QBE Insurance Group Limited is engaged in underwriting general insurance and reinsurance risks, management of Lloyd's syndicates and investment management. The Company's segments include North American Operations, which writes general insurance and reinsurance business in the United States of America; European Operations, which writes general insurance business, both general insurance and reinsurance business through Lloyd's of London; Australian & New Zealand Operations, which primarily underwrites general insurance risks throughout Australia and New Zealand, providing all lines of insurance for personal and commercial risks; Emerging Markets, which writes general insurance business in North, Central and South America, and provides personal, commercial and specialist general insurance covers throughout the Asia Pacific region; Equator Re, which provides reinsurance protection to related entities, and Corporate & Other.