QBE Insurance Group Limited is an Australia-based insurance and reinsurance company. The principal activities of the Company include underwriting general insurance and reinsurance risks, management of Lloyd’s syndicates and investment management. The Company’s segments include North America, International and Australia Pacific. The North America segment writes general insurance, reinsurance, and crop business in the United States. The International segment writes general insurance business in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Canada. This segment also writes general insurance and reinsurance business through Lloyd’s; worldwide reinsurance business through offices in the United Kingdom, United States, Ireland, Bermuda, Dubai, and mainland Europe; and provides personal and commercial insurance covers in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam. The Company’s Australia Pacific segment primarily underwrites general insurance risks throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region.