A joint initiative has been launched by Liberty International Underwriters (LIU) and Liberty Syndicates to provide coverage for war and terrorism in the Middle East. The product will be distributed by LIU via its Middle Eastern brokers, with customer service offered by its Dubai International Financial Centre regional office. Liberty Syndicates will provide enhanced reinsurance [...]
Liberty Syndicates has announced that it is entering the agricultural and weather reinsurance market and to that end has hired of a team of specialist underwriters. Operating from the insurer’s Paris office, the new team will underwrite agricultural and weather reinsurance programmes on a worldwide basis including North America, Latin America and Asia. Jean-Christophe Garaix [...]
Nick Metcalf has been newly appointed as Liberty Syndicate Management Limited’s new chief executive. Liberty Syndicates has a capacity of £917m and five specialist business lines, which include London market reinsurance, property and casualty. Metcalf’s previous position was with Arch Insurance Group, where he had been director of European operations since 2004. Metcalf has stated [...]
