The Singaporean business gained in prominence with the carrier’s decision earlier this year to shutter its operation in Lloyd’s China and its Sydney operation.
It’s Halloween and the (re)insurance industry is running scared. But the ghastly sounds are not the groans of ghouls or the shrieks of spectres. Instead, it is the moaning and wailing of underwriters astonished at the latest vast liability award.
Politics is dominating much of the news agenda on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, it is the continuing issues arising out of Brexit, while in the US, we are now some 13 months from a presidential election and the debates are heating up.