How the ex-board were caught off guard by Covéa’s bloody executive overhaul

Peter Halpin cropped

Just days after giving a triumphant speech at the annual Swinton cocktail party, chief executive Peter Halpin (pictured above) and his board colleagues were summoned to a meeting in a Manchester hotel.

What happened next stunned the UK insurance industry and led to a bitter fallout that is now in the hands of lawyers.

Click here to read the full story in an exclusive Insurance Times investigation.

Read our timeline: Ten years of Swinton.