July 2007/3

UK-listed broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc is suing three of its former energy brokers...

Lloyd's specialist broker Thompson Heath & Bond (THB) Group has recruited a new wholesale broking team from Heath Lambert Group.

It was only recently that a US judge was bemoaning the lack of case law on reinsurance broking commissions and then along comes Benfield Group suing rival Aon Re for $2.4m in damages...

Newman Martin and Buchan Ltd (NMB) has become the latest broker to launch a capital markets division, joining its larger competitors such as Benfield Advisory and Guy Carpenter’s investment banking specialty practice...

Lloyd's unique capital structure which allows double use of assets is its key to producing strong returns for investors, according to a recent study by Professor Tim Congdon.

US wholesale broker AmWINS Group, Inc has bought marine insurers The American Equity Underwriters, Inc, and refinanced its debt to fund further "strategic acquisitions".

Andrew Carrier, active underwriter of Kiln Ltd’s catastrophe Syndicate 557 and the reinsurance division of its Syndicate 510, has quit the Lloyd’s insurer.

Transaction allows US insurer to issue regulatory capital following natural cat losses

Canopius has become the latest Lloyd's insurer to reveal plans to reduce its capacity limit next year, following recent announcements from Hiscox plc and Kiln plc.

Liberty Syndicates - one of the largest Lloyd's (re)insurers - is set to end its search for a new CEO by appointing Nick Metcalf to the role, according to market sources.

Directors and related parties of a number of London market companies bought shares in the lead-up to the closed trading period ahead of interim results, despite the fall in specialty insurance stocks in June.

The heads of the GCFac team that defected to rival Integro Ltd in April have won a UK Court of Appeal judgment preventing former employer Guy Carpenter from suing them in New York.