All the headlines from our London Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 7 2025 // Core Specialty Insurance Holdings Inc. and its subsidiaries have agreed to purchase London Aviation Underwriters Inc. (LAU), in a stock and cash transaction.Financial details of the deal, which is expected to close early...
Jan 6 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at AXIS Capital Holdings and Agile Insurance Group.A summary of these new hires follows here. AXIS Appoints Chubb’s Farrup as Head of Global Markets,...
Dec 16 2024 // Lloyd’s of London members have set up a working party to examine the commercial insurance market’s plans to overhaul its conduct rules, a trade body said on Friday, following criticism of the strengthened...
Dec 4 2024 // The owners of Inigo Ltd. are exploring options for the British specialist insurance group including a potential sale, according to people familiar with the matter.The shareholders, which include buyout firm JC Flowers...
Nov 27 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the MGA Coalition and Hamilton Re.A summary of these new hires follows here. Coalition Taps Munich Re’s Foster as Head of London MarketsCoalition,...
Nov 22 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Markel and Generali Global Corporate & Commercial.A summary of these new hires follows. Markel Taps AEGIS London’s Pressman as Senior...
Nov 14 2024 // Commercial insurance market Lloyd’s of London is restructuring its data, operations and change departments, which will involve outsourcing some of those units’ work, a Lloyd’s spokesperson said on...
Nov 5 2024 // Holding signs with slogans including “stop the plop” and “species not feces,” thousands of people marched in London on Sunday to demand a cleanup of Britain’s sewage-clogged...
Oct 28 2024 // International General Insurance Holdings Ltd. announced it will move its London operations to new offices on the 15th floor of the so-called “Walkie-Talkie” building at 20 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 3BY on...
Oct 16 2024 // Britain’s departure from the European Union cost London’s financial center about 40,000 jobs, the Lord Mayor of the City of London told Reuters, a far deeper impact from Brexit than previous estimates.Michael...
Oct 10 2024 // The Lloyd’s insurance market’s only product writing cover for the rescue of miners trapped underground has more than doubled its available cover from $10 million to $25 million with a launch of a new consortium...
Oct 10 2024 // The Lloyd’s of London market is undermining climate action and should impose binding rules to prevent insurers supporting fossil fuel expansion, NGO Reclaim Finance said on Wednesday.Some European insurers, including...
Oct 9 2024 // Intersys, the UK-based provider of cyber risk management solutions, announced its expansion in the UK insurance market with the opening of an office in Leadenhall Market in London.Intersys’ London office will serve...
Oct 2 2024 // Insurers are playing “pass the liability parcel” in a desperate fight against multi-billion dollar claims over aircraft stranded in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine two years ago, lawyers for aviation...
Sep 12 2024 // Lloyd’s of London said on Thursday it plans to overhaul its rules on dealing with poor conduct in the commercial insurance market as its current processes for dealing with bad behavior could be...
Sep 11 2024 // Treaty reinsurance written in the London company market grew by almost one-third in 2023, with the sector generating premiums of £10.889 billion (US$14.2 billion), up from £8.248 billion ($10.8 billion) in 2022,...
Sep 6 2024 // The owners of London’s ExCel conference center on Friday won an appeal brought by insurers, including Allianz, over pandemic-related losses, which its lawyers said could help thousands of other policyholders.London...
Sep 4 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Acrisure Re and Dale Underwriting Partners.A summary of these new hires follows here. Acrisure Re Announces Leadership Changes in International Reinsurance...
Aug 30 2024 // Specialist Risk Group (SRG), the London-based insurance intermediary, announced the acquisition of the ongoing renewal rights of Morton Insurance Brokers, a specialist in private hire and taxi insurance across the UK since...
Aug 23 2024 // Three oil tankers that are under British sanctions for transporting Russian petroleum are sailing under the flag of a nation that bases its operations in London.The Galaxy, the Liberty and the Rigel, all of which moved...