All the headlines from our Lloyd's Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 14 2010 // Lloyd’s has recreated its underwriting room in Dublin in the first event of its kind seen in Ireland. The unusual event “allowed representatives from the Irish and Lloyd’s markets to discuss their...
Sep 7 2010 // Lloyd’s announced that it has joined with brokers Marsh, Cooper Gay and RK Harrison Group in a trial to test the use of iPads in its underwriting room.The trial is set to commence in early September. Lloyd’s...
Sep 1 2010 // The long, flowing black hair that tumbles out of NFL star Troy Polamalu’s helmet and down his back has been insured for $1 million by Head and Shoulders, the shampoo brand that is endorsed by the Pittsburgh Steelers...
Aug 30 2010 // Lawyers for Texas financier Allen Stanford and two accounting executives who worked for him sought to distance their clients Friday from the alleged financial wrongdoing insurer Lloyd’s of London cites as a reason to...
Aug 25 2010 // A bulletin on the Lloyd’s of London web site (www.lloyds.com) warns that a “major transformer failure can wreak havoc, causing power shortages or outages affecting millions of homes and businesses and costing...
Aug 25 2010 // Laura Holt, the former chief investment officer for accused Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford’s financial firm, has reached a settlement with Lloyd’s of London over her defense fees, a federal judge said...
Aug 5 2010 // A new study from Lloyd’s shows that East London has experienced a tenfold increase in extreme daily rainfall since 1960 and warns that the closing of meteorological stations is resulting in incomplete data and...
Aug 2 2010 // When the present Lloyd’s building was completed in 1986, the architecture was called high tech, but inside you would have found that the offices contained no Internet, no e-mails and no World Wide Web. Since the...
Jul 26 2010 // Lloyd’s Chairman Lord Levene, speaking at a recent Lloyd’s seminar in Rio de Janeiro, gave high marks to the successful establishment the Lloyd’s market has made in Brazil, describing it as...
Jul 21 2010 // A workshop held in Lloyd’s Old Library sought to answer that question, by examining the impact global warming could have on the hurricane season. Lloyd’s cited the fact that “analysis of weather patterns...
Jul 20 2010 // The New York-based Navigators Group announced that its wholly-owned syndicate, Navigators Syndicate 1221 at Lloyd’s of London, is co-locating with Lloyd’s in Rio de Janeiro by appointing a local...
Jul 16 2010 // In a brief statement Lloyd’s of London officially welcomed the successful passage of the Dodd-Frank Act through the US Senate. Sean McGovern, Lloyd’s Director and General Counsel, stated: “We welcome the...
Jul 9 2010 // Lloyd’s of London will not insure or reinsure petroleum shipments going into Iran, the insurance market said on Friday.U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law last week far-reaching new sanctions that aim to...
Jul 8 2010 // “Brokers are now significantly more positive about conducting business at Lloyd’s than two years ago,” according to a survey of the Lloyd’s market from part of the Gracechurch London Market Study...
Jul 7 2010 // Lloyd’s managing agents are predicting their businesses will get a big boost from the market being granted a licence to write direct insurance in China [See IJ web site –...
Jul 6 2010 // Underwriters from London’s marine insurance market are looking at how to comply with fresh sanctions being imposed on Iran, a senior Lloyd’s Market Association (LMA) official said on Friday.Iran, the...
Jul 6 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a+” of Lloyd’s of London and Lloyd’s Reinsurance Company (China)...
Jul 1 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the Best’s Syndicate Rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating of “a+” of Lloyd’s Syndicate 3000, both with stable outlooks.The ratings reflect...
Jun 24 2010 // Lloyd’s has announced its first ever Science of Risk prize. The initiative, aimed at “risk-related research from PhD students or Post-Doctoral research staff,” is focused on studies in the following...