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#1 Lloyd’s Focuses on Delegated Authority Arrangements as Looming Market Risk
Oct 3 2024 // While the Lloyd’s market reported its best first-half profit in 17 years, it isn’t resting on its laurels. It is carefully monitoring areas where potential vulnerabilities have been identified. During a recent...
#2 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...
#3 Hard Market ‘Supercycle’ Likely to Be Prolonged: Lloyd’s CEO Neal
Sep 6 2024 // Now that the market has achieved a first-half profit of £4.9 billion with a combined ratio of 83.7—its best interim results in 17 years—does this mean the hard market cycle is ending? During a media briefing to...
#4 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...
#5 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...
#6 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...
#7 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...
#8 Inigo Owners Said to Weigh Options for Lloyd’s of London Insurer
Dec 4 2024 // The owners of Inigo Ltd. are exploring options for the British specialist insurance group including a potential sale, according to people familiar with the matter. The shareholders, which include buyout firm JC Flowers...
#9 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...
#10 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...
#11 London Defers Tallest Tower Decision Amid Neighbors’ Objections, Including Lloyd’s
Jul 3 2024 // The City of London Corporation deferred a vote on plans for a new 73-story office tower next to the Gherkin that’s set to become the tallest building in the historic financial district. The City Corporation’s...
#12 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...
#13 Geopolitical Conflict Could Cost Global Economy $14.5 Trillion Over 5 Years: Lloyd’s
Oct 10 2024 // The global economy could be exposed to losses of US$14.5 trillion over a five-year period from the threat of a hypothetical geopolitical conflict causing widespread disruption to global trade patterns and supply chains,...
#14 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...
#15 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...
#16 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,...
#17 Private Equity Firm Centerbridge Weighs Exit Options for £3 Billion Canopius at Lloyd’s
Jul 29 2024 // A consortium led by private equity firm Centerbridge Partners is exploring exit options including an initial public offering of Canopius Group in a deal that could value the Lloyd’s of London insurer at about £3...
#18 Apollo Launches Captive Syndicate at Lloyd’s
Jun 3 2024 // Apollo Syndicate Management Ltd., the Lloyd’s managing agent, announced the launch of the first captive syndicate to be launched under Lloyd’s revised captive syndicate model. The captive syndicate, which is...
#19 Lloyd’s of London Must Stop Supporting Fossil Fuel Expansion, NGO Says
Oct 10 2024 // The Lloyd’s of London market is undermining climate action and should impose binding rules to prevent insurers supporting fossil fuel expansion, NGO Reclaim Finance said on Wednesday. Some European insurers,...
#20 Clear Group Acquires Lilley Plummer Risks, Entering Wholesale Lloyd’s Broker Space
Oct 29 2024 // Clear Group, the UK independent insurance broker that is owned by Private Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, has entered the wholesale Lloyd’s broker space with the acquisition of Lilley Plummer Risks Ltd., a...
