October 2001/1

In the weeks that followed the USA attacks The Insurance Insider published a daily e-mail update of events and information as they unfolded - an edited version follows......

Every summer, four competing publications produce what they claim are the definitive guides on Lloyd’s syndicates’ performances. These guides - produced by the Association of Lloyd’s members, in association with AM Best; Chatset; Thomson and Moody’s -

User Pays - Lloyd's responds Dear Sir, Thank you for the opportunity to respond to your article “User Pays Revisited” in the June issue of The Insurance Insider. I apologise for the delay in responding. However, this does enable me to set out MSU's 200

Pressure to reveal gross losses builds as fears over reinsurance failure take hold in the London market In Hemingway's “The Sun Also Rises” the following exchange takes place: “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and

Premium levy increase for 2002 designed to increase fund to $1bn, but Lloyd's deny link to possible syndicate failures Lloyd's has responded swiftly to its downgrade by AM Best to A-, by announcing that its increasing the premium levies on all syndicat