Aon sued by disgruntled shareholders. DANIEL & RAZIEL TAUBENFELD JT, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated (Plantiff) v AON CORPORATION, PATRICK.G.RYAN and HARVEY.N.MEDVIN (Defendants)

Neil Strong joins Willis after a hellish summer defending Aon’s practices in placing John Charman’s whole account reinsurance programme

(1) T&N LIMITED (formerly known as Turner & Newall Plc and Turner and Newall Limited) (In Administration) (2) the ASSOCIATED COMPANIES of T&N Limited identified in attached Schedules 1& 2 (Claimants) -and- (1) ROYAL & SUN ALLIANCE INSURANCE PLC

2002: CIGNA class action

2001: CIGNA: Workers' compensation carve out business

Enron surety contracts written by insurers

D&O - in the doldrums

2001: JP Morgan for and on behalf of Mahonia Litd and Mahonia Natural Gas Ltd v Liberty Mutual, Travelers Casualty & Surety Co, St Paul Fire & Marine, Continental Casualty Co, National Fire Insurance Co of Hartford, Fireman's Fund Insurance Co, Safeco Ins

2001: Preliminary Injunction Order

2001: Memo of Law

2001: Order To Show Cause

2001: Summons

2001: Jennifer Fraser Affidavit

2001: John McKenna Affidavit

2001: Ira A. Reid Affidavit

2001: Affidavit of service

2001: Bankruptcy Petition 1

2001: Bankruptcy Petition 2

2001: Bankruptcy Petition 3

2001: Bankruptcy Petition 4

2001: Aon’s Clients Hit by Laddering Litigation

"I think you'll accept I'm rather close to the action." There's a pause. "… er, so I think I'm going to be saying I'm going to pass on that. I'm sure you understand."

The Welsh,’ said the Doctor, ‘are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing,’ he said with disgust, ‘sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver.

The watch-towers, the armed guards and the razor-wire, the steady routine of inventive sadism, institutionalised corruption and coercive buggery; and the hero - endlessly resourceful, always self-contained, mute when necessary - swimming his way to...

The deep-fat fryer, the work-house pallor, the lank brown hair, the geyser of unrequited lust: rarely, if ever, have tortured origins been so authentically caught on celluloid.

There was horse head stew - "if you were lucky," remembers a recipient, "you got an eye" - and black bread. It was never enough, of course. "Somebody killed a guard dog somewhere along the line," adds the dissatisfied diner.

Uttering the word "fag" in Transatlantic company risks gross misinterpretation, as many a decent Briton has discovered. (Perhaps it was this that prompted Wilde's observation that here were two countries divided by a common language; he, after all...

The trumpet dangles in mid air, suspended on a piece of string from the ceiling of the Salvation Army hall. The boy moves towards it, keeping both his hands behind his back (as he has been bidden), aware of the challenge - to blow one note, clean and...

In the course of "Nature via Nurture", his breathtakingly erudite analysis of the influences which shape us, Matt Ridley tackled (amongst much, much else) the effects of family life on the development of individual personality.

Dog-lover, park stroller, selfconfessed friend of Peter Mandelson: these are arresting, specialist tastes, suggestive of a man who likes his spine to tingle with the breeze of adventure - perhaps all too understandably, when one considers the skeleton...

If ever a man took it on the chin (assuming that one can still use that expression in public), it was surely Edward 'Fruity' Metcalfe, MVO, MC, BA, late of Skinner's Horse.

Herr Hitler was abundantly capable of it (when the mood took him), so, too, was Reggie Kray (from time to time); Martin McGuinness is a current practitioner, as are Jeffrey Archer (albeit it in a grotesque, pier-end way), Anthony Charles Lynton Blair...

"People like you are filth, you're scum. You're no better than thieves, lying, f****** thieves. You'll happily take our money but when it comes to paying out..."

The farmhouse at Creston - remote from the countervailing influences of civilisation, but not too far from the Californian town of San Luis Obispo - was handily placed for communicating with Los Angeles.

The prison sentence was inevitable - and richly justified. Anyone even cursorily familiar with Westminster life - those, for example, whose work took them daily to the Abbey - knew that something distasteful lurked behind the veneer of orthodoxy...

