All the headlines from our QBE Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 5 2015 // QBE North America has welcomed a veteran industry executive to its leadership team.Walter Grote has joined QBE North America as senior vice president, commercial property/casualty, and will be based in the Chicago office....
Sep 23 2015 // QBE Emerging Markets – Asia Pacific announced that its group general manager of Credit & Surety, Richard Wulff, will be relocating to Hong Kong from Singapore, effective January 2016.Wulff is relocating to...
Sep 10 2015 // QBE Asia Pacific announced the appointment of Martin Allan to the role of general manager – Claims, Asia Pacific, with effect from September 8, 2015.In this role, Allan is responsible for managing the claims function and...
Sep 8 2015 // QBE North America said that it has named former Fireman’s Fund executive Kathleen O. Zortman as president, Standard Lines, for property/casualty insurance. Zortman will have responsibility for QBE North...
Aug 31 2015 // QBE Insurance has appointed Mark Lingafelter as managing director of its Asia Pacific region with effect from September 1, 2015.Based in Singapore, Lingafelter will be accountable for the ongoing execution of the QBE Asia...
Aug 24 2015 // QBE North America announced that Brian Griffith will join the organization on August 31 as executive vice president, Field Management and Distribution. The insurer said Griffith will lead the strategy for all distribution...
Aug 11 2015 // QBE announced it has completed of the sale of the group’s workers’ compensation business in Argentina to La Caja Aseguradora de Riesgos de Trabajo ART SA, a company wholly owned by the Werthein Group, which has...
Jul 29 2015 // Sydney, Australia-headquartered QBE has appointed Colin Fagen as group chief strategy officer, in a new role “designed to create a strong platform for growth across the group,” according to Group Chief...
Jul 20 2015 // QBE North America said Eric Pruss, formerly of Chubb and Fireman’s Fund, has joined the organization as senior vice president and head of Property/Casualty Personal Lines. Pruss will lead the business of personal...
Jul 20 2015 // QBE North America announced two new underwriting vice presidents in the company’s Specialty Programs unit – Erin Fry and Bob Remy.Fry joins QBE from XL, where she was vice president and head of professional...
Jul 16 2015 // QBE Insurance Group Ltd., Australia’s second-largest insurer by market value, agreed to sell its North American mortgage and lender services business to National General Holdings Corp. for $90 million.The transaction...
Jun 19 2015 // QBE European Operations has announced plans to grow its casualty business in the MENA region. Laetitia Parfitt joined the team in Dubai this week as senior casualty underwriter. Parfitt will be responsible for developing...
Jun 18 2015 // This is the second of a two-part column on green bonds.The first installment focused on bond sales.Australian carrier QBE Insurance Group Ltd. has invested $190 million Australian Dollars ($148.42 million) in four green...
Jun 16 2015 // A former QBE Insurance Group Ltd. executive and an accomplice embezzled $2.6 million by submitting phony invoices in which the name of the chief financial officer was forged, according to U.S. prosecutors.James J. Shea, a...
Jun 15 2015 // The vast majority of UK businesses (70 percent) are failing to address the importance of embedding a positive risk culture*, according to survey conducted by UK business insurance specialist QBE European Operations, which...
May 4 2015 // London-based QBE European Operations, which is part of QBE Insurance Group, has appointed Thomas Huber to lead the expansion of its European liability portfolio. Huber has joined as head of European liability with...
Apr 6 2015 // London-based QBE European Operations, which is part of QBE Insurance Group, has appointed Nick Menear as director of underwriting operations, effective April 1. In this new role, Menear is responsible for fostering...
Feb 24 2015 // QBE Insurance Group Ltd., Australia’s second-largest insurer by market value, climbed the most in four years in Sydney stock trading as an improving North American business and lower provisions helped it return to...
Feb 6 2015 // QBE North America’s has expanded its specialty lines offerings with the launch of a new Transactional Liability Practice.The Transactional Liability Practice, led by Dennis Kearns, QBE senior vice president &...
Jan 28 2015 // QBE European Operations, the group’s business insurance specialist, announced the appointment of Tom Johnson as Surety Underwriter within QBE’s Trade Credit and Surety department. He will take up his role in...