W. R. Berkley Corporation (0HMZ.L)

80.77 +0.13 (+0.16%) As of 06:28PM BST. Market open.

W. R. Berkley Corporation

475 Steamboat Road
Greenwich, CT 06830
United States
203 629 3000
https://www.berkley.com

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Full-time employees: 8,329

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Mr. William Robert Berkley	Executive Chairman of the Board	12.86M	N/A	1945
Mr. William Robert Berkley Jr.	President, CEO & Director	12.66M	N/A	1973
Mr. Richard Mark Baio	Executive VP & CFO	2.27M	N/A	1969
Mr. James Gerald Shiel	Executive Vice President of Investments	2.31M	N/A	1960
Ms. Lucille T. Sgaglione	Executive Vice President	2.3M	N/A	1950
Mr. A. Scott Mansolillo	SVP & Chief Compliance Officer	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Liberatore John Iannarone	Senior VP & General Counsel	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ms. Karen A. Horvath	Vice President of External Financial Communications	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Jonathan M. Levine	VP & Chief Marketing Officer	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ms. Carol Josephine LaPunzina	Senior Vice President of Human Resources	N/A	N/A	1962

Amounts are as of 31 December 2022, and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay includes salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

W. R. Berkley Corporation, an insurance holding company, operates as a commercial lines writers worldwide. It operates in two segments, Insurance and Reinsurance & Monoline Excess. The Insurance segment underwrites commercial insurance business, including excess and surplus lines, admitted lines, and specialty personal lines. This segment also provides accident and health insurance and reinsurance products; insurance for commercial risks; casualty and specialty environmental products; specialized insurance coverages for fine arts and jewelry exposures; excess liability and inland marine coverage for small to medium-sized insureds; and commercial general liability, umbrella, professional liability, directors and officers, commercial property, and surety products, as well as products for technology, and life sciences and travel industries. In addition, this segment offers cyber risk solutions; crime and fidelity insurance products; medical professional coverages; workers' compensation insurance products; general insurance; personal lines insurance solutions, including home, condo/co-op, auto, and collectibles; automobile, law enforcement, public officials and educator's legal, and employment practices liability, as well as incidental medical and property and crime insurance products; at-risk and alternative risk insurance program management services; professional liability; energy and marine risks; and provides insurance products to the Lloyd's marketplace. The Reinsurance & Monoline Excess segment provides treaty and facultative reinsurance solutions; property and casualty reinsurance; facultative reinsurance products include automatic, semi-automatic and individual risk assumed reinsurance; and turnkey products such as cyber, employment practices liability insurance, liquor liability insurance and violent events. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Corporate governance

W. R. Berkley Corporation’s ISS governance QualityScore as of 1 April 2024 is 9. The pillar scores are Audit: 10; Board: 10; Shareholder rights: 9; Compensation: 1.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.