W. R. Berkley Corporation
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Berkley Accident and Health

Christopher C. Brown

President & Chief Executive Officer

Chris Brown

Christopher C. Brown joined W. R. Berkley Corporation in 2009 as President & Chief Executive Officer of Berkley Accident and Health. He has more than 30 years of insurance industry experience.

Officers

Christopher C. Brown

President & Chief Executive Officer

Don Gasparro

Chief Operating Officer

Thomas Skurat

Assistant Vice President & Actuary

Peter Jonson

Controller

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Berkley Accident and Health, LLC

Berkley Accident and Health, LLC provides an innovative portfolio of accident and health insurance products.

Our Mission

Our mission is to provide our clients with catastrophic risk protection against losses resulting from unexpected accident and health events, and to be recognized as an industry leader in the accident and health business. We are committed to delivering superior value to our clients through a diversified range of products and services that capitalize on our broad market knowledge, underwriting expertise, financial strength, and distinctive competencies.

Company Description

Berkley Accident and Health, formed in 2005, utilizes its entrepreneurial spirit and underwriting expertise to provide insurance products tailored to customers' needs. Our unique technical understanding of the medical marketplace, combined with our medical management capabilities, allows us to manage and monitor claim development to achieve superior risk management results.

The Berkley competitive advantage is exemplified through our ability to quickly identify and respond to changing market conditions. An experienced leadership team has built an entrepreneurial culture around understanding risk and developing creative solutions that respond to the dynamic needs of our customers. Our proactive predisposition to the development of new products and risk transfer alternatives are backed by our superior financial strength and sound contracts that provice peace of mind to our customers.

Our insurance and reinsurance product portfolio is is offered through four business segments:

  • The Stop Loss segment focuses on providing catastrophic medical coverage to employers that self fund their medical plans. We provide coverage for large and mid-size employers including Fortune 500 companies, hospitals, self-funded plan sponsors and government programs. Our insurance solutions include specialized medical risk management in selected niche markets.
  • The Group Captive Division has been offering benefit captive solutions since 2008 and seeks to provide a unique solution to employers with 50 to 400 employees who are looking for alternatives to expensive and inflexible fully-insured medical plans.
  • The Managed Care segment includes HMO reinsurance, managed care excess and provider excess insurance to HMOs, managed care organizations and medical professionals.
  • The Special Risk segment provides a broad array of accident products including K-12 student accident, intercollegiate sports and participant accident coverage for groups such as day care centers, youth groups and recreational sports activities.

How Berkley Accident And Health is Different

Our comprehensive approach to risk management provides our clients with the benefit of our strong analytical capabilities. This technical base allows us to employ predictive modeling, data warehousing, technical analysis and cost containment strategies to control and manage risk. We proactively develop new product ideas that serve the dynamic needs of our customers. Through our superior ability to evaluate risk and strategic opportunities, Berkley Accident and Health maintains a high standard of performance and results.

With our diversified product and service portfolio, we are able to offer claims management services and risk management through a complete product package that includes a wide variety of complementary coverages to all size markets. Our ability to package and customize a portfolio of benefits, from accident to healthcare, combined with our responsiveness and flexibility, allows us to be a market leader in both customer service and innovation.

About W. R. Berkley Corporation

W. R. Berkley Corporation, founded in 1967, is one of the nation’s premier commercial lines property casualty insurance providers. Each of the operating units in the Berkley group participates in a niche market requiring specialized knowledge about a territory or product. Our competitive advantage lies in our long-term strategy of decentralized operations, allowing each of our units to identify and respond quickly and effectively to changing market conditions and local customer needs. This decentralized structure provides financial accountability and incentives to local management and enables us to attract and retain the highest caliber professionals. We have the expertise and resources to utilize our strengths in the present environment, and the flexibility to anticipate, innovate and respond to whatever opportunities and challenges the future may hold.

Contact Information

Berkley Accident and Health is headquartered in Hamilton Square, New Jersey with satellite operations in Marlborough, Massachusetts. The company offers products in all 50 states. Sales offcies are located in Annapolis, MD; Atlanta, GA; Columbus, OH; Denver, CO; Fort Washington, PA; Hamilton Square, NJ; Marlborough, MA; Minneapolis, MN; Chicago, IL; Scottsdale, AZ; San Francisco, CA; and Seattle WA.

Berkley Accident and Health, LLC
2445 Kuser Road, Suite 201
Hamilton Square, NJ 08690
Tel: (609) 584-6990
Fax: (609) 588-5770
www.berkleyah.com
www.benefitscaptives.com

Steve Tingley
Vice President, Employer Stop Loss
Stingley@BerkleyAH.com

Andrew Clayton
Vice President, Group Captive Division (East)
AClayton@BerkleyAH.com

Michael Madden
Vice President, Group Captive Division (West)
MMadden@BerkleyAH.com

Joan Reidy
Director, Managed Care Excess
JReidy@BerkleyAH.com

John Roberts
Director, Special Risk
JRobert@BerkleyAH.com

Financial Highlights

We underwrite on behalf of the following W. R. Berkley Corporation member companies:

  • Berkley Life and Health Insurance Company
  • Berkley Insurance Company
  • StarNet Insurance Company

All of these companies are rated A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best Company. Berkley Insurance Company and Star Net Insurance Company have A+ (Strong) Financial Strength Ratings from Standard & Poor’s.

The financial strength and stability of the Company's markets provide a sound platfrom to manage and insure accident and health catastrophic risk.

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