July 2005/2

Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group (JLT) plc’s wholesale broker Lloyd & Partners announced on Friday (8 July) two key appointments to its expanding property team, with the arrival of Derek Hansen and Adrian Godlieb from rival Price Forbes.

Heath Lambert – the broker to London’s 2012 Olympics bid – had a double victory last week with news that it had also won a construction account from rival broker Aon following a tendering exercise.

Barbados headquartered Imagine Group confirmed last week that its president and founding chief executive Brad Huntington had stepped down from the organisation.

David Spiller has resigned from his position as CEO of Benfield Group’s International Division, the company announced in a statement to the London Stock Exchange last Thursday (7 July).

Jardine Lloyd Thompson plc has recruited the former chief executive of Guy Carpenter’s UK arm Keith Fenwick to the organisation, Insider Week can reveal.

Swiss reinsurer Converium has begun the search for a replacement to its chief executive Terry Clarke who stepped in earlier this year following the ousting of Dirk Lohmann in the wake of the company’s much publicised difficulties.

Nigel Barton’s greenfield insurance intermediary Oxygen Insurance Brokers has signed up its first heavyweight London market broking teams.

Hurricane Dennis swept into Florida over the weekend wreaking widespread devastation in its path. But despite following a similar trajectory to last year’s Hurricane Ivan, most experts predict the (re)insurance bill will be significantly lower than the...

Although the human cost of last Thursday’s (7 July) coordinated terrorist attack on London’s transport network was grave, the impact on the insurance industry is expected to be minimal, with most claims paid by UK government-backed mutual insurer Pool Re.