WR Berkley

W. R. Berkley Corporation is a commercial lines property & casualty insurance holding company organized in Delaware and based in Greenwich, Connecticut.

W.R. Berkley Corp. operates as an insurance holding company, which focuses on the property and casualty insurance business. It operates through the following segments: Insurance-Domestic, Insurance-International and Reinsurance-Global. The Insurance-Domestic segment engages in commercial insurance business, including excess and surplus lines and admitted lines, primarily throughout the United States. The Insurance-International segment engages in insurance business primarily in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, South America, Canada, Scandinavia, Asia, and Australia. The Reinsurance-Global segment engages in reinsurance business on a facultative and treaty basis, primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Australia, the Asia-Pacific Region, and South Africa. The company was founded by William R. Berkley in 1967 and is headquartered in Greenwich, CT.