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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 half...

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...

Jaramillo to Lead Beazley’s Latin America Construction and Engineering Group from Miami

Oct 14 2016 // Beazley, a provider of specialist construction and engineering insurance, has appointed Santiago Jaramillo as construction and engineering focus group leader for Latin America. Jaramillo will work out of the...

Advent Launches Bespoke Products U/W Unit; New Team Joins from Beazley

Sep 23 2016 // Lloyd’s insurer Advent announced the launch of its Bespoke Products underwriting unit, led by Paul Driver and Philip Misztela, and supported by Stuart Cowen. The new team will report to Advent CUO William...