XL Group plc is a financial services company headquartered in Ireland with executive offices in Bermuda. The company has approximately 3600 employees and offices on Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. Formerly XL Capital Ltd, the company officially changed its name and domicile on 1 July 2010.

The company is organized into three operating segments – Insurance, Reinsurance and Life Operations. Its Life Operations segment is currently not accepting any new business.

Its global Insurance segment operates under the brand ‘XL Insurance’ and provides commercial property, casualty, professional liability, environmental liability, aviation and satellite, marine and offshore energy, product recall, political risks, equine, fine art and specie, excess and surplus lines and other insurance coverages.

XL’s Reinsurance companies, collectively known as ‘XL Re’, provide casualty, property risk (including energy and engineering), property catastrophe, marine, aviation, and other specialty reinsurance globally.

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Michael S. "Mike" McGavick (born February 7, 1958, Seattle, Washington) is an American business executive and a graduate of the University of Washington.

McGavick was a Republican candidate for the US Senate seat held by Maria Cantwell in the 2006 election, but Cantwell retained her seat. In March 2008, Bermuda-based XL Capital announced that McGavick would take over as CEO beginning on May 1, 2008.

McGavick is the CEO of Bermuda-based XL Capital Ltd, and former Chairman/President/CEO of the insurance company Safeco.

He served as Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Slade Gorton and manager of Gorton's campaign in 1988. He later served as Director of the American Insurance Association's Superfund Improvement Project in Washington, D.C., where he was the American Insurance Association's lead negotiator in working to transform the nation's Superfund environmental laws. He was also a staff member of the Seattle-based Washington Roundtable, a non-partisan policy research group composed of the chief executive officers of the state's largest corporations.^{[citation needed]}