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Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Insurance, Reinsurance And Pension Funding, Except Compulsory Social Security 65 - Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security
120 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
9 October 2019
Employment effect (start)
9 October 2019
Foreseen end date
31 December 2022
Description
Liberty Insurance, which provides motor and home insurance along with commercial insurance to the business sector, is going to create 120 new jobs in Cavan, over the next three years. The employer is looking for people for administrative, support and management level positions. Liberty Insurance will, to a large extent, carry out appraisal work for motor claims from the US, by making photo estimations. The expenditure is supported by IDA Ireland.
Eurofound (2019), Liberty Insurance, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 98797, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/98797.
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