September 2009/4

The wide-ranging strategic review being undertaken by Lloyd's will be presented to its ruling body, the Lloyd's Council, at its monthly meeting in February 2010, The Insurance Insider can reveal.

Richard Ward, the chief executive of Lloyd’s of London, spoke out last week at the long-term damage being done to the insurance market by the UK's uncompetitive corporate tax regime.

Lloyd's intends to establish a pilot scheme for claims handling in 2010 that will focus on segmentation, Lloyd's CEO Richard Ward told the inaugural meeting of the London Market Claims Council last week.

PartnerRe shareholders have unanimously approved the company's proposed acquisition of smaller rival Paris Re...

Bermudian (re)insurer Ironshore's Specialty Casualty unit will now provide up to $25mn in capacity targeted to lead umbrella and excess layers...

The mighty Lloyd's Central Fund is facing exposure to the $269mn settlements that Willis made with US insurers Assurant and CNA to end litigation relating to their disastrous involvement in the PA LMX spirals of the mid-to-late nineties, The Insurance Ins

Lloyd's (re)insurer Kiln is to enter the space market after appointing Laurent Esquirol, former senior space underwriter at Scor, it emerged last week.

UK solicitors firms are seeing rate increases of between 10 and 20 percent at the 1 October renewal of their professional indemnity (PI) insurance contracts, according to leading brokers.

The outgoing chief executive of Bowring Marsh, Mark Gregory, is to become CEO of Axis Global's specialty lines division, The Insurance Insider revealed last week.

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation and the Bermuda Monetary Authority have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) committing both parties to work together to share information and co-ordinate regulatory activities.

Amlin scrums down for three-year European sponsorship deal; Crawford and Kennedys launch latest claims handlers’ fraud guide...

Nick Jones, the former Heritage Syndicate 1200 lead underwriter, is set to be reunited with Jim Hays, The Insurance Insider has learned.