Lloyd's/London Market

London Markets: Liberty Appoints Makes New Marine Appointment

Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of the Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, is to expand its Ports and Terminals offering with the addition of Charlie Bragg to its Marine Liability team. Bragg joined Liberty Specialty Markets […]

Insurance Brokers

Marine Insurance News: Thomas Miller Acquires Zeller Associates

Thomas Miller, the international provider of market leading insurance services, announces the agreement to purchase the Managing General Agency and Insurance Services operations of specialist insurance services Group, Zeller Associates. Zeller Associates is an international […]

Flood Insurance

RMS Estimate Costs of Typhoon Jebi at over US $3 Billion

RMS, a global risk modelling and analytics firm, has estimated that the insured loss for Japan from Typhoon Jebi will be between USD$3 billion and $5.5billion (¥340 to ¥620billion). This estimate is based on analysis of […]

Lloyd's/London Market

Munich Re Expands Underwriting Team

Munich Re Specialty Group Ltd. (MRSG) of London is pleased to announce two additions to lead its expanding underwriting team. Steven Weiss has assumed the role of Senior Vice President/Chief Underwriting Officer of Ocean and […]

Lloyd's/London Market

BIBA Launches New Drone Insurance Product for UK Market

More drones are being used for commercial reasons than ever before; building site safety and inspection, post-fire or flood investigation and photography of course. Now here’s some useful news for any company looking to cover […]

Lloyd's/London Market

Lloyds of London News: Lonmar and Ropner To Merge

Leading independent Lloyd’s brokers, Lonmar Global and Ropner Insurance confirm the merger of the two businesses with effect from 31 July 2018. Lonmar and Ropner are both long standing, highly respected Lloyd’s brokers and are […]

Insurance Regulation

Compliance News: UK P&I Club Moves From Paper to Online Exams

Laura Grant, Claims Executive at UK P&I Club, discusses the recent changes to the P&IQ Exam and explains why it holds such merit for those entering the industry: “Speaking as a claims handler who did […]

Global insurance trends

Marine Insurance: Lessons Learned from Ship Transfer Oil Spillage

Some news from the UK P&I Club; Senior Loss Prevention Executive, David Nichol at UK P&I, discusses the lessons learnt from a recent incident involving the failure of a cargo hose, resulting in an oil spill: […]