Result of AGM

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Beazley PLC

24 March 2010

 



Beazley plc

AGM Results

Dublin, 24 March 2010

Beazley Plc - Annual General Meeting Results

Beazley plc held its annual general meeting for shareholders at 12pm today and announces that all the resolutions were duly passed.

Full details of the resolutions passed as special business will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority for publication through the Listing Authority's Document and Viewing Facility.

The total number of votes received by the Chairman for use in a poll for each resolution is set out below.  The number of 5p ordinary shares in issue and the number of voting rights on 23^rd March 2010 was 531,120,689.

Resolution No	Description	For and discretionary	Against	Withheld
1 Ordinary	To receive the Financial Statements	427,673,350	929,382	3,669,600
2 Ordinary	To receive and adopt the Directors' Remuneration Report	281,549,132	112,953,991	37,769,209
3 Ordinary	To re-elect Martin Bride as a Director	429,842,755	2,427,927	1,650
4 Ordinary	To re-elect George Blunden as a Director	426,580,588	5,691,652	92
5 Ordinary	To re-elect Vincent Sheridan as a Director	430,632,188	1,639,052	1,092
6 Ordinary	To re-elect Jonathan Gray as a Director	423,011,100	9,261,140	92
7 Ordinary	To re-elect Gordon Hamilton as a Director	423,393,800	8,877,440	1,092
8 Ordinary	To re-elect Dan Jones as a Director	423,376,300	8,894,940	1,092
9 Ordinary	To re-appoint the Auditors	425,847,002	6,424,237	1,093
10 Ordinary	To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors remuneration	429,712,524	2,361,649	198,159
11 Ordinary	To authorise the Directors to allot shares generally	413,532,831	10,466,758	8,272,743
12 Special	To approve a limited disapplication of pre-emption rights	429,602,656	2,669,676	-
13 Special	To authorise the limited purchase by the company of its own shares	431,852,851	8,102	411,379
14 Special	To approve the calling of general meetings of the Company, other than the annual general meeting, at not less than 14 clear days' notice.	422,945,723	9,124,450	202,159
15 Special	To approve and adopt the Company's amended Articles of Association	422,944,336	9,124,450	203,546

For further information, please contact:

Beazley plc
Sian Coope

[phone]

Note to editors:

Beazley plc (BEZ.L), is the parent company of specialist insurance businesses with operations in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia.  Beazley manages five Lloyd's syndicates and, in 2009, underwrote gross premiums worldwide of £1,115.5 million.  All Lloyd's syndicates are rated A by A.M. Best. 

Beazley's underwriters in the United States focus on writing a range of specialist insurance products.  In the admitted market, coverage is provided by Beazley Insurance Company, Inc., an A.M. Best A rated carrier licensed in all 50 states.  In the surplus lines market, coverage is provided by the Beazley syndicates at Lloyd's.

Beazley is a market leader in many of its chosen lines, which include professional indemnity, property, marine, reinsurance, accident and life, and political risks and contingency business.

For more information please go to: www.beazley.com

 

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