Clients

Our client base is broadly diversified by type, by size and by geography. We are leaders in many of the markets in which we operate, insuring in 2008:

• A third of the Am Law 200 list of the top law firms in the United States
• More than half of the top 50 US design firms as ranked by Engineering News-Record
• More than a third of the world’s top 200 oil and gas companies
• Two thirds of the top 25 global software and software services companies as ranked by Software Magazine
• Half of the UK’s jewellers’ block business
• Four of the top 10 ‘Honor Roll’ US hospitals as listed by US News and World Report (2009 listing) and three of the top ten pediatric hospitals

We began to establish a local presence in the US market in 2004 and since then have also built a strong business among smaller firms that would not traditionally have insured at Lloyd’s.  In 2008, Beazley’s local US underwriters wrote $269.1 million in gross premiums, principally for smaller clients.