Possession of a robust sense of humour is, of course, a pre-requisite for those who opt for an education at Oxford. But the university - reputedly home of lost causes - seems, in recent decades, to have taken its jokes to extremes.

There was no need for a prolonged period of comparative evaluation (asserted an armchair commentator, just before the last World Cup kicked off); the respective merits, styles and strengths of the Italian and English teams could, he insisted, be...

Modestly educated (he managed only a year at Eton), indecently rich, athletically unfaithful, charming, bombastic, selfassured and deliciously vulgar, Hugh Lowther, "The Yellow Earl", 5th Earl of Lonsdale, was (his brother-in-law concluded) "almost a...

The ring - emphatically engraved ‘AC’ - seems to have been ditched, but not the rest of the statement jewellery, the treasury of rocks masquerading as watch and cufflinks. The working routine’s the same, too: in early, the motor dumped in the multi...

"Ferocious buggery," noted Christopher Tyerman in his grippingly candid history of Harrow School, "was not the only sexual outlet for senior Harrovians." Indeed not: judging by the grunts of approbation that greet delivery of a trio of innocuous phrase...

Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Disraeli, WG Grace, Edward VII, Prince Michael of Kent, Mr "Ken" Bates, Noel Edmonds: is a pattern discernible in our island story (as told in the proud weave of its beards and their creators)?

Holy matrimony is never, of course, to be lightly undertaken, even by those sound in mind and pure in body. Even then, however, it is not without an inescapable degree of adventure, possibly risk.

If, as the bearded Sigmund had it, anatomy is destiny, it is surely only a matter of time before a fresh diktat emerges from Downing Street, urging that "Essence of Eckert" be bottled and distributed to mothers of new-born babies (two drops each...

Mr Kevin Keegan used occasionally (and may continue) to reflect on how lucky he was to have been plucked from the obscurity of the old fourth division, to play, instead, for Liverpool FC. There were, he insisted, many footballers who, though every bit...

Clammy under collar, a thick-set gentleman sips from his glass (the club chablis), appreciative of summer's breeze. Despite the heat, he remains cool - painstakingly cool - under pressure. His forensic talents are rare, honed in Her Majesty's service...

The alleyways ill-lit, the cobbles uneven underfoot, the air spiced with trouble: this was not territory for the faint-hearted (and not simply because Jeffrey Archer might be en route to one of his extra-curricular "stimulation sessions". Even those...

The name is etched on our consciousness like battery acid flushed into an open wound. Just uttering the name "Ritchie" releases the imagination's safety catch: irresistible country houses, rock star wives, the addictive kick of cordite on a boys'...

Even the aftermath of war (as various ingenu reporters are discovering) can be unsettlingly disagreeable: the ineffable dust (coating every surface, invading every aperture), the ugly blended scent of gangrene and excrement, the complete and utter...

As Reith lectures go, it was refreshingly different. Although some speakers deliver something lightly touched by wisdom, all too many of them unload a stale stream of banal political correctness. Happily, that was not an accusation which could be...

"If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be to start a religion." The free world has, of course, been plagued by spasms of inflation since L Ron Hubbard made his bracingly candid observation all those years ago.

"To abolish war, we must abolish its cause, which lies in human nature." Perhaps only the intellectually cretinous or psychologically crippled would dispute the validity of von der Golz's dictum - certainly not his fellow countryman, Rolf Tolle, who...

It was, if you remember, at the beach club, the impregnable enclave for the ruling East Coast caste, that young Campbell asked what Daddy did. Daddy stumbled as he attempted an answer. Mummy intervened: " . . . you didn't bake the cake, but every time...

It has recently become fashionable to consider the merits of the "Quiet Man" - so fashionable, in fact, that the trend appears to have leapt from Bournemouth to Bermuda (via Lime Street), with barely a pause for (silent) breath.

Those who fly by executive jet enjoy sundry exquisite privileges: freedom, for example, from the tyranny of the check-in queue (always fraught with dangers, like being obliged to stand in steamy proximity to travellers clad in man-made fibres); freedom...

The laugh is appreciative, uncensorious. "I knew there was something about him being in business, in that sort of leisure industry," says someone whom, for safety's sake, we'll call The Joker. It's a neat, modern phrase, "leisure industry" effortlessly...

