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Lloyd's appoints Luke Savage as new finance director
Lloyd’s has announced the appointment of Luke Savage as its new finance director, responsible for finance and risk management.
Lloyd's sets electronic slip deadline for binding authorities
Lloyd’s today announced that slips for all placements of binding authorities will need to comply with London Market Principles standards from the start of 2005.
Lloyd's venture in regulation first
Lloyd's Names will be able to trade their investments for the first time after members' agent Hampde...
Appointment at Devonshire Claims
Services Ingrid Karhammer has joined Devonshire Claims Services' specialty lines division, where she...
What the papers said this week
Daily Mail The wash-out at Wimbledon on the first Wednesday at the All England Championships last w...
Sporting clubs get specialist employers’ liability
Sports underwriter, Sportscover UK, has completed development of what it claims is the first sports specific employers’ liability facility in the UK.
ATE funder looks to expand under Pittman
Red Sands, the Gibraltar-based after-the-event insurer set up late last year by Capricorn Associates...
Pender Insurance is being sued
Pender Insurance, Cable & Wireless's closed insurance captive, is being sued by Australia Japan Cabl...
Pender in court over alleged unpaid business interuption claim
Telecommunications network Australia Japan Cable has sued Pender Insurance Limited, the former Cable & Wireless captive, for damages following its refusal to cover an insurance claim made in 2001 for loss of part of its cable network during construction.
Canopius Managing Agents appoints non-executive directors
Canopius Managing Agents, the London-market insurer and reinsurer, has appointed Cees Schrauwers and...
Markel sets sights on extreme sports
Risk Report
Equitas results show strengthened reserves
Equitas, which was set up to reinsure and run off the 1992 and prior years’ non-life liabilities of Lloyd’s of London syndicates, has announced its financial resultsfor the year ended 31 March 2004.
London market insurer appoints former Aviva head as director
Canopius Managing Agents, the London market insurer and reinsurer, has appointed Cees Schrauwers and Jock Birney as non-executive directors.
The Lloyd's Market Association appoints Bill Rendall
The Lloyd's Market Association has appointed Bill Rendall as its new head of underwriting and claims...
LMA appoints first underwriting and claims head
The Lloyd’s Market Association has appointed Bill Rendall as its new head of underwriting and claims.
Weather - Scientists predict California earthquake for 2004
A group of scientists from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) has provoked controver...
Leeds calls for young achiever nominations
The Insurance Institute of Leeds has announced it will be launching a new initiative for 2004, the Y...
Kinnect meets latest standards for data transfer
Kinnect, the Lloyd's-backed messaging system to support electronic placing of risks, is one of the f...
Penny Black's insurance week
Penny hears SVB held a soiree on the Orient Express last week for analysts and customers that proved...
Making the switch
Health Report
Canopius eyes share of 1861 marine book
Lloyd's managing agent Canopius has revealed it hopes to capture 40% of Marlborough Syndicate 1861's...
Lloyd's continues its commitment to electronic trading
By 2007, 70% of Lloyd’s transactions should be processed on an electronic infrastructure according to Iain Saville, head of business reform at Lloyd’s and chair of Kinnect. Speaking at the Acord/Loma Forum in America he said that this was his own…
ri3k wins Acord awards
ri3k, the reinsurance trading platform, has received three 2004 Acord awards: Industry Leadership for Straight Through Processing, Early SOAP Framework Adopter and Certification.
Appointment at Canopius Managing Agents
Lloyd’s insurer Canopius Managing Agents today announced the appointment of Joyce Webb as divisional marine underwriter.