All the headlines from our Lloyd's Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 8 2016 // Aon plc has launched Lloyd’s Lead Excess Aon Facility (Lloyd’s LEAF), a program that increases placement options for Aon’s U.S. clients facing global casualty risks while delivering greater contract...
Feb 2 2016 // Shariah compliant managing general agent Cobalt Underwriting has launched a new political violence product backed by Chaucer.Cobalt, the London market’s only Shariah compliant underwriting agency, will offer the...
Feb 1 2016 // Lloyd’s has started holding open trading sessions at its Singapore hub, which are designed to speed up insurance placements.The sessions enable brokers to see multiple markets at one time and provide faster...
Jan 29 2016 // Specialist Lloyd’s underwriter Marketform, which operates Syndicate 2468 at Lloyd’s, announced that Roberto Murru joined the company as an underwriter in its growing financial lines team led by Ian West.Fluent...
Jan 28 2016 // London-based Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), which is part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has joined the Lloyd’s China platform.LSM’s Underwriting Division of Lloyd’s Insurance Company (China) Ltd....
Jan 21 2016 // Specialist (re)insurer, Lloyd’s, has appointed Enya He as regional director for its newly-established South Central United States region. She will be based in Dallas and be responsible for market development...
Jan 19 2016 // Lloyd’s of London announced that a set of common core data requirements for cyber risks has been agreed by collaborating with modeling firms AIR Worldwide and RMS, along with RMS’ partner, the Cambridge Centre...
Jan 14 2016 // Ironshore International announced its subsidiary, Pembroke Managing Agency, will establish an office in Shanghai in January 2016 as part of the Lloyd’s China platform.Pembroke Managing Agency will underwrite...
Jan 12 2016 // Everest Re Group Ltd. announced that Paul Kneafsey will be joining the company as the active underwriter of its Lloyd’s Syndicate 2786. Kneafsey is expected to assume his new role effective May 1, 2016.He will join...
Jan 11 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 Adrian Daws has been appointed to the position of...
Jan 8 2016 // Neil Maidment, Beazley’s chief underwriting officer, has been elected to the Council of Lloyd’s for a three year term, beginning on Feb. 1. Maidment has worked in the Lloyd’s market for 31 years,...
Dec 16 2015 // Lloyd’s of London has announced that it “plans to launch its own insurance based index in mid-2016. This would be the first index for diversified risk, showing loss ratios and focused on insurance...
Dec 14 2015 // Ironshore Inc. announced that its Pembroke Managing Agency Limited and Mexico reinsurance company, Patria Re, have received Lloyd’s approval to establish a Special Purpose Syndicate (SPS).“Patria Re will join...
Dec 3 2015 // Lloyd’s of London announced its director of performance management, Tom Bolt, has decided to leave the corporation in mid-2016, after almost seven years of front line service.Bolt was appointed in September 2009, and...
Dec 2 2015 // Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. announced that AXIS Syndicate 1686 has recently received approval from Lloyd’s for the establishment of an underwriting division at Lloyd’s Insurance Company (China)...
Dec 1 2015 // Shanghai Asian Insurance Brokers Co. Ltd. (SAIB) has been registered as the first Chinese Lloyd’s registered broker.Based in Shanghai, SAIB specializes in liability insurance, special risk insurance and reinsurance,...
Nov 30 2015 // Eight Lloyd’s syndicates are joining forces to develop new solutions to help developing economies tackle underinsurance and improve their resilience against the economic impact of natural catastrophes.Emerging...
Nov 25 2015 // Hamilton Underwriting Ltd., the managing agency of Lloyd’s Syndicate 3334, and the Lloyd’s operations of Hamilton Insurance Group, announced the appointment of two senior underwriters who will lead the...
Nov 20 2015 // Validus Holdings announced a series of senior management appointments at Talbot Underwriting Ltd., its wholly owned subsidiary.Rupert Atkin will retire as chief executive officer of Talbot on Feb. 29, 2016. Peter Bilsby,...
Nov 10 2015 // Xchanging plc, the London-based business technology and services provider, has won a three-year contract to supply insurance services to the Lloyd’s service companies operating from the Lloyd’s Asia platform in...