Latest Berkley Headlines
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Nov 20 2017 // S.S. Nesbitt & Co. Inc., a Southeastern insurance agency and division of EBSCO Industries Inc. (EBSCO), has appointed insurance veteran Paul Barber as president. Barber comes to S.S. Nesbitt after having spent 25 years...
Berkley Regional Specialty to Rebrand as Berkley Aspire
Oct 17 2017 // Excess and surplus lines insurer Berkley Regional Specialty is changing its name to Berkley Aspire effective January 1, 2018. Berkley Aspire writes general liability, property, umbrella and inland marine, and has plans to...
W. R. Berkley Corp. to Invest in Iowa’s Global Insurance Accelerator, Join Board
Oct 4 2017 // The Global Insurance Accelerator (GIA), based in Des Moines, Iowa, announced that W. R. Berkley Corp. (W. R. Berkley), will join the GIA board of directors through a commitment to be an investor. Founded in 1967 and based...
Berkley FinSecure Taps Mynatt as Southeast Territory Director
Sep 22 2017 // Berkley FinSecure, a Berkley Company, has added Stephen Scott Mynatt as Southeast territory director. In his role, Mynatt will focus on promoting Berkley FinSecure to financial institutions through agents and brokers in...
Berkley Program Specialists Hires Greville as VP, Business Development
Aug 28 2017 // Naperville, Ill.-based Berkley Program Specialists has appointed Michael Greville as vice president and business development officer. Greville will oversee the new business strategy for the organization. He is responsible...
People – East
Jul 24 2017 // Penn Community Bank, a Bucks County, Penn.-based independent, mutual financial organization, has hired three professionals to its administrative, lending and insurance teams. Peter R. Palumbo joins Penn Community Bank as a...
Ironshore Taps Berkley Re Property Treaty Execs for Pembroke’s Patria Re Portfolio
Jul 18 2017 // Ironshore International’s Pembroke Managing Agency Ltd. has appointed two treaty property leaders to join the Patria Re underwriting team. Nicolas Benardout has been appointed divisional director while Jack Bunting...
Connecticut’s W.R. Berkley Corporation Sells Real Estate Investment
Jul 10 2017 // W. R. Berkley Corporation has sold its real estate investment at 1101 New York Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. The company expects to report a realized pre-tax gain of approximately $120 million on the sale in the third...
People
Jul 10 2017 // Alan Jay Kaufman, chairman, president and CEO of Detroit/Farmington Hills, Michigan-based H.W. Kaufman Financial Group, has joined the School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science board of overseers at the...
Billings Named VP, Predictive Analytics at Midwest Employers Casualty
Jun 16 2017 // Midwest Employers Casualty has promoted Brian Billings to vice president of Predictive Analytics. As the Midwest Employers Casualty strategy evolved from data acquisition to leveraging data assets, Billings led the effort...
New York’s Berkley Alliance Managers Hires Andersen
Jun 9 2017 // Berkley Alliance Managers, an Albany, N.Y.-based Berkley Company, has named Anthony Andersen as senior vice president and professional liability claims manager. In this role, he will be responsible for providing managerial...
W.R. Berkley Environmental and Entertainment/Sports Split to Run as Independent Units
Jun 8 2017 // W. R. Berkley Corp. has announced the formation of two independent operating units, Berkley Entertainment & Sports and Berkley Environmental. These units, which previously comprised Berkley Specialty Underwriting...
California’s Enforcement against W.R. Berkley Ends in $12M Settlement
May 23 2017 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones today announced that the enforcement action taken against W.R. Berkley Corp. entities and operating units has resulted in a $12 million settlement. Admiral Insurance Co.,...
U.S. Risk Underwriters Names Berkley Program’s Carter as President
Feb 7 2017 // U.S. Risk, a global property/casualty wholesaler and managing general agency based in Dallas,, has named Wayne H. Carter, III as president of U.S. Risk Underwriters Inc., its programs group. Carter will assume senior level...
Kallo to Succeed McAuliffe as President of Berkley Regional Specialty
Dec 9 2016 // W.R. Berkley Corp. has named Miklos F. Kallo as president of Berkley Regional Specialty. He succeeds Paul S. McAuliffe, who will retire at the end of the year after 15 years of service with W. R. Berkley Corp. The...
Berkley to Launch High Net Worth Personal Lines Brand ‘Berkley One’
Dec 6 2016 // W.R. Berkley Corporation has launched a new high net worth personal lines brand, Berkley One. Set to launch its products in the latter half of 2017, Berkley One will offer specialty personal insurance coverages to...
W. R. Berkley Forms Cyber Risk Unit with Chubb’s Vispoli at Helm
Nov 21 2016 // W. R. Berkley Corp. announced the formation of Berkley Cyber Risk Solutions. The new organization will offer specialty commercial insurance coverages on a worldwide basis to clients of all sizes on behalf of W. R. Berkley...
Berkley Programs, SPS Launch Inland Marine Program for Southeast Lumber Firms
Nov 16 2016 // Berkley Program Specialists and Specialty Program Solutions (SPS) have created a new inland marine program for mobile equipment and machinery used by logging, lumbering and construction companies located in the...
Berkley Re Direct’s Douglas Expands Responsibilities to Berkley Program Specialists
Sep 1 2016 // W. R. Berkley Corp. said that Gregory A. Douglas, president of Berkley Re Direct, has assumed the additional responsibility of president of Berkley Program Specialists. Douglas joined W. R. Berkley Corp. as executive vice...
Key Risk Forms National Division Focused on Longshoreman & Harbor Workers Act
Aug 8 2016 // Key Risk, a W. R. Berkley Company providing workers compensation insurance products and services for employers throughout the eastern United States, has formed a new division focused on providing workers compensation and...