Abrace of ostensibly similar - though ultimately disparate - images are called to mind by mention of the name David Margrett, chief executive of the (still private) HLF Group; both are in black and white. The first is inspired by one of last year's...

One of the consolations of election nights -spent, by perverse addiction, watching or listening to the progress of the psychological cripples and emotional inadequates who are prepared to stand for the Labour, "Liberal" Democrat or Conservative parties -

Off Pall Mall, down through Waterloo Place, nodding smugly at the Athenaeum (remembering FE Smith's bon mot, after he had been upbraided for routinely relieving himself there, while en route to the House of Commons: "Oh, it's a club, too, is it?") then...

Little can prepare the uninitiated or unbelieving for a visit to Lourdes, with its silent population of icons, thousand upon thousand of them, staring unblinkingly through glass shop fronts, as if one woman had been shrunken, mummified and endlessly...

There was something almost deliberately sacramental about the ritual: a basin, a sponge and a small towel being produced after the beating had been administered. Then, and only then, the victim was instructed to wash away the blood before pulling up...

Nothing, except schoolmastering - as Lady Gwendolyn Cecil once observed - is more narrowing than money-making. Paul Myners should, consequently, be cyclelane slim: not only has he devoted most of his working life to the (unequivocally successful)...

One of life's minor but consistently satisfying pleasures arises when reality is good enough to conform to one's own deeply cherished prejudices.

Electric gates and high perimeter walls are rarely things of exquisite beauty. They can, though, intimidate, which may possibly explain their appeal to John Charman, erstwhile group president and chief executive of Ace International, and who until...

"My own line, insurance, is a swindle, I admit, but it's an open swindle with the cards on the table." It is not often that one stumbles across such brutal candour - certainly not on the record. But here it is, a majestic definition, reeking of...

It would not be everyone's idea of dignity and decorum - still less fun - to spend an hour or two in close proximity to David Coleridge (his prosperous jowls set in rigid solemnity), or David Rowland (raw ambition temporarily moulded into the mourner's...

Morrison (observes Detterling, in Alms for Oblivion, the ten volume romanfleuve which was Simon Raven's finest achievement) has "got a lot of sh*t in his tanks". The remark is, of course, intended as one of approbation, not ensure: "Peter Morrison" is...

The closest a man ever comes to being an artist - according to Sir Peter Hall, theatrical panjandrum and sage - is when making love. Judged by his own precise criterion, Sir Pete is quite an artist, having four marriages and six children notched on his...

Towards the end of the war, survivors of Stalag Luft III - the POW camp that witnessed the Great Escape on the night of 23/24 March 1944 - embarked on an epic march, tramping west through the snow, their Wermacht guards acutely aware of the Soviet...

It is a congenital affliction, mapped out whilst the foetus grows snugly in the womb. In childhood, there are few obvious clues (save in the most savage of instances) to its virulence but, by adolescence, its pattern is pronounced; by adulthood, its...

The astrakhan coat, the corespondent shoes, the silvertopped cane, the top hat (rakishly worn), the voluptuous comfort of the Delorney Belville's back seats; and the face - soft, perhaps even pasty, but richly nourished: here, beyond all doubt, was a...

"It doesn't matter which/Conservative or Labour/As long as they are rich" - Betjeman's lines, from his poem excoriating Mammon in the pre-War world, might, perhaps, commend themselves to David Shipley. But, if so, there would be none of Betjeman's...

Dial 01730 827483, and you suffer the monotonous howl of the 'number unobtainable tone; it is, you are told on inquiry, a spare line - one which is no longer in service'. Yet, for all its current redundancy, the number still appears in Who's Who, in...

A stab of music from the organ, and the camera races in for a brief, sublime close-up of Peter Cook, resplendent in oblong glasses, peering down on the congregation below. So, if memory serves correctly, begins Bedazzled, a Sixties cinematic...

Lie prone, hugging an Arctic slab, feel the wind cut through industrial cloth, watch as your goggles crystallise with ice: it is then that you realise that you are nothing - absolutely nothing. Just to see this observation on the page hints at its...

