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London Company Market Grew 10% in 2019

Oct 8 2020 // Premium income for the London company market grew by 10% last year with £21.436 billion of large commercial and wholesale risks underwritten by firms in the City.A new report from the International Underwriting...

Exiting Insurers, Premium Hikes Frustrate Canada’s Struggling Hospitality Industry

Oct 8 2020 // Canadian hospitality businesses, already reeling from the downturn sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, are facing yet another existential threat as insurance companies spike premiums or exit the space, citing losses and...

Judges Nix Consolidating COVID Business Interruption Suits Against Big Insurers

Oct 4 2020 // A panel of federal judges has decided against consolidation of hundreds of lawsuits seeking coverage for coronavirus-related business interruption claims against major national insurers Travelers, The Hartford, Cincinnati...

White Mountains to Buy 72% Stake in Lloyd’s Insurer Ark for Growth in Hardening Market

Oct 1 2020 // White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to invest fresh capital in and to acquire a majority interest in Ark Insurance Holdings Ltd., the parent company of Ark Syndicate...

Lloyd’s Launches Biz Interruption Insurance Policy for SMEs, Led by Tokio Marine Kiln

Sep 30 2020 // Lloyd’s has launched a new “first-of-its-kind” business interruption policy for small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), specifically designed to protect them against IT disruption or...

Reinsurance Experience in Africa, Asia Sets MGA Tempo Underwriting Apart

Sep 29 2020 // Tom Bailey, executive director of Tempo Underwriting, has a theory about what it takes to build a business based on the reinsurance MGA model.“For a reinsurance MGA to be successful and to have a strong offering, you...

American Financial Group Agrees to Sell Run-Off Lloyd’s Insurer Neon to RiverStone

Sep 28 2020 // American Financial Group Inc. announced it has reached a definitive agreement to sell GAI Holding Bermuda and its subsidiaries, comprising the legal entities that own its Lloyd’s of London insurer, Neon, to...

What Ever Happened to Hedge Fund Reinsurers?

Sep 25 2020 // The latest group of reinsurers to emerge in the Bermuda market is starting to look different. Even the name that once described the cohort has changed in the past five years.And at least one member of the group of...

Lloyd’s CEO Neal Sees Appeal of COVID Business Insurance Ruling Coming

Sep 25 2020 // Lloyd’s of London Chief Executive John Neal said on Thursday he expected a London judgment, which ordered some insurers to compensate struggling businesses for losses during the COVID-19 pandemic, to be...

Arch Insurance Forms Single Managing Agency to Manage 4 Lloyd’s Operations

Sep 23 2020 // Arch Insurance International has formed Arch Managing Agency Limited to mange its Lloyd’s units.Arch Managing Agency Limited, which brings together Arch Underwriting at Lloyd’s and Barbican Managing Agency Ltd....

Blackstone Joins Brit’s Parent Fairfax in Investing in Lloyd’s Digital Venture Ki

Sep 17 2020 // Digital Lloyd’s syndicate Ki reported that it has raised US$500 million from funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities and Fairfax Financial Holdings, parent of specialty insurer Brit that is behind Ki.Ki...

Lloyd’s Names AIG/Blackboard’s Schoberth to New U.S. Market Development Position

Sep 14 2020 // Lloyd’s of London has appointed Uwe Schoberth as U.S. market development director, a new role focused on expanding its strategic relationships with retail, wholesale and reinsurance brokers in its largest market. In...

Lloyd’s Underlying Underwriting Results See ‘Huge Improvement’ Despite COVID Losses

Sep 11 2020 // While Lloyd’s overall results in the second half were hit by £2.4 billion ($3.12 billion) of COVID-19 claims, the market’s underlying underwriting performance saw a “huge improvement,” which Chief...

Lloyd’s Reports First Half Loss of $520M on COVID-19 Insurance Claims

Sep 10 2020 // Lloyd’s of London recorded a pretax loss of 400 million pounds ($520.08 million) in the first half, battered by the coronavirus pandemic, the commercial insurance market said on Thursday.Insurers around the world...

S&P Says Underwriting in Lloyd’s Market Continues to Improve

Sep 7 2020 // The Lloyd’s market looks unlikely to turn an underwriting profit in 2020 given the pandemic and hurricane season. However, there are signs of improvement, according to analysts at S&P Global Ratings.S&P notes...

3 Questions for Lloyd’s U.S. Chief Hank Watkins

Sep 7 2020 // Lloyd’s of London announced it plans to stop accepting admitted market accounts in the United States in a year and focus on the U.S. reinsurance and excess and surplus (E&S) insurance market, where it is the...

Beat Capital Partners with Bain Capital to Support Lloyd’s Syndicate 4242

Sep 2 2020 // The London-based, insurance-focused investment firm Beat Capital Partners said it is creating a dedicated underwriting vehicle, funded by Bain Capital Credit, which will provide capital through its Syndicate 4242 to...

Lloyd’s Gets to Keep $3 Million Because FDIC Waited Too Long to Collect

Aug 25 2020 // Lloyd’s of London does not have to pay the U.S. government’s Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. $3 million in judgment interest because the FDIC waited too long —18 months after a final judgment — to try to...

Lloyd’s Appoints Canal’s Bond as U.S. Head of Claims

Aug 25 2020 // Lloyd’s of London has named Carey Bond as U.S. head of Claims, a newly created role that stems from the Future at Lloyd’s strategy.Based in Greenville, South Carolina, he’ll be responsible for overseeing...

Direct Insurance Names Business Development Manager for Its Lloyd’s Brokers

Aug 21 2020 // Direct Insurance Group has appointed Simon England to business development manager for its Lloyd’s broker division, Direct Insurance London Market (DILM).England joins from Compass where he was strategic accounts...