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...Lloyd’s of London has attracted its biggest syndicate backed by individuals, or “Names”, since the early 1990s, as the insurance market looks to rebuild a base among private investors after its best performance...
...The move would cement the group as one of the biggest underwriters in the London market. This year, the company will write around £2bn of business within Lloyd’s itself....
...MS Amlin, one of the biggest Lloyd’s of London insurers, plans to expand in areas such as marine cover and liability insurance after spending three years repairing its underwriting profit margins....
...But at a private event last month, one executive at the corporation that oversees the market told underwriters that it has not yet seen clear evidence that a warming climate is a major driver in claims costs...
...The chief executive of the Lloyd’s of London insurance market has said insurers should “just get on with it” and pay out for the Baltimore bridge collapse, rather than waiting for years of wrangling over...
...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....
...Aviva is re-entering Lloyd’s of London for the first time in more than two decades to boost its exposure to the thriving commercial insurance market....
...Several industry veterans told the Financial Times that Ki, a digital insurer in the Lloyd’s of London market that provides insurance cover to businesses, had increased awareness of the benefits of automation...
...Some users of Medicare, the US government-funded insurance programme for seniors, will be able to access weight-loss drugs if they suffer from certain conditions such as cardiovascular disease, officials...
...Lloyd’s of London has delivered its best underwriting performance since 2007 and signalled that commercial insurance prices are likely to stay high in the coming years....
...Insurance group Zurich has accused financier Lex Greensill, steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta and certain of their companies of a “conspiracy” to deceive its underwriters and create sham debts....
...The “tempo of questions” from asset managers was “rising quite rapidly” as the go-live date for T+1 in the US nears, said Gerard Walsh, head of client solutions, banking and markets at Northern Trust....
...Lloyd’s of London has agreed with its landlord Ping An to stay at its One Lime Street headquarters until at least 2035, in a mark of commitment to in-person trading at the heart of the City’s insurance district...
...Howden, the UK insurance broker, has secured £500mn of insurance capacity from a group of Lloyd’s of London firms for a newly launched division that aims to turn tech start-ups into mini underwriters....
...GXO is offering 605p a share in cash, valuing the company’s equity at £762mn....
...Retailer Asos, drinks maker Fevertree and polling company YouGov are among the UK companies with halted stocks....
...Lloyd’s of London and Arch Insurance are listed as representative defendants on behalf of the multiple insurers on the policies....
...Rishi Sunak has said the “science itself was not certain” among the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies [Sage], which advised the UK government during the pandemic....
...At present, a company can make a donation to a UK political party so long as it is registered with Companies House and carrying out some business in the UK, even if the gift is larger than the sum of money...
...The comments came after X’s global government affairs team posted that it “has been forced by court decisions to block certain popular accounts in Brazil”....
...It’s yin and yang — in order to appreciate the light, there has to be a certain degree of darkness....
...Lloyd’s of London has pledged $50mn to global development projects, as part of a programme aimed at addressing lasting inequalities from the transatlantic slave trade that it enabled....
...Cara Spinks Head of Insurance Consulting, OAC, London EC2, UK...
...Aviva is to return to the Lloyd’s of London specialist insurance market for the first time in more than two decades after it announced the £242mn acquisition of Probitas....
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