London Market Analysis
Briefing: Is Beazley plotting its route to success post-corona?
The insurer has been re-focusing its risk mix to prepare for any recession that follows the Covid-19 pandemic, and has already taken action that it hopes will reduce the impact of any future claims that arise as part of the anticipated economic downturn
The Big Question July/August 2020: What lines of business will harden or be most exposed following Covid-19?
In Insurance Times’s July/August 2020 issue, we ask the insurance market which business lines they thought might harden and which might be the most exposed following the coronavirus crisis.
The history (or mystery) of the broker remuneration debate
The debate recently resurfaced following a report from Mactavish which called out the broker model, but what is the history behind the debate?
Insurtech offering brokers and underwriters PPL alternative sees business boom during Covid crisis
With Covid-19 accelerating electronic placing in the insurance industry, insurtech Whitespace is on a mission to help brokers and underwriters smoothly transact as its platform business is soaring
Analysed: The Lloyd’s market’s best and worst underwriters
With three successive years in the red and a fourth year of underwriting losses seemingly on the way, the Lloyd’s market has faced some testing times of late.
Ki – the digital follow-only syndicate aiming to reduce the London Market’s expense ratio
Brit is taking a data-led approach to solving various pain points in the London Market in its latest partnership with Google Cloud
Briefing: Marsh, Aon, Guidewire, reinsurers - how the Covid crisis will greatly benefit them
The likes of Aon, Marsh, Guidewire and Accenture could be on the cusp of a golden opportunity
US businesses seek to use damage trigger for business interruption claim pay outs
With Lloyd’s underwriters heavily invested in the US domestic property market, could upcoming lawsuits impact the UK business interruption sector?
Inside the cyber market with Sayata Labs’s Kingsley Flynn
Flynn says the market is still dogged by past perceptions of how restrictive and confusing cyber policies were in the early days of the product coming to market
What does Aon’s purchase of Willis Towers Watson mean for brokers?
Coronavirus: will ‘notifiable disease’ status be a game-changer for insurance?
FCA takes aim at bad broker behaviour
City insurers brace as opioid crisis unravels
Victor Syndicate 2288 eyes new territories amid expansion
Is a MBO the way to go?
D&O market has to fight impulse for broad brush increases
How can the industry stamp out the harassment culture
Big Question November 2019: Which of Lloyd’s three initiatives is the most urgent to implement – underwriting, culture or technology? And why?
Brokers must take centre stage for risk management - Allianz
MGAs feeling the squeeze as capacity constricts
Can Lloyd’s three-frontal attack win the day?
Briefing: Higher Lloyd’s profits cannot mask scale of challenge
Underpriced Lloyd’s business – where is it now?
Catlin and Brand detail recipe for success with Convex
London Market News
Brit bottom line hurt by Covid-19 claims payouts
The insurer’s combined ratio went into negative territory in the first half of the year
Beazley set to shrink Lloyd’s presence post-Covid-19
Although the insurer’s chief executive thinks brokers benefit from communications on the trading floor, Beazley plans to deal with simpler risks virtually and reduce its physical presence at Lloyd’s
Lloyd’s delays Part VII Transfer
All European policies must be transferred out of London before the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020
Brit’s syndicate Ki taps former Marsh JLT Specialty veteran as new managing director
Brit’s follow-only digital Lloyd’s of London syndicate named Ki has appointed Dan Hearsum as its managing director.