Captain Grimes, with his false leg (“Boys respect that. Think that I lost it in the war. Actually. . . I was run over by a tram in Stoke-on-Trent”) and his propensity for “landing in the soup”; Mr Prendergast, once a vicar in Worthing, living...

It is not often, in the routine of metropolitan life, that one is bidden to meet a stranger at the Albert Memorial. But then it is not often that one is offered the chance of an insight into the life and times of the remarkable Rona Delves Broughton.

The voice is precise, incisive, clinical, needling each question into its target. Listening to Simon Goldblatt, QC, conducting a cross examination propels an image into the imagination, and fixes it there: it is that of the research scientist...

Perhaps it was the jam-making; perhaps the tidy little garden which bloomed with roses; perhaps the generosity, though this (as friends subsequently conceded) took eccentric form (the regular distribution of 32 copies of the Morning Star)...

“He wants to be Big Daddy,” explains a (female) observer. “He wants to be liked and he wants to be the best.” It is a noble ambition, one to which Grahame ‘Chilly’ Chilton, chief executive of Benfield since 1996, has dedicated himself with...

Mention the name Watson, and Englishmen everywhere (Taliban supporters excluded) instinctively conjure up images of 221b Baker Street, wherein a private detective with a narcotics habit is effortlessly patronising a doctor of tweedy middleage. But for...

The two boys’ behaviour could not be described as orthodox, nor could it be attributed to liturgical stimulation (despite the fact that it was taking place, in broad daylight, in the school chapel). It was scant, if any, consolation that they were...

The admission, when eventually it came, verged on the apocalyptic. Tie locked into the apex of the collar, as if in a bid to suppress emotions beneath his shirt, the penitent began to speak...

The beginning of the telephone call could only be described as unpromising. The secretary was sorry, she said, but there was no chance of anyone seeing Roger Borley that afternoon (“he’s leaving tonight on Concorde”). But after a brief consultation...

It's a demanding routine. Some of it is spent shooting, much of the rest in riding to hounds or (depending on season) thundering across the polo field (so invigorating to have a good, hard chukka). But there’s always work to be done - new plans...

The worthwhile jug of Bloody Mary, the fatted calf sizzling on the barbecue, the July sun - high over the copper beaches - warming the bodies of those cavorting around the pool: the scene was one of agreeable potential. A succession of grunts offered...

Little can be more potent than the heartfelt filial gesture. Think of John Kennedy Junior saluting the coffin at his father’s funeral or (for those who prefer their history lessons to be resolutely British) recall the description of Micky Mosley...

During what proved to be a very full summer, the Mayfair flat was the scene of abundant, restless adventure, some of it of an engagingly experimental nature (such a good idea to install the two-way mirror). But it was the weekends in the country...

The negligee - pink satin, beguilingly short - covered ‘the essentials’; it could not, however, disguise the fact that the arm holding the telephone bristled with dark hair (of a density rarely seen on a woman; not this side of Cracow, at any rate)...

The London upbringing, the precocious early talent, the capacity for self-awareness (which persuaded him to make the public admission that he was a “brazen romantic”), the passionate affair which simultaneously disturbed and enriched him, the honours...

Scorn, even derision, greeted the appointment in 2003. They were going down. The new bloke, with his interestingly blunt features and challenging haircut (category-C detention centre), would be powerless to halt the slide.

There were always sceptics. Even now there will be some who give the big fella no credit for what he’s accomplished. But he can take it. Consider the upbringing (indisputably humble), the conditioning (gruelling, seemingly eternal training), the...

THE moment tends to linger in the memory – not, of course, necessarily quite in the same bracket as Kennedy's assassination or the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, but undoubtedly somewhere not far behind, very possibly sharing the same hippocampal...

OVER the cobbles, up steps of honeyed sandstone (their contours sculpted by the footfall of centuries), through a couple of doors of institutional blue: it could scarcely have been described as an epic journey. But a glimpse inside the rooms beyond was us

THERE was the undeviating eye for human weakness; the talent (and appetite) for trading on greed and gullibility; the adoption of an appropriately pragmatic creed (“no questions asked”); the willingness to exploit new opportunities...

