Casualty is WRB “sweetspot” as eyes on London “discipline”WR Berkley CEO Rob Berkley has described casualty as the group’s “sweetspot” while taking shot at the industry’s habit of misrepresenting short-tail results, on his company’s call with investors yesterday.
(Re)insurers will be 'pulled in' to opioid crisis(Re)insurers will inevitably be drawn in to impending litigation from the ongoing opioid epidemic in the US, according to the CEO of the blue-chip specialty insurance group, WR Berkley.
Premiums up at WR Berkley despite shrinking reinsurance bookUS carrier WR Berkley has reported a slight uptick in gross written premium (GWP) for the quarter, despite the reinsurance segment narrowing by 15 percent in the three months of the year.
WRB dodges heavy losses to deliver Q4 profitUS carrier WR Berkley has reported net earnings per share of $1.21 for the fourth quarter as the company managed to miss the worst of the period’s catastrophe losses.