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...Ingosstrakh, which evolved out of the Soviet-era Chief Agency of Foreign Insurance, is one of Russia’s largest insurers. Insurance for shipping is a small part of its portfolio....
...In partnership with Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, Lloyd’s is conducting research into the role of insurance in the transatlantic slave trade, through which millions of Africans were forcibly transported...
...Aspen is owned by private equity group Apollo and sells insurance and reinsurance through the Lloyd’s of London market as well as in Bermuda and the US....
...Lloyd’s of London — the world’s oldest insurance market — acquired a reputation for inefficiency, complacency and boorish behaviour. Yet last year’s performance was the best for 16 years....
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...On Monday, the company announced it was buying Lloyd’s insurer Probitas for £242mn....
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...In the days after the disaster, the chief executive of the Lloyd’s of London insurance market called on the various insurers, including Chubb as the lead insurer for the bridge, to pay out quickly and then...
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...Microsoft, which owns Excel, said the company remained a “key technology partner for companies across financial services broadly, and insurance specifically”....
...Lloyd’s of London, a big market for property catastrophe reinsurance, registered its best overall performance since 2007....
...Lloyd’s of London in 2006 over asbestos claims....
...Lloyd’s of London and Arch Insurance are listed as representative defendants on behalf of the multiple insurers on the policies....
...But a less-followed risk is adding to unease at companies offering life and health insurance: scientists’ warnings, and research findings, that a warming climate is causing an increasing number of excess...
...Analysts at RBC Capital Markets have estimated the car financing problems, which have echoes of the payment protection insurance scandal, could cost Lloyds £2.5bn, more than any of its rivals....
...White said the materials underlined the relationship between Lloyd’s and the African Company of Merchants, a key slave-trading venture, and revealed the role of several members of the governing committee...
...Lloyd’s said the agreement with Chinese insurance company Ping An, which has owned the building for a decade, will allow it to continue its renovation of workspaces and make further refurbishments, including...
...from state-owned insurance companies....
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