All the headlines from our Lloyd's Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 16 2016 // Ironshore’s Pembroke Managing Agency Ltd. has entered into a management agreement with Old Mutual Group to underwrite select specialty lines for African risks.Pembroke’s Lloyd’s Syndicate 4000 partners...
Jun 10 2016 // Benign catastrophe losses, combined with lower and less frequent casualty lines claims, helped Lloyd’s syndicates deliver another strong set of results in 2015, reporting an average combined ratio of 90 percent,...
Jun 3 2016 // Brexit poses a grave threat to London’s insurance jobs and businesses, according to the International Underwriting Association of London (IUA), Lloyds, and Richard Brindle, group chief executive officer of Fidelis.In...
May 27 2016 // Two insurers, Travelers and Novae, have joined the Construction Consortium at Lloyd’s to offer greatly increased underwriting capacity for the largest construction risks in the world across all major onshore...
May 24 2016 // Safebuilt Insurance Services, Inc., dba SIS Wholesale Insurance Services, a national commercial lines program administrator, has been appointed as a Lloyd’s coverholder. The coverholder undertaking allows SIS to...
May 20 2016 // Ryan Specialty Group’s (RSG) ThinkRisk Underwriting Agency has entered into a new underwriting partnership for its Converging Risk program with Lloyd’s of London.ThinkRisk will transition its existing...
May 19 2016 // XL Group plc announced it has appointed Sean McGovern as chief compliance officer, head of Regulatory & Government Affairs, moving from Lloyd’s of London where he is chief risk officer and general counsel.In this...
May 18 2016 // Insurance Noodle, the online, membership-based insurance placement platform, has been appointed a coverholder with Lloyd’s of London and is now authorized to underwrite and insure accounts on behalf of certain...
May 18 2016 // Delta Lloyd NV, the Dutch insurer that last month completed a rights offer to shore up its capital buffers, said its ability to absorb losses weakened in the first quarter.The Solvency II ratio, a measure of an...
May 9 2016 // Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK), the leading provider of specialist and corporate insurance, has launched its first General Aviation Consortium on the Lloyd’s Asia platform.The consortium will provide all brokers and buyers...
May 6 2016 // Marketform, the London-based specialist Lloyd’s insurer, has appointed Martin Kelsh to the newly created role of production & distribution director.Kelsh joined Marketform on May 3 to develop and enhance the...
May 3 2016 // MS Amlin announced it is now operating as one brand in the Lloyd’s market, as a single managing agency, MS Amlin Underwriting Ltd.Operating from 22 locations across three continents, the MS Amlin business will...
Apr 28 2016 // Lloyd’s managing agents should take full advantage of Oasis, the open source catastrophe modeling platform, in order to get wider views on catastrophe risks, urged Tom Bolt, Lloyd’s director of performance...
Apr 27 2016 // Global Risk Partners, the acquisitive insurance broking and managing general agency (MGA) investment vehicle, has agreed to back the management buyout of LONMAR Global Risks, the specialist Lloyd’s broker. The...
Apr 20 2016 // AmTrust Financial Services said it has agreed to buy specialty insurance company ANV Holdings B.V. and its Lloyd’s affiliates for $218.7 million in cash.The seller is the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. As part...
Apr 19 2016 // AXA is targeting the rapidly expanding market for African specialty insurance by partnering with Chaucer, a Lloyd’s specialty insurance group.The new venture, called “AXA Africa Specialty Risks,” will be...
Apr 18 2016 // CGNMB LLP, the London-based Lloyd’s broker, announced that Gordon Newman will retire from his role as CEO on April 20.Subject to regulatory approvals, his role and responsibilities will be assumed by Steve Hearn, CEO...
Apr 18 2016 // Oregon is considering another year of insurance coverage to help pay for catastrophic wildfire seasons.British insurance giant Lloyd’s is offering the state another year of coverage despite three consecutive years of...
Apr 13 2016 // Hamilton Underwriting Ltd., the managing agency of Lloyd’s Syndicate 3334 and the Lloyd’s operations of Bermuda-based Hamilton Insurance Group, announced that Daniel Prince has been hired as head of...
Apr 12 2016 // The negative impact of low interest rates and soft market pricing on London market insurers has been partially offset by low levels of large claims, according to Fitch Ratings in a special report.London market insurers...