Is Beazley Legit? Licensing, Carriers and Reliability

Beazley plc publishes the group site, while US terms identify Beazley USA Services, Inc. and related insurance entities. Beazley's ratings table lists Beazley Insurance Company, Inc. and Beazley Excess and Surplus Insurance, Inc. as rated US entities; product and state issuer scope remains specific to the policy.^1,2,5

The US terms of use settle the entity list: the web services are owned and operated by Beazley Insurance Company, Inc., Beazley USA Services, Inc., Beazley Excess and Surplus Insurance, Inc. and Beazley America Insurance Company, Inc., all four with a Connecticut principal place of business and Connecticut domicile, and only Beazley USA Services, Inc. carries a California insurance licence number in that table. The group annual report names Beazley Excess and Surplus Insurance, Inc. and Beazley Insurance Company, Inc. as Beazley's primary US carriers and subsidiaries of the US holding company, Beazley Holdings, Inc.^2,4

The US terms disclose California license 0G55497 for Beazley USA Services, Inc. The number is recorded as company-reported because current California authority was not independently established, and no national license list was established in the reviewed sources.^2,6

Wisconsin regulator guidance identifies the relevant business-entity and company lookup paths; current Beazley authority was not independently established there.⁷

State records retrieved on 22 September 2026 establish current authority for all three US insurers and for the services entity, and show that the footing differs by state. Beazley Insurance Company, Inc. (NAIC 37540) is active in Georgia since 1980, Texas since 1981, Pennsylvania since 1983 and Colorado since 1995; Beazley America Insurance Company, Inc. (16510) in all four since 2020. Beazley Excess and Surplus Insurance, Inc. (17520) is recorded as a surplus-lines company in Pennsylvania and Colorado but as an accredited reinsurer in Texas, and returned no Georgia record. Beazley USA Services, Inc., NPN 7896601, holds an active Texas General Lines Agency licence 1635027, Surplus Lines Agency licence 1635030 and Property & Casualty Adjuster licence 1981226. These are four states out of fifty-one and no product is mapped to an entity by them.^8,9

Beazley's ratings page lists an A (Excellent) AM Best financial-strength rating and Class XV financial-size category for Beazley Insurance Company, Inc. and Beazley Excess and Surplus Insurance, Inc.; it lists BESI with a Fitch financial-strength rating of A+ and issuer-default rating of A. These ratings are entity-specific disclosures but do not establish the issuer of every US product.⁵

AM Best's own records, captured on 23 September 2026, give the current status for each of the three US insurers. Beazley Insurance Company, Inc. (AMB 011442, NAIC 37540), Beazley America Insurance Company, Inc. (AMB 020651, NAIC 16510) and Beazley Excess and Surplus Insurance, Inc. (AMB 021670, NAIC 17520) each hold a Financial Strength Rating of A u (Excellent) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of a+ u (Excellent). All six ratings are Under Review — Positive implications, effective 3 March 2026, with affiliation code g (Group), and AM Best places all three insurers in the Beazley plc rating unit (AMB 046515). Financial Size Category XV is shown for Beazley Insurance Company, Inc.; none was captured for the other two. Beazley's own ratings page still describes the AM Best outlook as stable, so the rating agency's records are used for current status. These are opinions of each insurer's financial strength, not statutory figures, and they do not show which insurer issues a US product.^10,11,12,5

Beazley plc's 2025 annual report reports an estimated group Solvency II coverage ratio of 281% at December 31, 2025. That group measure and the audited group accounts do not equal statutory capital or surplus for Beazley Insurance Company, Inc. or Beazley Excess and Surplus Insurance, Inc.⁴

The group's own capital disclosure runs across two periods: estimated Solvency II coverage of 281% at 31 December 2025 against 264% a year earlier, on an internal model approved by the Central Bank of Ireland, with group profit before tax of $1,146.5m against $1,423.5m in 2024. Beazley states that this capitalisation is what secures the AM Best and Fitch ratings for its named US and Irish carriers. All of that is group-level and reported by Beazley: it is not statutory capital or surplus for Beazley Insurance Company, Inc. or Beazley Excess and Surplus Insurance, Inc., and no US statutory annual statement for either was obtained. What is independently established for the US carriers is authorisation, not capital.^4,8

US specialty pages describe coverage and placement paths. The named policy, not a product page, identifies the insurer. The reviewed sources do not disclose a complete product-by-state issuer map, capacity shares or reinsurance terms.^1,2

Beazley's evidenced US risk-bearing structure is entity-level, not programme-level. Two admitted carriers and one surplus-lines carrier are authorised in the verified states, with Beazley Excess and Surplus Insurance additionally recorded as an accredited reinsurer in Texas and a non-admitted reinsurer in Colorado. Nothing in the reviewed material assigns a product such as MediaTech or any other US small-business programme to a particular one of those carriers, in a particular state, and no reinsurance, fronting or capacity terms are disclosed for any programme. The Lloyd's syndicate ratings on the ratings page belong to syndicates 623, 2623, 3622 and 3623 and are not evidence that a US policy is written on syndicate paper.^8,5,1

Beazley directs policyholders to submit a notice of loss and provides US claims contacts. This establishes a notice route; the policy and applicable claims administrator still determine the specific claims obligations and process.³

Responsibility for claims is traceable one step and no further. Beazley tells policyholders to check the policy first and gives claims@beazley.com as the US notice route, without a service commitment or a response time. Beazley USA Services, Inc. holds an active Texas Property & Casualty adjuster licence, which evidences in-house adjusting authority in Texas; no other state's adjusting authority is independently established, and no third-party administrator is named for any US programme.^3,9

The reviewed sources establish entity and product disclosures but do not establish a completed five-year conduct result for each named Beazley US entity. Current restrictions, orders and complaints therefore remain unresolved research items rather than negative findings.^2,6,7

Thirteen state company and agency records were retrieved on 22 September 2026 across the four US entities and none carries a restriction, suspension or adverse notation. A licence or authorisation status is not a conduct search, and no completed five-year conduct result exists for any named Beazley US entity.^8,9