October 2003/1

The militant Lloyds Names Association (LNA) will attempt to recover up to £100mn from the Central Fund for what it describes as Lloyd's failure to adequately regulate the market, The Insider has learned. The move follows this summer’s landmark judgment

Mike Hammond the former chief executive of broker Marsh's UK operations is to join rival Jardine Lloyd Thompson, it was revealed last month. Staff at JLT were told of the move by senior management and the news ended months of speculation over Hammond's

Embattled UK insurer Royal & Sun Alliance breathed a corporate sigh of relief this month after its £1bn rights issue went through with 92 percent of the 1.3bn new shares subscribed for by existing shareholders at 70p each. Although heavily discounted

Controversial compulsory buyouts of Names on Lloyd's Syndicates look set to hit the headlines once again after a 3 October Court of Appeals hearing permitted a claim for Judicial Review against Lloyd's to proceed - a process that could challenge the Socie

Silverstein and Swiss Re posturing continues but patience wears thin The war of words between parties in the World Trade Center (WTC) insurance dispute continues to rage, despite the growing clamour for resolution of costly legal proceedings that conti

'Unreliable' evidence of veteran Lloyd’s underwriter ends accusations of negligence Coutts, the royal bankers, has been exonerated in a legal battle about whether it should have told a Lloyd's syndicate that its managing agents had not opened an Indepe

Heath's has settled much of its film finance exposures following the opening submissions in a critical High Court trial this month. The so-called "Phoenix" trial promised to set a marker for a series of multi-million dollar disputes involving insurance ba

Personal accident specialist Jonathan Thomas is set to become the active underwriter of Creechurch's merged syndicates, if Lloyd's franchise performance director Rolf Tolle approves the move.

As long as average CEOs are paid as if they were superior CEOs, the issue of executive overcompensation won't go away. Where CEO pay is out of alignment with long-term corporate results, shareholders will not remain complacent. How, during the past two de

CNA Financial Corporation became the latest insurance Group to exit reinsurance when revealing that it has sold the renewal rights, together with much of its under-performing reinsurance book, to Folksamerica Reinsurance Company, a unit of Bermudian based

Followers of US tort reform developments were teased this month with the prospect of a real breakthrough, as Republican Senator Bill Frist stepped in to rescue stalling asbestos talks, negotiating a new deal between insurers and industrial defendants over

October was another eventful month for beleaguered Lloyd's insurer GoshawK, yet its future looks no less certain. Chief executive Chris Fagan denied suggestions that the management were considering a buy-out - telling The Insider “there is no truth in