Specialty excess insurance underwriter focused on environmental and energy risk
Berkley Specialty Excess is a small, newly founded excess insurance underwriter built around complex environmental and energy risks. The tech stack—Excel, VBA, R, Python, SQL, SAS, MATLAB, Power BI, Tableau—is heavily quantitative, reflecting the actuarial and pricing work central to the business. Active hiring is concentrated in underwriting roles paired with finance and ops positions, and projects center on rating algorithms and loss reserve documentation, suggesting the team is scaling core underwriting and pricing infrastructure to handle volume.
Berkley Specialty Excess, founded in 2023 as a subsidiary of Berkley, writes excess and specialty insurance for high-complexity risks in environmental liability, pollution, energy, and contractors segments. The underwriting model relies on experienced actuarial and claims staff to price and manage non-standard exposures. The company operates from Glen Allen, Virginia, with a small team focused on underwriting, actuarial pricing, and finance operations. Current scaling efforts target underwriting capacity and loss reserving methodologies.
Excel, VBA, R, Python, SQL, SAS, MATLAB, Shiny, Power BI, and Tableau. The mix is heavily quantitative, built around actuarial modeling, pricing, and analytics work.
Environmental liability, pollution, contractors pollution liability, site remediation, general liability, energy, and products pollution—all in the excess/specialty insurance market.
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