Latest London Headlines
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People & Places
Dec 19 2005 // Clint Bothwell Clint Bothwell has been named Southeast regional president for Harleysville Insurance and will work in its new Atlanta regional office. The company also named other regional field organization leaders as it...
People
Dec 18 2005 // Clint Bothwell has been named Southeast regional president for Harleysville Insurance and will work in its new Atlanta regional office. The company also named other regional field organization leaders as it realigned the...
People & Places
Dec 5 2005 // Ken North Frost Insurance reported that Ken North joined its Fort Worth, Texas, office as president of the company’s Dallas region. North has 30 years of experience in the insurance industry. Ann Wilson Frost...
News Briefs
Dec 4 2005 // Willis Expands in China, Latin America: In a breakthrough agreement, global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings Limited, has received written approval from the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) to increase...
Dec 4 2005 // Burns & Wilcox, a national specialty insurance managing general agency, has promoted Wayne Bates to director of the company’s Special Risk Division (SRD), International and promoted him to associate vice...
Laker Appointed Assistant VP of ACORD in London
Dec 2 2005 // International standards provider ACORD announced the appointment of Roy Laker as Assistant Vice President, London Market. His “role will be to coordinate the activities in the London market of ACORD’s various...
Lord Levene Urges U.K. Reinsurers to Support Changes in U.S. Trust Fund Collateral Requirements
Nov 29 2005 // Lloyd’s Chairman, Lord Levene, has called on the London market’s reinsurers to play their part in European efforts to remove the current “inappropriate system” of collateralisation requirements in...
James Discusses Challenges Facing Lloyd’s at Xchanging Conference
Nov 18 2005 // In a speech on Nov. 17, given at a conference sponsored by insurance service provider Xchanging, Julian James, Lloyd’s Director of world-wide markets, stressed that the London market faced continuing challenges in...
IFSL Report Notes 15% Decline in London Market Premiums in 2004
Nov 17 2005 // A report from International Financial Services, London (IFSL) notes that gross premiums on the London Market fell 15 percent in 2004 to £21.7 billion ($37.3 billion) According to a new edition of IFSL’s Insurance...
Burns & Wilcox Names Bates to Special Risk Division
Nov 16 2005 // Burns & Wilcox, a national specialty insurance managing general agency, has promoted Wayne Bates to director of the company’s Special Risk Division (SRD), International, as well as elevated him to associate vice...
Best Rates London General ‘B++’
Nov 14 2005 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has affirmed the financial strength rating of “B++” (Very Good) of the U.K.’s London General Insurance Company Limited (LGI), which is ultimately owned by Aon Corp., with a...
RI3K to Expand Service Platform to Commercial Lines
Nov 9 2005 // London-based RI3K has announced that by the end of this month it will expand its electronic trading platform services to certain commercial lines. The company said it will initially handle International Property, North...
Duane Morris and Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft Law Firms to Merge
Oct 31 2005 // Duane Morris LLP and Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft LLP have entered into a definitive agreement to merge under the name of Duane Morris. The merger will be effective Jan. 1, 2006. Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft is...
Prettejohn Stresses Underwriting Discipline, Reforms in Keynote Speech to ACORD Forum
Oct 21 2005 // Lloyd’s CEO Nick Prettejohn, in what may be his last major address as Lloyd’s CEO (See IJ Web site Oct. 17 and 18), told those assembled for the ACORD Forum in London that underwriting discipline continues to...
London American Risk Specialists, Inc. Announces Formation of Social Services Underwriting Department
Oct 21 2005 // Houston, TX – London American Risk Specialists, Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas is pleased to announce the formation of a Social Services Underwriting department based out of the Dallas, Texas office. Mike...
Mullens to Head Social Service Team at London American
Oct 18 2005 // Texas-based London American Risk Specialists Inc. announced that Mike Mullens joined the company as departmental manager of its social service facility team. With 18 years’ of experience in the industry, Mullens most...
Sep 19 2005 // Saylor & Hill has announced that three senior associates of the firm have been promoted to principal. Tim Sweeney, Kevin Mirsky and Chris Williams, each of whom has worked for the firm for more than a decade, will...
XL Adds 5 Experts to London Fine Art & Specie Team
Sep 16 2005 // XL London Market Ltd. [XLLM], a unit of Bermuda’s XL Capital Ltd., has announced the appointment of Michael Moss, David Scully, Clare Pardy, Susie Collier and Mark Bosshard to its London-based Fine Art & Specie...
