January 2004/1

Peter Matson, the veteran Lloyd's underwriter, has joined SVB Holdings Plc after completing his notice period with former employer Brit. Matson formally joined SVB on the 19 January and will reunite with some of his former PRI Ltd colleagues, including fi

New Bermudian based (re) insurance group Quanta Capital is set to raise over $600mn in an initial public offering, despite being in existence for only matter of months. On the 24 December 2003, Quanta filed a Form S-1 registration with the US Securiti

Cavell Management services Ltd, the Norwich based run-off company recently acquired by former Eastgate duo Ken Randall and Alan Quilter, is set to win the contract to run-off GoshawK’s Syndicate 102. According to sources, after final presentations from a

Over 2000 policies have been issued from dubious insurer, despite warnings from The Insurance Insider last year, principally for employers’ liability. The UK regulator, the Financial Services Authority, (FSA) has warned the industry about CIC - the dub

Average syndicate grows to record size as Lloyd’s insurers get bigger. The trend for ever-larger trading units at Lloyd’s has continued with the average syndicate capacity size now £227mn, up from the previous record of £203mn last year. According