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Protecting Brand Names from Cyber Threats – a Growth Sector

May 22 2014 // Cyber security and cyber threats are growing, both in numbers and in costs. They will certainly continue to increase as they follow the increases in Internet use and the rapid changes in how electronic information is...

Beazley Enhances Worldwide Breach Response Services

Apr 16 2014 // Beazley has enhanced its Beazley Breach Response (BBR) product to include expanded privacy breach response services and broader coverageThe enhancements, which will come standard on all future BBR policies, will also...

Carriers Committed to D&O Segment

Mar 10 2014 // Several turbulent years of increased claims, more regulation and additional oversight of directors and officers have not deterred carriers from the directors and officers (D&O) liability segment. As more carriers beef...

Best Affirms Ratings of Beazley Insurance Company; Outlook Stable

Feb 24 2014 // A.M. Best has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a” of Beazley Insurance Company, Inc. (BICI), based in Farmington, Conn., a subsidiary of Beazley...

Beazley, Hiscox Form D&O Consortium with Capacity up to $50 Million

Jan 28 2014 // Lloyd’s of London insurers Beazley and Hiscox have partnered to offer brokers and clients a D&O consortium through which the syndicates will provide materially higher limits and offer additional options to...

Oracle Loses Bid to Have D&O Insurer Beazley Pay $20M in Claims Over Acquisition

Jan 16 2014 // Oracle Corp. can’t rely on an insurer to pay $20 million to help settle shareholder claims over the software maker’s acquisition of a company controlled by Oracle founder Larry Ellison, a judge...

Best Revises Lloyd’s, China Sub, Society, Syndicates Ratings to Positive

Jul 22 2013 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has revised the outlook to positive from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of...

Vaughan Joins Beazley from Catlin as Deputy Reinsurance Head

Mar 21 2013 // Beazley announced that Mark Vaughan has joined the company as deputy head of its reinsurance division. He moves to Beazley from Catlin, where he was senior class underwriter on the reinsurance team.Vaughan previously...

Beazley Adds Kim to Medical Liability Team in California

Mar 5 2013 // Michelle Kim has joined Beazley and will be located in the Glendale, Calif. office, adding to the company’s miscellaneous medical team. Kim worked for six years as the allied healthcare product head at Hiscox. Kim...

Best Affirms Beazley’s Lloyd’s Syndicates Ratings ; Downgrades Holding Co. ICR

Feb 11 2013 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has affirmed the financial strength ratings (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a+” of Lloyd’s Syndicate 2623,...

Beazley Posts Strong Growth; Pretax 2012 Profits $251.2 Million

Feb 8 2013 // Beazley plc announced strong growth for the year 2012.Highlights of its recently released earnings report include the following: •Profit before income tax of $251.2 million (compared to $62.7 million in 2011) •Return...

Beazley Launches Enhanced Computer Crime Policy

Feb 5 2013 // Beazley plc has launched new computer crime and account takeover coverages for financial institutions. The enhanced computer crime policy is designed for the continually evolving services and applications that financial...

Beazley Launches Environmental Cleanup Costs Insurance

Jan 23 2013 // Beazley plc has expanded its environmental products offering with the launch of an environmental cleanup costs insurance policy that provides coverage for cost overruns for remediation of known conditions at covered...

Beazley Adds Sfikas to Management Liability Team in Chicago

Dec 19 2012 // Pamela Sfikas, an experienced management liability underwriter, has joined Beazley in Chicago. Sfikas will specifically focus on building the EPL, Private Company D&O and Fiduciary books of business in the United...

Latest Sandy-Loss Estimates From Axis Capital, Platinum, Beazley

Dec 18 2012 // Axis Capital Holdings Ltd. said this week its preliminary estimate of the total net financial impact of Sandy is around $300 million — net of tax and estimated recoveries from reinsurance and including estimated...

AmWINS to Offer Network Security Privacy Liability Program for Hospitals

Nov 20 2012 // AmWINS Brokerage of the Carolinas, through its partnership with Premier Insurance Management Services Inc. (PIMS) and Beazley plc, is now offering a data privacy and network security insurance product for hospitals. The...

Beazley to Underwrite Contingency Business in U.S. in 2013

Nov 16 2012 // Beazley, an insurer of event cancellation and other forms of contingency business at Lloyd’s, will begin underwriting contingency business locally in the United States at the beginning of 2013. The focus will be...

US Brokers’ Employees Attend London’s Beazley Broker Academy at Lloyd’s

Sep 17 2012 // A bulletin from Lloyd’s notes that “high potential employees from US broking firms will spend the coming week in London, standing in the shoes of the Lloyd’s underwriter and gaining a detailed...

Beazley Enhances Suite of Data Breach Products for Businesses

Aug 31 2012 // Beazley has unveiled major enhancements to its Beazley Breach Response (BBR) product. Launched over three years ago, BBR includes a separate limit of coverage for breach response services, and Beazley recently announced...

Beazley Forms Data Breach Response Business Unit

Aug 20 2012 // Beazley has established BBR Services, a new business unit dedicated to helping clients that have suffered a data breach manage the consequences.Data breaches involving the theft or loss of personally identifiable customer...