{"id":36280,"date":"2017-03-07T13:30:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T02:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=36280"},"modified":"2017-03-08T07:34:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T20:34:44","slug":"zurich-expands-underwriting-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2017\/03\/07\/zurich-expands-underwriting-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Zurich Expands Underwriting Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich has continued to expand its business units following the acquisition of the Macquarie Life risk business late last year and has appointed three senior executives to its underwriting team.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36322\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/03\/Tina-Beilby-v2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36322\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36322\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/03\/Tina-Beilby-v2.jpg\" alt=\"Zurich Life and Investments Chief Underwriting Officer, Tina Beilby\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zurich Life and Investments Chief Underwriting Officer, Tina Beilby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former Macquarie Life National Underwriting Manager, <strong>Mary Sinclair-Porter<\/strong> has taken on the same role at Zurich and will report through to Zurich Life and Investments Chief Underwriting Officer, <strong>Tina Beilby<\/strong>, who has also appointed three Underwriting Managers across NSW, QLD and VIC\/WA\/SA.<\/p>\n<p>Former Macquarie Life Chief Medical Officer,\u00a0<strong>Dr Matthew Paul<\/strong> and Financial Underwriting &amp; Claims Manager, <strong>Tony Baker<\/strong> have also taken on similar roles with Zurich and will work with the insurer\u2019s Reinsurance Partners and its newly developed Underwriting Centre of Technical Excellence team.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the new appointments, Zurich Underwriting Manager, <strong>Matthew Apps<\/strong> has stepped into the role of National Underwriting Manager, Distribution in which he will be involved in offering underwriting-BDM services to advisers.<\/p>\n<p>Zurich stated that the appointments and merging of the two teams has added 16 additional members to its underwriting team, including those working on its Health Connect Tele-underwriting team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have acquired great underwriting, tele-underwriting and claims expertise and now have a number of key roles working across both claims and underwriting,\u201d Beilby said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith our wider product suite including Zurich Active, Sumo and FutureWise, we\u2019re ensuring our service adds value by leveraging a more diverse underwriting approach and gaining access to additional key reinsurers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich has continued to expand its business units following the acquisition of the Macquarie Life risk business late last year and has appointed three senior executives to its underwriting team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,48,230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-appointments","category-company-news","category-underwriting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}