new role, Perez will...
Liberty Mutual Names Chief Underwriting Officers for Excess Casualty and Public Entities
Aug 22 2019 // Liberty Mutual has appointed Jon Tellekamp as chief underwriting officer for National Insurance – Excess Casualty, and Doug Manwaring as chief underwriting officer of National Insurance – Public Entities and...
Liberty Mutual Surety Taps Schrift to Develop Subcontractor Default Insurance Offering
Aug 20 2019 // Liberty Mutual Surety has appointed Douglas Schrift and charged him with developing the company’s Subcontractor Default Insurance (SDI) offering. SDI is a two-party catastrophic insurance coverage that protects...
Georgia Court: Insurer Can’t Deny Coverage Despite Misinformation on Application
Jul 15 2019 // An insurer that extended its workers’ compensation coverage for 90 days after discovering the employer had violated the terms of its policy could not then deny coverage for a claim on the grounds that those terms had...
Liberty Mutual Completes $240 Million Limestone Re Transaction
Jul 2 2019 // For the fourth time, Liberty Mutual has utilized capital markets’ reinsurance capacity via the Bermuda collateralized reinsurance sidecar, Limestone Re Ltd. The Boston-based insurer said it has completed a new...
Poll: Majority of Americans Say Global Warming is Affecting U.S. Weather
Jun 27 2019 // The majority of Americans say global warming is important to them, and that it’s affecting the weather in the U.S. A national survey by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University...
Georgia Court: Insurer Can’t Deny Coverage Despite Misinformation on Application
Jun 27 2019 // An insurer that extended its workers’ compensation coverage for 90 days after discovering the employer had violated the terms of its policy could not then deny coverage for a claim on the grounds that those terms had...
Liberty Mutual Re Taps Voges from AXA as Senior Marine & Energy Underwriter
Jun 24 2019 // Liberty Mutual Re, part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has appointed Jens Voges as senior underwriter and product leader Marine & Energy within its London Market Risks (LMR) team. The new role was created to...
QBE North America Appoints Hill as President, Alternative Markets
Jun 10 2019 // Specialty insurer QBE North America has named Kris Hill as president, Alternative Markets. Hill has 25 years of experience in insurance operations and financial positions. She joined QBE in January 2017 as chief financial...
New York’s Preferred Mutual Names Sander Executive VP of Insurance Operations
Jun 6 2019 // Preferred Mutual Insurance Company has named Benedikt Sander as executive vice president of Insurance Operations. In this role, Sander will be responsible for driving results for Insurance Operations with a focus on...
South Dakota Judge Sides With Liberty Mutual in Bad Faith Dispute
May 23 2019 // A federal judge in South Dakota has dismissed part of a lawsuit filed by a couple who had to tear down their Sioux Falls house after a long-running dispute with their neighbors. Judge Roberto Lange recently granted Liberty...
Liberty Mutual Reinsurance Launches Operation Using Lloyd’s Mexico Platform
May 23 2019 // Liberty Mutual Reinsurance the reinsurance arm of Liberty Specialty Markets, announced it has launched a reinsurance operation under Lloyd’s registration in Mexico to serve clients in Mexico and Central America. The...
Liberty Mutual Teams with MIT on Artificial Intelligence Research
May 10 2019 // The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Liberty Mutual Insurance announced a $25 million, five-year collaboration to support artificial intelligence (AI) research in computer vision, computer language...
