All the headlines from our London Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 11 2019 // Marco Royer has been named head of Liability for Zurich Canada. Royer will be a member of the Zurich Canada executive team and will report to Zurich Canada CEO Saad Mered. His first day at Zurich will be July 1.He will be...
Apr 9 2019 // More than 50,000 risks have been bound on the London market’s electronic placement platform, with nearly 12,500 risks bound in the last three months alone, announced the board of the Placing Platform Ltd....
Apr 3 2019 // UK specialty managing general agent (MGA) Nexus Group lived up to its description as an “acquisitive insurance intermediary holding company,” with the purchase this week of an MGA and an insurance broker.On...
Apr 3 2019 // Momentum is building in the London market for wider adoption of electronic placement of risks, said the London and International Insurance Brokers’ Association (LIIBA), which announced that more than 100 of its...
Apr 2 2019 // Price Forbes, a London-based broker, has appointed Emma Hewett as leader of its Sharing Economy practice.Price Forbes said its Sharing Economy practice was one of the first established broking teams to specialize in...
Apr 1 2019 // In the era of #MeToo when the ills of sexual harassment are regularly in the news, a recent article published by Bloomberg Businessweek indicates that some men working in the London insurance market still haven’t...
Mar 28 2019 // Specialist Lloyd’s insurer Neon announced it will lead a newly established London Political Risks Insurance Consortium, with MS Amlin becoming a joint agreement party.Spearheaded by Neon’s recently promoted...
Mar 27 2019 // Lloyd’s of London will publicly name and shame anyone it bans from its insurance market for sexual harassment, according to Chief Executive Officer John Neal.“When we do see instances of bad behavior, and...
Mar 25 2019 // Claims veteran Steve Robson has joined Willis Re as head of London Market Reinsurance Claims, effective immediately. He brings extensive client-side experience and perspectives, and supports the closer alignment of the...
Mar 22 2019 // In the era of #MeToo when the ills of sexual harassment are regularly in the news, a recent article published by Bloomberg Businessweek indicates that some men working in the London insurance market still haven’t...
Mar 6 2019 // The Andover fire brigade was alerted at 2.34 a.m. About 2 miles across town, a fire had broken out in the early hours of Feb. 5 at a state-of-the-art Ocado Group Plc warehouse. Within minutes, firefighters were tackling a...
Mar 5 2019 // Aon Plc is considering a combination with rival insurance brokerage Willis Towers Watson Plc, in what could be the industry’s largest ever merger.Aon is in the early stages of exploring an all-share tie-up with...
Mar 4 2019 // The Andover fire brigade was alerted at 2.34 a.m. About 2 miles across town, a fire had broken out in the early hours of Feb. 5 at a state-of-the-art Ocado Group Plc warehouse. Within minutes, firefighters were tackling a...
Feb 20 2019 // England’s High Court on Tuesday gave Aviva, Britain’s second largest insurer, approval to transfer around 9 billion pounds ($11.69 billion) in assets to a new Irish company just before the starting gun is fired...
Feb 20 2019 // Britain’s wholesale insurance brokers got a clean bill of health from the markets watchdog on Wednesday, providing some relief for an industry already spending millions of pounds on Brexit.London’s insurance...
Feb 19 2019 // A.M. Best announced that Roger Sellek will step down as CEO of its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific (AP) regions at the end of March. As part of its succession planning process, A.M. Best has also...
Feb 14 2019 // Aviva Plc asked a London court to approve the transfer of assets totaling 9 billion euros ($10.2 billion), saying the uncertainty from Brexit was “intensifying” as it joined other insurers and banks triggering...
Feb 13 2019 // Months after Uber Technologies Inc. won a reprieve in a high-stakes battle over its operations in the U.K. capital, its London license is back in question.United Cabbies Group, which represents taxi drivers in the capital,...
Feb 13 2019 // Lodestar Marine, the London-based managing general underwriter, announced an agreement with Aspen Insurance to provide protection & indemnity insurance (P&I) to the owners and managers of small and specialized...
Feb 13 2019 // Ascot and Beazley announced the launch of a Lloyd’s-based cargo consortium, which uses insurtech solutions to help manage risk and claims performance.Led by Ascot and Beazley, the consortium brings together a range...