General Casualty Insurance

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General Casualty Insurance
IndustryInsurance
Founded1925
FateAcquired by QBE Insurance
Headquarters Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
Key people
Peter Christen, president and chief executive officer
ProductsProperty and casualty insurance
Revenue1512.70 M (2004)
Number of employees
2,219 (2004)
Website http://www.generalcasualty.com/

General Casualty Insurance was a super-regional property and casualty insurance provider headquartered in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin as of 2006. It operated as a subsidiary of Winterthur U.S. Holdings. [1]

Winterthur U.S. Holdings, which operated as Winterthur North America, and was also based in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin operated General Casualty Insurance, as well as Bellevue, Washington-based Unigard Insurance. [1]

History

From 1956 to 1990, General Casualty was owned by Reliance Insurance. [2] In 1990, General Casualty was sold to Winterthur, a Swiss Insurance Group. [2] In 1997, Winterthur was sold to Credit Suisse Group. [2]

In 2006, AXA Group acquired Winterthur from Credit Suisse. [3] [4]

In January 2007, QBE Insurance Group, Sydney, Australia, agreed to buy Winterthur U.S. Holdings, General Casualty's parent company, for $1.16 billion. [5]

In 2011, QBE announced that the General Casualty name would be replaced with the QBE name and logo. [6]

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