Berkley Asset Protection Underwriting Managers, LLC, was created in 2008, to provide jewelers block, fine art, fidelity/crime, and kidnap and ransom product lines for individuals and companies with high value asset exposures.
About Us

Specific products include: inland marine coverages for fine art risks, including museums, galleries, dealers, corporate collections, private collections and exhibitions; fidelity/crime coverages for commercial financial institutions and public entity risks; and jewelers block coverage for wholesalers, retailers and manufacturers and cash-in transit carriers. Coverages include all-risk broad form policies, and commercial package and other related coverages for our customers.

Berkley Asset Protection writes on behalf of four W.R. Berkley Corporation member companies for domestic risks, utilizing StarNet Insurance Company, Berkley Regional Insurance Company, and Carolina Casualty on an admitted basis, and Gemini Insurance Company on a non-admitted basis. These companies’ ratings are among the highest in the industry.

A.M. Best - A+ (Superior)
Standard and Poor’s - A+ (Strong)
Moody’s A2 (Strong)

Berkley Asset Protection also has the ability to guide our agents to other W.R. Berkley companies when dealing with international and unique risks.

Who We Are

Berkley Asset Protection was established with a strong foundation of specific market knowledge and specialized expertise in underwriting, loss control and claims, in the High Value Asset arena. Our management team brings long-standing industry relationships with clients and brokers who understand our products. We look forward to further developing our relationships for the best benefit to the insured, the broker and our company.

Our Mission

At Berkley Asset Protection we combine underwriting, claims and loss control expertise with personalized service to develop and provide the most creative solutions for customers with high value assets and fidelity/crime exposures. We have created a professional working environment that is focused on providing a stable market for products that meet each client’s unique needs.

How Berkley Asset Protection is Different

In a small and highly specialized area of the market, Berkley Asset Protection has assembled a team of the industry’s leading professionals, well known and highly respected in industry circles. Our underwriting team, with its unique, specialized experience, has the very specific product knowledge in each of our target areas to offer the best solutions to our customers. Our depth of knowledge across our product lines allows us to provide extensive loss control expertise. With its unparalleled expertise in our product lines, our in-house claims department is able to offer the best claims service and most experienced perspective in the market. And, at Berkley Asset Protection, our claims philosophy is based upon knowledge of our products and respect for our customers.

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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. For more information about W. R. Berkley Corporation please visit www.wrberkley.com.


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