David Coleridge - an obituary
David Coleridge, who was chairman of Lloyd’s for two tumultuous years in the early 1990s, passed away on Boxing Day, aged 88.
Those two years, 1991 and 1992, saw Lloyd’s caught in the perfect storm of poor – often corrupt – underwriting practices, huge losses from disasters and natural catastrophes and the chaotic
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