- CEO
- Adrian Peter Cox
- Full Time Employees
- 2,419
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Insurance - Property & Casualty
- Address
- 22 Bishopsgate London United Kingdom EC2N 4BQ
- IPO Date
- Feb 26, 2010
- Business
- Beazley plc is a British holding company of specialist insurance businesses that underwrites a diverse portfolio of insurance and reinsurance products worldwide. Founded in 1986 and headquartered at 22 Bishopsgate in London, England, the company operates through five core divisions—Cyber Risks; MAP Risks, including marine, aviation, and political risks; Property Risks; Specialty Risks; and Digital—serving clients across Europe, North America, Asia, Latin America, and other regions via seven Lloyd's syndicates and additional platforms. Its main products and services encompass professional indemnity such as architects and engineers errors and omissions, miscellaneous professional liability, and lawyers professional liability; management and executive risk offerings including directors and officers liability for public and private companies, employment practices liability, fiduciary liability, crime and fidelity, mergers and acquisitions coverage, and sexual misconduct liability; cyber insurance through Full Spectrum Cyber solutions for small, mid-sized, and large businesses with breach response services; healthcare and life sciences products like hospital professional liability, miscellaneous medical liability, BioSecure, NutraGuard, and Virtual Care; property coverage including North American commercial property, delegated property, high value homeowners, and package business; environmental liability via pollution liability for contractors and sites, and BeazleyOne Environmental; contingency and event products such as event cancellation, prize indemnity, weather, non-appearance, and hybrid event protection; media and entertainment liability covering film production, TV errors and omissions, music liability, and MediaTech technology errors and omissions; product recall for manufacturing risks; marine, aviation, political risks, accident and life, reinsurance, and life sciences specialty lines including WellTech. In recent developments, Beazley upgrades its 2025 undiscounted combined ratio guidance to the low 80s amid disciplined underwriting and flat to low single-digit insurance written premium growth; it plans to deploy $500m in capital to establish a new Bermuda platform supporting expansion into the alternative risk transfer market from 2026; the company expands its renewables team with new underwriters in Europe and co-hosts initiatives on fusion energy insurance; and it continues share buyback programs in 2024 and 2025 while reporting strong first-half 2025 profit before tax of $502.5m.