The leader of W.R. Berkley Corp. has seen it before—some version of the MGA movie in which delegated underwriting authority is given to market participants whose ambitions aren’t always aligned with capacity providers.

President and Chief Executives Officer W. Robert Berkley, Jr. called out the potential market impacts of managing general agents several times during a second-quarter earnings conference call this week, while he and other executives also reported the s…

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