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IQUW appoints Sam Waltier to Professional Lines team

25th October 2022

IQUW, a property and specialty re/insurer, has announced the strengthening of its Professional Lines team with the appointment of Sam Waltier as Underwriter. In his new role Waltier will be reporting to ristram Prior, Senior Underwriter, Financial Institutions/Professional Lines. Prior to joining IQUW, Waltier served as a Professional Lines Underwriterat Volante. Before ... Read the full article

IQUW hires Kevin Fisher as President

11th October 2022

Property and specialty re/insurer IQUW has appointed Kevin Fisher as President, reporting to Peter Bilsby, IQUW Group CEO. As President, Fisher will bring further re/insurance strategic client management leadership to accelerate IQUW’s profitable growth trajectory. Overall, Fisher rings over 40 years of broking experience towards the role. In his most recent role ... Read the full article

IQUW strengthens Property team with two new appointments

12th September 2022

Property and Specialty re/insurer IQUW has announced the strengthening of its Property team with the appointments of John Brown as Lead Underwriter, and Stuart Bell as new Head of Property Claims. Brown joins from Beazley, where he was Senior Underwriter and holds more than 20 years of experience in the property ... Read the full article

IQUW adds Warburg as Head Reinsurance, London. Lamer named Head, Reinsurance Bermuda

11th September 2022

IQUW, the property, commercial and speciality re/insurer, has hired Dan Warburg as its new Head of Reinsurance, London. The company has also promoted Rene Lamer to Head of Reinsurance, Bermuda. Warburg was most recently at Lancashire’s Syndicate 2010, where he was a Reinsurance Underwriter. With over 20 years' experience in reinsurance, he had ... Read the full article

IQUW announces appointment of RQA as crisis consultants

6th July 2022

IQUW, the property, commercial and speciality reinsurer, has selected RQA Group to be its retained crisis consultants globally for its Specialty Product Recall cover. RQA Group will provide 24/7 incident support and pre-incident risk management services to IQUW’s product recall policyholders. RQA will also provide risk engineering services and ... Read the full article

IQUW launches new crisis management insurance class

15th June 2022

IQUW, the property, commercial and specialty re/insurer has launched a new crisis management insurance class to help businesses anticipate, prevent, respond to, and recover from a variety of risks. The re/insurer has also confirmed that the new global crisis management portfolio will be led by Jon Atkinson, an experienced senior specialty ... Read the full article

IQUW appoints Thornton as CFO of Bermuda unit & Group Head of Finance

8th June 2022

Property, commercial and specialty re/insurer IQUW has announced the appointment of Helen Thornton who joins the company as Chief Financial Officer for IQUW Re Bermuda Limited and Group Head of Finance. She joins IQUW from investment manager, Nephila Capital, where she held roles as co-Head of Reinsurance and Chief Operations Officer ... Read the full article

Cenata and IQUW partner on reinsurance management solution

5th April 2022

Insurtech software provider Cenata has partnered with Property, Commercial and Specialty re/insurer, IQUW, enabling the Lloyd’s syndicate to use Cenata’s outwards reinsurance management solution, Cenata SURE, a full cycle outwards reinsurance management solution. The partnership will provide IQUW with the capability to process real-time premium and claims data from multiple inwards ... Read the full article

IQUW appoints new active underwriter

8th March 2022

IQUW has appointed Steven Tebbutt as active underwriter for syndicate 1856. Tebbutt’s appointment will see a move for David Message who has been IQUW’s interim Active Underwriter since the acquisition of Arcus 1856 in 2020. Message will become IQUW’s Energy Lead Underwriter with immediate effect. David Morris, group CUO of IQUW, said: ... Read the full article

IQUW appoints Rene Lamer to Bermuda-based MD role

9th December 2021

IQUW has announced he appointment of Rene Lamer to the firm’s Bermuda office as Managing Director – Underwriting and Operations. He joins the company to help build out the underwriting and operational capabilities of the region's new platform. Lamer reports to Stephen Young, who recently joined as Head of Reinsurance and CEO Bermuda.Read the full article

IQUW launches Aviation portfolio led by Simon Herring

2nd December 2021

Property, Commercial and Speciality re/insurer IQUW has launched a new Aviation portfolio, which will be led by Lead Aviation Underwriter, Simon Herring. The new portfolio launches with immediate effect following approval form Lloyd’s and will comprise of a Hull and Liability account for second and third tier airlines and a general ... Read the full article

IQUW completes takeover of Agora

29th October 2021

IQUW, the property, commercial and speciality insurer and reinsurer, has completed its previously announced acquisition of Agora Syndicate Holdings Ltd and its subsidiaries. We wrote on October 21st that IQUW intended to purchase Agora and its subsidiaries, the Group responsible for providing underwriting services to Agora, Lloyd’s Syndicate 3268. The acquisition, ... Read the full article

IQUW in proposed acquisition of Agora Holdings

21st October 2021

Property, commercial and speciality insurer and reinsurer, IQUW, has revealed plans to acquire Agora Holdings and combine its business with IQUW's existing Property portfolios. IQUW intends to acquire Agora and its subsidiaries, the Group responsible for providing underwriting services to Agora, Lloyd's Syndicate 3268. The company reports that discussions to close the ... Read the full article

IQUW names Catherine Farnworth as Group CRO

8th October 2021

Property, Commercial and Speciality re/insurer IQUW has appointed Catherine Farnworth as Group Chief Risk Officer. Having joined PWC as a Reserving and Capital Actuary, working closely with the Risk function, Farnworth became PWCs Actuarial Lead within the Risk and Regulatory consulting practice in Bermuda. She then moved to to MS Frontier as ... Read the full article

IQUW to inform pricing with Temblor’s real-time seismic risk data

4th October 2021

Property, Commercial and Speciality re/insurer IQUW has entered a deal with catastrophe modeller Temblor to leverage its real-time seismic risk data in future pricing decision-making . The California-based modeller’s platform is continuous with no borders or boundaries, providing IQUW with a single baseline to assess any risk. Furthermore, Temblor is described as ... Read the full article