A Connecticut-based insurer's international division said it is planning to open an office in Australia headed by the former chief executive of GE Solutions in Asia.
Berkley Insurance Company, a member of Greenwich, Conn.-based W. R. Berkley Corporation, said it plans to open a reinsurance facility in Australia–its first office in the country–to be headed by Grant Robson.
The office, to conduct business under the name Berkley Re Australia, will be headquartered in Sydney. It will focus primarily on underwriting casualty facultative and treaty reinsurance upon receiving regulatory approval.
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