Lloyd’s chairman Bruce Carnegie-Brown has proposed merging the Lloyd’s Council and the Corporation’s Franchise Board as it looks to streamline its decision-making.
Liberty Specialty Markets’ reinsurance arm, Liberty Mutual Reinsurance, has launched a reinsurance operation on the Lloyd’s Mexico platform to serve clients in Mexico and Central America.
Stephen Catlin and Paul Brand’s start-up Convex had hired Sharon Long as head of claims, according to sister publication The Insurance Insider.
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM) has appointed Paul Kunzer as head of its new trade credit offering for multi-buyer and excess of loss programmes.
With the UK construction industry experiencing mixed fortunes, appetite for underwriting trade credit risks is on the rise, but do market conditions match carriers’ expectations?
Marsh-JLT Specialty suggests movement on upstream energy rates is likely to be slight in 2019, but could the “gentle market upswing” described by Willis Towers Watson turn into a full-blooded push-back?
The offshore wind sector appears to be entering a new stage of its development as a number of countries seek to reduce their carbon emissions from conventional power generation via renewable sources of energy.
With the prospect of further claims from ageing infrastructure and defective new works, a hard construction market could be more than a flash in the pan
Central and Eastern Europe offers some tempting opportunities for the facultative market, if only it can stay in front of the treaty express, writes David Benyon
Eight years on from the Thai floods, property reinsurance rates on line have slid in a market characterised by overcapacity and short memories, finds Helen Yates
Despite political and economic problems, growing litigiousness, and a rising claims environment, South Africa retains a cordial, if arm’s-length, relationship with the London market, finds David Benyon
As capacity has bled from the A&H market in the wake of difficult conditions, those still writing the class are cautious about diagnosing a rapid recovery, finds Marcus Alcock
Present market conditions mean fac brokers need to be more than just ‘postboxes’ and work harder to understand clients’ risks, says Capsicum Re’s Malcolm Payton
The insurance market supertanker is slowly changing course, but more innovation and less duplication is needed to keep Lloyd’s relevant, argues Munich Re Syndicate’s Dominick Hoare
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