Sarah Javin-Fisher

Property and Specialty (re)insurer IQUW has announced industry executive Kevin Fisher as President. Reporting to Peter Bilsby, IQUW Group CEO, Fisher will bring further (re)insurance strategic client management leadership to accelerate IQUW’s profitable growth trajectory. With over 40 years broking experience, most recently as Chairman of UK and Global Specialities at Guy Carpenter, Fisher brings…

Property and Specialty (re)insurer IQUW has announced it has strengthened its Property team with the appointments of industry veteran John Brown as Lead Underwriter, Property, and Stuart Bell as new Head of Property Claims. With more than 20 years’ experience in the property insurance industry Brown, joins from Beazley where he was Senior Underwriter. Prior…

Property and Specialty (re)insurer IQUW has announced Dan Warburg as its new Head of Reinsurance, London. Based in London, he will report to Steven Tebbutt, Active Underwriter IQUW Syndicate 1856 and Stephen Young, Group Head of IQUW Reinsurance. Dan will be responsible for leading and building the Specialty and Property Reinsurance book in London, cementing…

Property, Commercial and Speciality (re)insurer IQUW has selected RQA Group, leading experts in product risk and crisis management, to be its retained crisis consultants globally for its recently-launched 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…

Property, commercial, and speciality (re)insurer IQUW today celebrates a full year in business, marking rapid growth and achievements, including the rebuild of Lloyd’s syndicate 1856 and merging of Agora Syndicate Holdings, the launch of a new suite of (re)insurance products, development of a new strategic intelligence strategy, underpinned by a wealth of diverse talent. “IQUW…

Property, commercial, and specialty insurer and reinsurer IQUW has today launched a 

Property and Specialty (re)insurer IQUW has today announced the appointment of Helen Thornton as Chief Financial Officer for IQUW Re Bermuda Limited and Group Head of Finance. Thornton joined IQUW from Nephila Capital where she held roles as co-Head of Reinsurance and Chief Operations Officer since 2011, where her principal responsibilities included leading the finance…

Property, Commercial and Speciality (re)insurer IQUW has today announced a 2021 Combined Ratio of 93%, following a year which saw the insurer remediate and repurpose Syndicate 1856 into a more diversified, global specialty, commercial lines and reinsurance business. This is a strong result in the first year of active operation for the expanded business. The…

IQUW has announced that Rene Lamer has joined the firm’s Bermuda operation as Managing Director – Underwriting and Operations. Lamer joins the company to help build out the underwriting and operational capabilities of the new Bermuda platform. He will report to Stephen Young, who recently joined IQUW as Head of Reinsurance and CEO Bermuda. Before…