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People & Places

Nov 4 2019 // 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 of Field...

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 support...

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...

Liberty Mutual Q1 Saw Better Underwriting Results, Strong Specialty Insurance

May 9 2019 // Liberty Mutual Holding Co. Inc. and its subsidiaries reported net income of $671 million for the three months ended March 31, 2019, an increase of $23 million or 3.5% over the same period in 2018.Consolidated net income...

Liberty Mutual to Acquire AmTrust’s Surety, Credit Reinsurance Business

Apr 15 2019 // Liberty Mutual Insurance said it has agreed to acquire the global surety and credit reinsurance operations of property/casualty insurer AmTrust Financial Services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Upon closing, Liberty...

Top 10 Causes of Most Serious Workplace Injuries

Apr 11 2019 // The annual Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index documents the top 10 causes of the most serious workplace injuries – those causing an employee to miss five or more days from work – and ranks them by their direct cost...

Liberty Mutual Names Edem as Chief of Staff for Global Risk Solutions

Apr 9 2019 // Liberty Mutual has appointed Janelle Edem to be chief of staff for its Global Risk Solutions (GRS) commercial and specialty lines (re)insurer that provides traditional insurance, specialty and reinsurance to businesses...

Liberty Mutual Names Proctor as Branch Executive in the Mid-Atlantic Region

Mar 27 2019 // Liberty Mutual has named Kelly B. Proctor as branch executive in the Mid-Atlantic region, serving Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia.In this role, Proctor will partner with key brokers in her territory to provide a...