QBE North America Hires Berkshire Hathaway’s Fortin, Greeley for Financial Lines

QBE North America has appointed Dan Fortin as president and Todd Greeley as chief operating officer for Financial Lines.

Both executives joined QBE NA from Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance.

With the hires, QBE NA said it aims to expand it its Management Liability, Professional Liability and Transactional Liability practices.

Fortin, who has nearly 30 years of insurance industry experience, has held a variety of financial lines senior leadership roles at BHSI and CNA Financial during his career. He also was a managing director for Aon Financial Services Group. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Villanova University and a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Greeley was previously a senior vice president, Executive & Professional Lines, at BHSI. Prior to that, he led the financial lines claim group at CNA Financial for over 10 years. Before joining the insurance industry, Greeley was an attorney in private practice in New York, with a commercial litigation focus representing executives, as well as financial lines insurers. He also served as an assistant district Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office for five years.