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Chaucer adds Senior Underwriters to International General Liability team
12th December 2019
Chaucer, the specialty international re/insurance group, has announced the appointments of Thomas Beasley, Senior Class Underwriter, and Rob Neil, Senior Underwriter, to its International General Liability team. In their new roles, Thomas Beasley and Rob Neil will be responsible for growing Chaucer’s International General Liability account, with a focus on building ... Read the full article
QOMPLX, Chaucer launch multi-peril parametric product for SMEs
11th December 2019
Analytics and insurance software provider QOMPLX has partnered with international specialty re/insurance group Chaucer on a multi-peril parametric insurance product aimed at small to medium-sized enterprises. WonderCover will first be made available in the UK and offer protection triggered by specific instances of cyber, IT interruption, and terrorism. This parametric product allows ... Read the full article
Chaucer hires US General Liability underwriter from Allianz
2nd December 2019
Chaucer, the specialty international re/insurance group, has announced the appointment of Colm Sheedy as Class Underwriter to work on its US General Liability account, focused on large wholesale facultative business. Sheedy joins Chaucer from Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty, where he worked on the company’s US liability account. He has nearly a ... Read the full article
Swiss Re’s Nicola Stacey joins Chaucer as CUO
18th November 2019
Specialty insurer and reinsurer Chaucer has appointed Swiss Re Europe's Nicola Stacey as Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) as current joint Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and CUO, John Fowle, consolidates his duties to CEO. In her new role, Stacey will be responsible for both the development and execution of Chaucer's underwriting strategy, ... Read the full article
Chaucer appoints Lesley Watkins as Non-Exec Director
27th September 2019
Chaucer, the international specialty re/insurance group, has announced the appointment of Lesley Watkins to the position of Non-Executive Director. Watkins is currently a non-Executive Director Non-Executive Director of Investec Bank plc and Braemar Shipping Services plc. She has more than 20 years’ experience in financial services, having previously served as a Non-Executive ... Read the full article
Chaucer adds Catherine Soyka to Treaty team in Singapore
6th September 2019
Chaucer, the specialty international re/insurance group, has announced the appointment of Catherine Soyka as Deputy Class Underwriter to its Treaty team base in Singapore. Soyka joins Chaucer from AXA XL, where she has worked for almost a decade across their Sydney and Singapore offices. While at AXA XL, she helped to develop ... Read the full article
Johnny Bøgelund replaces Gero Michel as Head of Chaucer Copenhagen
6th September 2019
Global specialty insurance and reinsurance group, Chaucer has announced the appointment of Johnny Bøgelund as Head of Chaucer Copenhagen. In his new role, Bøgelund will be responsible for managing the firm's European and Scandinavian underwriting portfolios, and will work with teams in Copenhagen, Oslo and London to support the long-term development ... Read the full article
Talbot’s Noufal Manzil appointed Class Underwriter at Chaucer MENA
2nd September 2019
Specialty re/insurance group Chaucer has announced the appointment of Noufal Manzil as Class Underwriter within its property team in Dubai. Chaucer says the addition of Manzil, who joins from Talbot and brings over 20 years’ experience to the role, reaffirms its commitment to establishing a broad marine and non-marine underwriting team ... Read the full article
Gero Michel joins Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions unit to lead UK & EMEA Analytics
2nd September 2019
Gero Michel has joined Aon from Chaucer to lead the re/insurance broker's UK & EMEA Analytics for its Reinsurance Solutions division. In his new role he will report to Eric Paire, Head of Capital Advisory, International, Aon's Reinsurance Solutions business. He will be responsible for devising and driving analytics innovation and strategy ... Read the full article
Chaucer names Head of Underwriting for Dublin business
1st August 2019
Chaucer, the specialty international re/insurance group, has announced the appointment of Jonathan Sutcliffe to the newly created role of Head of Underwriting at Chaucer Insurance Company DAC in Ireland. Sutcliffe will assume a leadership role in the overall direction and management of the business, which trades as Chaucer Dublin. His responsibilities will ... Read the full article
Chaucer recruits A&H Treaty Underwriter from TransRe
13th June 2019
Chaucer, the international specialty re/insurance group, has announced the appointment of Sarfraz Pivano as an Accident & Health (A&H) Treaty Underwriter in its Reinsurance Division. Pivano joins Chaucer from Transatlantic Reinsurance Company (TransRe), where he served as a senior A&H treaty underwriter, having begun his career there as an underwriting assistant ... Read the full article
Chaucer adds China Re’s Zuo Huiqiang as Non-Exec Director
21st March 2019
Specialty international re/insurance group Chaucer has announced the appointment of Zuo Huiqiang as a Non-Executive Director of Chaucer Syndicates Limited, the group’s Lloyd’s managing agency. Zuo is Deputy General Manager of China Re P&C and has overall responsibility for China Re’s international businesses and development worldwide. He also has overall management responsibility ... Read the full article
Chaucer enters marine insurtech partnership with Concirrus
19th March 2019
Chaucer, the specialty international (re)insurance group, has announced a new partnership with insurtech firm Concirrus, which is focused on driving technological change in the marine insurance market. The partnership will enable Chaucer to benefit from the use of Concirrus’ Quest Marine platform, which analyses billions of historical and real-time data to ... Read the full article
China Re completes acquisition of Chaucer
31st December 2018
China Re has successfully completed its previously announced acquisition of the holding company of Chaucer, the London-based and Lloyd's focused specialty re/insurance business of The Hanover. The transaction was valued at around $950 million, made up of a cash consideration of $865 million paid by Hong Kong listed China Re, ... Read the full article
European Commission approves China Re’s acquisition of Chaucer
19th December 2018
The European Commission has approved China Re’s previously announced acquisition of Chaucer, concluding that the deal does not give rise to any competition concerns. The EU governing body explained that the proposed transaction may entail “horizontal overlaps between the companies’ activities,” but would ultimately raise no competition concerns given the ... Read the full article
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