All the headlines from our QBE Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 15 2020 // Everest Insurance announced changes to the Commercial Casualty leadership team. Four underwriters across the country have been appointed leaders for the Northeast, South, Midwest and Southwest regions.Frank Engle has been...
Jun 3 2020 // QBE North America has appointed Thaddeus Woosley as senior vice president, Broker Management & Sales Operations. He is based in Chicago.Woosley most recently served as vice president, strategic advisor, Specialty &...
Jun 2 2020 // QBE North America has promoted Steve Gransbury to head of Specialty Insurance, a new group of existing QBE businesses, and promoted Tara Krauss to head of Accident & Health.The Specialty Insurance unit Gransbury now...
May 20 2020 // Specialty Insurer QBE North America announced the appointment of Becket McNab as chief human resources officer. McNab will be responsible for all North America human resources activities, including driving the...
Apr 15 2020 // QBE Insurance is planning to raise about US$825 million in capital as a result of the economic and investment market uncertainty created by the coronavirus crisis.The company will raise approximately $750 million of equity...
Apr 7 2020 // QBE Insurance Group has appointed Jason Harris as chief executive officer, International, succeeding Richard Pryce who is retiring at the end of this year.The role reports to Pat Regan, group chief executive officer and...
Mar 31 2020 // QBE released its 2019 full year results on Feb. 17, 2020, which included an outlook statement that included combined operating ratio and net investment return targets for the 12 months ended Dec. 31, 2020.However, QBE has...
Mar 12 2020 // QBE North America announced the appointment of Dan Moore as chief operating officer, effective immediately. In this role, he will lead Claims, Technology and Operations and oversee communications and branding. He had been...
Feb 27 2020 // QBE has appointed Stephen Postlewhite as managing director, QBE Re. He will start the new role from April 1, taking over from Jonathan Parry, who will retire in 2021.With more than 20 years’ experience in the...
Feb 18 2020 // QBE Insurance Group announced that Michael (Mike) Wilkins has been elected to succeed W. Marston (Marty) Becker as chairman of the group board.Wilkins will step into the role of group chairman on March 1, 2020, and Becker...
Feb 3 2020 // Specialty insurance wholesaler AmWINS Group said that Matthew Crane will succeed Frank Murphy as chief executive officer of THB Group and president of the International division of AmWINS, effective once Crane’s...
Jan 10 2020 // Australia’s bushfire season has months to run and could easily surpass the most costly fire season, 2009’s Black Saturday fires in Victoria, which had a price tag of an estimated A$4.4 billion (US$3 billion),...
Jan 9 2020 // A long-time Aon executive is signing on with QBE North America as its new president of Specialty & Commercial.Tom Fitzgerald is taking on the new position in February 2020 after being with Aon Risk Solutions for more...
Dec 3 2019 // Specialty insurer Argo Group International Holdings has named Jeff Grange to serve as an executive vice president for U.S. operations. In this role, Grange will lead the following businesses: Argo Casualty, Argo Pro, Argo...
Nov 18 2019 // W. R. Berkley Corp. has appointed Marlo M. Edwards as president of Verus Underwriting Managers. Edwards succeeds Dale H. Pilkington, who is retiring. Edwards joins Verus with 20 years of experience in the property and...
Nov 7 2019 // Seventeen insurers have restricted insurance services to coal projects in the past two years.A dozen insurers have adopted policies to stop all direct insurance coverage to new coal projects – among them are Allianz,...
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...
Sep 3 2019 // QBE North America has introduced a complimentary service, QBE Business Resource Edge, as part of its Employment Practices Liability (EPL) insurance that is intended to help employers navigate harassment, discrimination and...
Aug 15 2019 // QBE Insurance Group has appointed Todd Jones to the role of CEO North America, succeeding Russ Johnston who the company said has decided to seek opportunities outside of QBE.Jones joins QBE from Willis Towers Watson where...
Jul 17 2019 // RiskGenius, which provides natural language tools for improving the quality and accuracy of insurance policies, has completed a Series B financing led by Hudson Structured Capital Management.The company said it has also...