THE discordant notes over dinner were difficult to recognise as the prelude to the forthcoming symphony of abuse. Those glimpsing the couple in the restaurant...

IT WOULD seem to be a life of blemishless contentment, one which has yielded the full list of prizes: a substantial townhouse...

EVERYTHING was going to plan - the girls willing, attentive, and supple enough (in mind and body) to accede to some of his more recherché requests.

THE needlessness of it all is what lingers: a perfectly good career - legitimate and lucrative enough to satisfy the appetites of a well-balanced human being - abruptly unsettled, quite possibly jeopardised, all for the sake of a barrow-load of dollars.

THE crack addiction seems to be under control, which is encouraging, especially since decades of abuse appear to have left the memory remarkably unscathed...

IT WAS, of course, a difficult, febrile time, a time of shifting alliances and extreme allegiances. Unity Mitford sublimated her obsession with Adolf Hitler...

IT WAS, of course, a difficult, febrile time, a time of shifting alliances and extreme allegiances. Unity Mitford sublimated her obsession with Adolf Hitler...

THE SWARM arrived without warning, attracted (so it became obvious in retrospect) by the un-lidded jar of honey. Those of the wasps unable to lock their mandibles into the goo...

2003: Lloyd's insurers win Sahara cup dispute

2003: Athletico Madrid

2003: R+V

2002: Lord Levene letter to Lloyd's

2004: Erisa - Indictment

Dear Goshawk Shareholder, We are writing to you as the representative of certain investment funds (the 'Funds') holding 50,838,408 Ordinary shares in Goshawk Insurance Holdings plc which represents 28.9% of the outstanding share capital.

The Board of GoshawK Insurance Holdings Plc (“GoshawK” or the “Company”) notes the announcement made on 1 July 2005 by Phoenix Asset Management Partners Limited (“Phoenix”), which holds 28.9 per cent. of the outstanding share capital of the Company.

Richmond is a privately-owned UK company, which is a leading independent provider of IT solutions and services to the London insurance market, focused on the non-life sector. N.B. Due to the threat of legal action this PDF is temporarily unavailable.

Reply of plaintiff Starr International Co Inc to countercliams of defendant American International Group

AIG answer to plaintiff Starr International and counterclaims of defendant AIG

Complaint of plaintiff Starr International Co against defendant American International Group

Complaint filed by American Insurance Group in New York Supreme Court on 27 January 2006 against CV Starr subsidiary American International Aviation Agency

Injunction filed by American Insurance Group preventing CV Starr subsidiary Starr Technical from writing business temporarily.

R+V VERSICHERUNG vs RISK INSURANCE AND REINSURANCE SOLUTIONS November 2004 Judgment of Mr Justice Moore-Bick.

R+V VERSICHERUNG vs RISK INSURANCE AND REINSURANCE SOLUTIONS November 2005 Judgment on R+V's application to join Jean-Claude Chalhoub as a defendant.

R+V Versicherung vs Risk Insurance and Reinsurance Solutions Jan 2006 Judgement from Mrs Justice Gloster regarding disputed premium liabilities

Complaint in class action suit brought by investors against Fairfax Financial Holdings - Part 1

Complaint in class action suit brought by investors against Fairfax Financial Holdings - Part 2

Complaint filed by CV Starr against AIG employees alleging actions taken by the employees to "systematically destroy" CV Starr's business.

Sphere Drake defeats "dishonest" SCB in $250mn arbitrage trial

2003: Equitas boosts asbestos reserves by £400mn

2003: Goshawk open for offers

Spitzer v Aon (Bid-rigging and tying allegations - complaint immediately withdrawn following $190mn settlement)

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (Eliot Spitzer & Howard Mills) V AIG (Maurice Greenberg & Howard Smith)

2003: Sterling Cooke Brown - Judgment

2001: Silverstein complaint against ACE and XL over WTC exposures (later settled)

2002: Order granting Silverstein leave to appeal summary judgment

2002: Swiss Re v Silverstein

2001: Zurich files against Westfield

2001: Lloyd's WTC dispute with Aon

2002: Federal Reserve Bank of NY WTC economic costs report

2002: Court order allowing Swiss Re to intervene

2001: Swiss Re complaint over WTC losses

Aon WTC personal accident judgment