QBE Insurance Group
QBE expands Dubai office capabilities
QBE's Dubai branch is now offering GAP insurance and auto extended warranty on a reinsurance basis to cedants dealing with auto dealers and banks operating in the GCC market.
QBE reveals e-trading and motor underwriting appointments
QBE has this morning unveiled the double appointment of David Greaves as head of e-trading and Fast Flow operations and outgoing Aviva employee Robert Dodd as senior motor underwriter.
The rise of King Artur: interview with Garwyn CEO Artur Niemczewski
After his grandparents escaped the clutches of the Nazis during the Second World War, Artur Niemczewski spent his formative years in communist Poland. The recently appointed Garwyn chief executive reflects on his past as a nuclear scientist and outlines…
Neal becomes group CEO for QBE as O'Halloran retires
QBE Insurance Group has confirmed John Neal will succeed Frank O'Halloran as group chief executive officer when he retires.
QBE's results hit by catastrophes
Australian insurer QBE reported gross written premium in Europe of $4,828m (2010: £4,156m) but a combined ratio up five points to 95.5%.
Top 10 news stories
Find out what the market has been reading about this week with the top 10 news stories from www.insuranceinsight.eu
Roundtable: Climate change - what are the implications?
Environment-related risks will shift significantly over the coming decades, so what can insurers, brokers and loss adjusters do to prepare for the future?
QBE merges divisions under Harries
QBE is merging its casualty international into its professional and financial lines business to form a new division led by financial lines boss David Harries.
QBE merges casualty, professional and financial lines
Business insurance specialist QBE is combining its casualty international and professional and financial lines teams to form a new division, from 27 February 2012.
Spanish Supreme Court ruling puts paid to 14-year dam legal battle
The Supreme Court in Spain has ruled that the 1998 rupture of the Aznalcollar tailings dam near Seville, Spain, was not caused by a fault in the design of the dam.
Methodology: Post Intelligence Benchmarking Finpro
One hundred and fifty-seven commercial brokers completed an online questionnaire addressing the service they got from their financial and professional lines insurers.
Post Intelligence Benchmarking Financial and Professional Lines: Positive experience
The Insurance 360 Financial and Professional Lines report found standards to be high.
RTA Portal extension divides opinion due to lack of clarity and timescales
ABI welcomes changes but industry raises concerns over timescale for implementation.
QBE launches cyber response policy to counter data breaches
QBE has underlined the importance of insurers offering products to protect companies against the threat of data breaches, following the launch of the firm's new cyber response policy.
Roundtable: Turning the focus onto casualty fraud
While the motor sector has tended to grab the headlines, fraud is on the rise in other areas too. Post gathered together a number of industry experts to debate how the profile of this issue in the casualty sector can be raised
Career development: QBE announces Glasgow move
QBE is to move its Glasgow office to larger premises as it seeks to grow its Scottish workforce in 2012.
Career development: LMA names apprenticeship winners
Lloyd’s Market Association has named the winners of its second Lloyd’s Market Academy apprenticeship programme.
Brit appoints hull specialist from QBE
Brit Insurance has appointed industry specialist Bob Clarkson to be its senior marine hull underwriter, working closely with Simon Stonehouse, Anthony Forsyth and John Higham.
Brit expands hull team at Lloyd’s
Brit Insurance’s Lloyd’s syndicate has boosted its marine hull team with the appointment of Bob Clarkson as senior marine hull underwriter.
Market moves: XL rings the changes
XL led the way in the recruitment space this week, as insurers made a number of key appointments. While XL added four new staff members to its ranks, Liberty Mutual, Canopius, CNA Europe and Axa also had a busy seven days. In comparison, the broking…
View from the top: Value added pacts
The industry must band together to push the added value that insurers offer, says Elliot Miller.
Ex DA Constable MD joins syndicate 2525
Whittington Capital Management syndicate 2525 has appointed Stephen Fitzgerald to develop business in UK regions not currently accessed through the Lloyd’s broker channel.
Towergate secures five-year Allianz deal
Allianz will continue to lead Towergate commercial underwriting’s insurer consortium for the next five years, increasing their share from 40% to 70%.
QBE ratings unchanged despite cat losses
AM Best has left the ratings of QBE unchanged despite the company almost halving its forecast profit after tax because of catastrophe losses.