All the headlines from our Lloyd's Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 28 2015 // As he prepared to sign a Statement of Intent (SOI) between the British Government, the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Lloyd’s in Singapore, UK Prime Minister David Cameron stressed that insurance is essential to...
Jul 27 2015 // UK regulators need to widen stress tests for insurers to show how the whole industry, including themselves, would respond to an event on the scale of the 9/11 attacks, Hiscox Ltd. said.Unless the Prudential Regulation...
Jul 24 2015 // Beazley Plc CEO Andrew Horton called on Lloyd’s of London to overhaul the way it manages trade information to make the world’s oldest insurance market more efficient and globally competitive.“The transfer...
Jul 20 2015 // A cyber attack on the U.S. power grid in the Northeast would have far-reaching implications including the loss of lives, economic losses of as much as a trillion dollars, the disruption of water supplies and...
Jul 16 2015 // Climate change reports and studies abound lately – as you will note from a previous column – but one recent report gives potentially the starkest prediction yet of what impacts climate change could have.The report from...
Jul 14 2015 // Lloyd’s has announced that it has received approval from the Colombian authorities to open a representative office in Bogotá. The bulletin noted that “under the new Lloyd’s representative office license,...
Jul 8 2015 // A cyber attack on the U.S. power grid in the Northeast would have far-reaching implications including the loss of lives, economic losses of as much as a trillion dollars, the disruption of water supplies and...
Jun 25 2015 // Chedid Europe Reinsurance Brokerage Limited, headquartered in Dubai, UAE, has announced its registration as a Lloyd’s broker.Chedid Re, which is a subsidiary of the Lebanese group Chedid Capital Holding, said this...
Jun 24 2015 // Lloyd’s of London has stopped insuring marijuana industry firms of any kind due to conflicts between federal and state laws over their legality.In a May 29 memo addressed “Dear Colleague,” obtained by...
Jun 22 2015 // Aon Benfield Analytics’ Market Analysis team has released its latest Lloyd’s Update report, which assesses the market’s 2014 financial performance and latest developments.Key findings in the report...
Jun 16 2015 // Lloyd’s has published the results of a study that examines the “vulnerability of the overstretched global food system to sudden shocks, and the wide repercussions for communities, businesses and...
Jun 15 2015 // Geoff White, underwriting manager for Cyber, Technology and Media at Barbican Insurance Group, has been elected chairman of the Lloyd’s Market Association’s (LMA) newly created Cyber Business Panel.White was...
Jun 8 2015 // Specialist Lloyd’s underwriter Marketform has announced the promotion of Ian West to Head of Financial and Professional Lines. He will also continue as the Class Underwriter for Financial Lines, reporting to Chief...
Jun 8 2015 // Xuber, Xchanging’s insurance software business, announced that it has been appointed by P/C reinsurer Ariel Re to provide “the Xuber ‘for Reinsurers solution suite’ for the company’s...
Jun 4 2015 // Ascot Underwriting Ltd., the London-based Lloyd’s managing agency, has appointed Scott Beall as chief underwriting officer of casualty facultative and Lex Smart as senior vice president of Ascot Fac. The team will...
May 29 2015 // Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to renegotiate Britain’s ties with Europe and then give voters a referendum on European Union membership by the end of 2017. Following are the views of business...
May 28 2015 // Lloyd’s has appointed Louis Cassar Pullicino as the new representative for Lloyd’s in Malta, assuming the role of director of Lloyd’s Malta Limited.Pullicino replaces Mark Gollcher, who helped...
May 21 2015 // Ascot Underwriting Ltd. has formed Renewco Consortium (ReCo), a dedicated and independent underwriting platform for the renewable energy industry.The Lloyd’s consortium is jointly led by Ascot and Chaucer and managed...
May 19 2015 // ANV Holdings has unveiled a new consumer products team within Lloyd’s Syndicate 5820, reporting to Bruce Whitmee, who was recently appointed active underwriter (subject to regulatory approval).Based in London, the...
May 18 2015 // MSIG at Lloyd’s, the international specialty arm of Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group, has appointed Martin Eyres as property underwriting manager and promoted Andrew Dougall as head of property and casualty.Eyres, who...