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Pushing and Pulling Lloyd’s Into the 21st Century

Jul 10 2019 // Twenty-five years ago, the Lloyd’s of London marketplace was teetering on the brink of insolvency, reeling from billions of dollars of asbestos and pollution liabilities. Many of the best brains in the market worked...

Lloyd’s Sets Targets for Risks Placed Electronically for Remainder of 2019

Jul 3 2019 // Lloyd’s has confirmed the mandated targets for electronic placement of risks for the remainder of 2019.For Q3 2019 each syndicate will be required to have written no less than 60% of its risks using a recognized...

Global #MeToo Movement Provides Lots of Work for London’s Top Lawyers

Jul 3 2019 // The global #MeToo movement, in which women across much of the corporate world have spoken out about sexual harassment at work, is having an unintended consequence: more work for top city lawyers.Clifford Chance, one of...

Lloyd’s Suspends Broker Over Harassing Email

Jun 25 2019 // Lloyd’s of London has suspended a senior broker at Guy Carpenter & Co. for sending colleagues a sexually suggestive email about a female employee and is planning to take similar action against a second person who...

As Lloyd’s Jettisons Some Marine Insurance Lines, Opportunities Created for Rivals

Jun 24 2019 // Rivals to Lloyd’s of London are riding a rising tide of marine insurance rates, leaving the 330-year-old market behind after it jettisoned sections of its oldest line of business last year.Premiums for marine...

Lloyd’s Gathers Group of Industry Heavy-Hitters as Advisers for Its Future Strategy

Jun 20 2019 // Lloyd’s has gathered a group of industry heavy-hitters — such as Evan Greenberg at Chubb, Dan Glaser at Marsh & McLennan, and John Haley at Willis Towers Watson — to sit on advisory committees that...

Latest Shift in Growth Strategy at Lloyd’s Calls for More U.S. Business

Jun 19 2019 // Lloyd’s of London Ltd. is meeting with major U.S. insurers about driving more business through its global insurance market, Chief Executive Officer John Neal said on Wednesday.The 330-year-old insurance market, which...

Aspen Taps Brekenfeld from Lloyd’s as Director of Global Corporate Development

Jun 19 2019 // Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd. announced that Joshua (Josh) Brekenfeld has been appointed director of Global Corporate Development.Brekenfeld joins Aspen from Lloyd’s of London where he spent six years in senior...

Lloyd’s of London Aims to Revamp Auto Coverage as Era of Driverless Cars Looms

Jun 18 2019 // Lloyd’s of London, the 330-year-old insurance market, is pushing to revamp auto coverage as the rise of driverless cars looms. Chief Executive Officer John Neal said that Lloyd’s is talking with automakers...

ACORD InsurTech Innovation Challenge’s European Winner Is Riskbook

Jun 17 2019 // ACORD, the global standards body for the insurance industry, has announced that Riskbook was the winner of the London semi-final round of the ACORD InsurTech Innovation Challenge (AIIC), with RITA and Optimiz.Claims named...

City of London Tackles Its Daytime Drink Problem – One Institution at a Time: Opinion

Jun 17 2019 // For most of the traders, bankers, lawyers and accountants who populate the City of London, the era of excessive daytime boozing is long gone. Pubs and pints have been replaced by coffee shops and lattes. Dealmaking...

Lawsuit Filed for ‘Defective’ Products Linked to London’s Grenfell Tower Fire Disaster

Jun 13 2019 // Three U.S. companies have been slapped with a wrongful death and products liability lawsuit for manufacturing products linked to London’s Grenfell tower fire. The fire, which has been called the worst UK residential...

Suspected Attack on 2 Oil Tankers Near Strait of Hormuz Stokes Fears of War

Jun 13 2019 // Two oil tankers were damaged on Thursday in a suspected attack near the entrance to the Persian Gulf, stoking fears that high-stakes diplomatic efforts won’t avert a military confrontation between the U.S. and Iran....

London Market Broker BMS Partners with BitSight to Provide Cyber Risk Analysis

Jun 11 2019 // BMS Group, the London-based independent specialist re/insurance broker, has partnered with BitSight, a cyber security ratings company, to provide cyber risk analysis services to BMS clients across all lines of...

2 Execs at Lloyd’s Insurer TMK Forced to Resign After Sexual Harassment Allegations

Jun 11 2019 // Two executives at a top Lloyd’s of London insurance company have resigned following allegations of sexual harassment. One was accused of groping colleagues at a booze-fueled party, the other of stalking a junior...

Claims Adjusting Firm Global Risk Solutions Opens London Office

Jun 7 2019 // Global Risk Solutions, Inc., the Miami-based provider of claims adjusting and environmental risk management services, announced the opening of a London office.Located at Dawson House, 5 Jewry Street, London, the new office...

Dunleavy Named Aspen Re’s CUO, Succeeding Issavi Who Moves to Ryan Specialty

Jun 7 2019 // Emil Issavi, previously Aspen Re’s president and chief underwriting officer and managing director of the Americas is taking on a new role as a senior executive of Ryan Specialty Group (RSG), RSG Underwriting Managers...

Two New London Market Model Cyber Exclusion Clauses Published by IUA

Jun 6 2019 // Two new London Market model clauses to help underwriters manage cyber losses have been published by the International Underwriting Association (IUA).The wordings have been developed in order to address issues of...

London Must Avoid Becoming ‘Offshore’ Financial Center After Brexit, Says CFTC Chief

Jun 5 2019 // Policymakers should “tether” London to the European Union to avoid isolating the region’s largest financial hub, harming the euro zone economy and spawning an offshore financial center, the head of the...

Opponents of Airport Expansion Plan to Use Drones to Close London’s Heathrow

May 31 2019 // Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion have drawn up plans to use drones to shut London’s Heathrow Airport this summer in a campaign to stop the construction of a third runway at Europe’s busiest airport,...