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Motion Specialty Launches Lloyd’s MGU, Founded by Former Hiscox Executives
May 20 2025 // Motion Specialty has been approved as a Lloyd’s of London coverholder, founded by former Hiscox executives Dan Alpay and Alex Kickham. The business writes on behalf of Lloyd’s Syndicate 1301, managed by Inigo...
Lloyd’s Has ‘Laser Focus’ on Oversight of Coverholders to Proactively Avoid Market Risk
May 16 2025 // Lloyd’s has “a laser focus” on the oversight of delegated underwriting authorities to make sure these facilities do not drag down the market in the same way that poor management of managing general agents...
Lloyd’s Loses Bid to Avoid $800K in Prejudgment Interest
May 9 2025 // Lloyd’s of London has been told it must pay an extra $800,000 in prejudgment interest on a $2.5 million building fire loss payment to a community bank that it had wrongly denied coverage. A three-judge panel of the...
Lloyd’s Promotes Chief of Markets Tiernan to CEO, Succeeding Neal
May 8 2025 // Lloyd’s, the re/insurance marketplace, announced that Patrick Tiernan has been appointed as chief executive officer by the Council of Lloyd’s, succeeding John Neal. Tiernan will begin his tenure as...
Tech Update: Lloyd’s Backs BreachBits; ZoJacks Prevents Water Claims; Eagleview Expands Drone Options
Apr 24 2025 // Washington, D.C.-based BreachBits has received an investment of an undisclosed amount from Lloyd’s in what is the London-based global insurance marketplace’s third strategic innovation investment from among...
Premium Growth Is Good but Disciplined Growth Is Better: Lloyd’s Execs Say
Apr 21 2025 // Lloyd’s executives said the market has continued to demonstrate its value to stakeholders by delivering 6.5% premium growth while maintaining underwriting discipline. Lloyd’s saw a continuation of positive...
Lloyd’s Broker Charged Over Alleged Ecuador Bribes
Apr 17 2025 // UK fraud cops have charged an insurance broker with bribery, after a four-year probe into alleged corruption involving state-run insurance contracts in Ecuador. The Serious Fraud Office accused United Insurance Brokers...
Premium Growth Is Good but Disciplined Growth Is Better: Lloyd’s Execs
Mar 25 2025 // The Lloyd’s executives said the market has continued to demonstrate its value to stakeholders by delivering 6.5% premium growth while maintaining underwriting discipline. Lloyd’s saw a continuation of positive...
Lloyd’s Register to Sell Modern Tower and Return to Victorian HQ
Mar 21 2025 // Lloyd’s Register, the maritime society formed in a London coffee house in 1760, has put its modern glass headquarters up for sale as it prepares to move back into the property built to house it more than a century...
Lloyd’s Said It Will Lose $2.3B From LA Wildfires
Mar 12 2025 // Lloyd’s this week said it will lose $2.3 billion from the Los Angeles wildfires in January, adding to the number of companies that have paid out more than $1 billion in losses from the catastrophe. The company...
Price Forbes Re Taps Aon’s Power for Alternative Risk and Capital Solutions; AXA XL Promotes Kilshaw as Head of Broker Mgmt., Alternative Distribution, UK & Lloyd’s
Mar 3 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Price Forbes Re and AXA XL. A summary of these new hires follows here. Price Forbes Re (PF Re) announced the appointment of Sherman Power to the newly...
Specialty Re/Insurer Convex to Enter Lloyd’s With Syndicate 1984
Feb 14 2025 // Convex Group Ltd., the international specialty insurer and reinsurer, announced it has received in-principle approval to launch Lloyd’s Syndicate 1984, which will commence underwriting in April 2025. Convex said it...
People Moves: Lloyd’s Promotes Cliff to CFO, Succeeding Keese; Ryan Re Appoints BMS’ Ryan as EVP to Lead Strategic Business Development
Jan 30 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Lloyd’s and Ryan Re. A summary of these new hires follows here. Lloyd’s Promotes Cliff to CFO, Succeeding Keese Lloyd’s, the insurance...
Digital Lloyd’s Syndicate Ki Becomes Separate Company Within Fairfax Group
Jan 24 2025 // Ki, the Lloyd’s digital follow platform, announced it completed the separation from its parent company, Fairfax Group, becoming a standalone subsidiary on Jan. 1, 2025. Ki was created in 2020 and started writing...
People Moves: Lloyd’s Names AIG Veteran Baugh as Council Member; White Bear Managers Taps Former Castel Bloodstock Underwriters Woodward and Long
Jan 16 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Lloyd’s and White Bear Group. Details of these new hires follows here. Lloyd’s Appoints AIG Veteran Baugh as New Council Member, Succeeding...
Lloyd’s Syndicate AEGIS London Launches Portfolio Solutions Division
Jan 16 2025 // Lloyd’s syndicate AEGIS London announced the creation of a new Portfolio Solutions division that will focus on following third-party underwriting expertise in the London market. Led by respected underwriter Richard...
Lloyd’s CEO Neal Appointed Aon CEO of Reinsurance, Chairman of Climate Solutions
Jan 8 2025 // Insurance broker Aon plc announced the appointment of John Neal as global CEO of Reinsurance and chairman of Climate Solutions, effective following the conclusion of Neal’s notice period at Lloyd’s of London...
People Moves: AXIS Taps Chubb’s Farrup to Lead Global Mkts, Succeeding Gregory; Agile’s Lloyd’s Syndicate Hires AXA XL’s Hughes for London Marine Operation
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,...
ConnectUW Holdings Opens for Business at Lloyd’s
Dec 17 2024 // ConnectUW Holdings, the parent company of Connect Underwriting and other specialist reinsurance MGAs, announced it will take ownership of Lloyd’s box number 356 from Dec. 23, 2024. Situated in the company market...
Lloyd’s of London Trade Body Examines Planned Conduct Overhaul
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...
