All the headlines from our Lloyd's Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 16 2014 // RPX Corp., a provider of patent risk management products, has launched a new insurance service for businesses facing patent infringement litigation with non-practicing entities (NPEs). As a coverholder at Lloyd’s,...
Apr 11 2014 // Secure Settlements, Inc. (SSI),a data intelligence and risk analytics company for the mortgage industry, has partnered with RFIB Group Ltd. and certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer a new product that...
Apr 11 2014 // The Catlin Group Limited (CGL) announced from its Singapore, office the formation of the General Aviation Consortium at Lloyd’s Asia to write General Aviation insurance and reinsurance risks based in the Asia-Pacific...
Apr 10 2014 // Aon Plc, the broker that was criticized by Lloyd’s of London for a deal with Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said the relationship actually helps make the U.K. insurance market more...
Apr 6 2014 // If you run in libertarian circles, you hear a lot about lawsuits. It’s the obvious recourse for anyone who wants less regulation but can’t bring themselves to insist that, say, chemical companies should be...
Apr 6 2014 // The Marquis de Sade’s scandalous and sexually graphic novel “120 Days of Sodom” has come back home.Written in prison in 1785 — just before the French Revolution — and described by the Marquis...
Apr 2 2014 // When Torus Insurance was founded by first Reserve, headed by Clive Tobin in 2008, the worst effects of the financial crisis were just beginning to bite, but they bit pretty hard. The company, although well run, and...
Mar 31 2014 // Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG announced that it has received approval from Lloyd’s, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to establish its own Lloyd’s...
Mar 28 2014 // Lloyd’s of London, the world’s oldest insurance market, has said it stands ready to pay out claims arising from the presumed loss of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, even as searchers continue to scour the Indian...
Mar 27 2014 // Early this month, JPMorgan Chase & Co. stopped managing an investment account for a prominent client: the charitable foundation of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, one of the nation’s largest fraternities.The bank was...
Mar 26 2014 // Lloyd’s announced a profit of £3.2 billion [$5.2894 billion] for 2013, compared to a profit of £2.8 billion [$4.628 billion] in 2012. Gross written premium income increased to £26.1 billion [$43.14 billion]....
Mar 24 2014 // A.M. Best has affirmed the financial strength ratings of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings of “a+” of UK-based Markel International Insurance Company Limited (MIICL) and Lloyd’s...
Mar 19 2014 // Companies should be aware of how best to protect their brands after an incident. “The key to remaining resilient and keeping brands and reputations intact is responding quickly and appropriately,” Lloyd’s...
Mar 13 2014 // Canadian underwear brand UNDZ has announced that as of March 15 it has arranged to provide a “$50,000 insurance policy to protect its customers’ most prized asset” – in simpler terms it’s offering...
Mar 6 2014 // Specialist Lloyd’s underwriter Marketform announced that it is the first Lloyd’s Managing Agency to secure a coverholder in Lithuania, one of the fast-emerging countries in the Baltic region.“Initially...
Feb 13 2014 // Qatar Insurance Company SAQ (QIC) announced that it has reached agreement to acquire the entire share capital of Antares Holdings Limited, together with its subsidiaries, a specialist insurer and reinsurer operating in the...
Feb 11 2014 // Representatives of over 75 percent of the UK’s Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA) member organizations gathered yesterday to hear Peter Montanaro, Head of Delegated Authorities at Lloyd’s, set...
Feb 5 2014 // ANV Holdings BV, the Dutch headquartered specialty insurance business, announced a wide restructuring of its underwriting leadership within ANV Syndicate 1861.The bulletin described the initiative “as a testament to...
Feb 3 2014 // Lloyd’s announced the launch of its new shared service, Volume Claims Service (VCS), which it said is “part of its overarching Claims Transformation Program, a fast and fair claims handling service which offers...
Jan 28 2014 // Lloyd’s of London insurers Beazley and Hiscox have partnered to offer brokers and clients a D&O consortium through which the syndicates will provide materially higher limits and offer additional options to...