MGA Pen Underwriting Forms 2 New Capacity Deals With QBE Worth £300M January 24, 2022 Pen Underwriting announced two new long-term UK capacity deals with QBE in the highly specialist areas of public authority and...
Horton Becomes QBE’s CEO; SiriusPoint’s Gibbons Named Head of QBE Re Bermuda September 2, 2021 Andrew Horton, the former CEO of Beazley, officially became QBE’s new group CEO on Sept. 1 – an appointment that...
People Moves: QBE Hires Swiss Re’s Mejia for LatAm Property U/W; Zurich Names Kasahara Chief Data Officer; Occam’s Green Joins Rokstone to Head Power Generation August 26, 2021 This edition of International People Moves details appointments at QBE International, Zurich Insurance, and MGA Rokstone. A summary of these...
People Moves: Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Hires AIG’s Blattner-Hoyle to Lead Trade Finance; QBE Names AXA XL’s France as Head of Property, Europe August 10, 2021 This edition of International People Moves covers appointments at two insurers: Swiss Re Corporate Solutions and QBE European Operations. A...
Insurers Face Disputes with Their Reinsurers over UK COVID-19 Business Income Claims March 11, 2021 By Carolyn Cohn and Kirstin Ridley Top insurance companies, ordered by Britain’s highest court to pay thousands of small businesses millions of pounds in claims for...
QBE Reports Full-Year 2020 Loss of $1.5 Billion; No Final Dividend Declared February 22, 2021 QBE officially announced a $1.5 billion bottom-line net loss for 2020 late last week, confirming a figure the Australia-based insurance...
UK Supreme Court Rules Businesses Should Be Insured for COVID-19 Claims January 15, 2021 By Kirstin Ridley and Carolyn Cohn Small businesses, from restaurants to nightclubs and wedding planners to beauty parlors, on Friday won the right to insurance payouts...
Insurers Using Counter-Intuitive Arguments to Escape COVID Liabilities: UK Regulator November 18, 2020 By Kirstin Ridley and Carolyn Cohn Insurers are trying to escape liability for pandemic-related business losses with counter-intuitive arguments that go against the essential purpose of...
Insurers Tell UK Supreme Court They Cannot Provide Unlimited Cover During Pandemic November 16, 2020 By Carolyn Cohn and Kirstin Ridley Major insurance companies told the UK Supreme Court on Monday that thousands of small companies battered by the coronavirus pandemic...
QBE Appoints Pryce as Interim Group CEO After Regan’s Forced Exit in September October 23, 2020 QBE Insurance Group announced that Richard Pryce will assume the role of interim group chief executive officer while the search...