Lloyd's/London Market

Tania Patston Joins Aegis London Underwriting Team

Tania Patston has joined AEGIS London’s accident and health team as an underwriter. Tania joins from Travelers where she held a similar role. She reports to AEGIS London’s class underwriter for accident and health, Nick […]

Lloyd's/London Market

Sedgwick Completes Cunningham Lindsey Purchase

Sedgwick has finalized the purchase of global loss adjusting, claims management and risk solutions firm Cunningham Lindsey and its subsidiaries. The combined organization—including the subsidiaries of Sedgwick, Vericlaim and Cunningham Lindsey, with select exceptions—will move […]

Business

Richard Deguettes Joins Liberty Speciality as France GM

Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance, has appointed Richard Deguettes as General Manager for France. Based in LSM’s office in Paris, Richard will join the business in mid-May reporting to Kadidja Sinz, […]

Big Data

Lloyds Report on Sharing Economy is a Wake-Up for Insurance Industry

A few days ago, Lloyd’s, published a report called, “Sharing risks, sharing rewards: who should bear the risk in the sharing economy?”, analysing risk perceptions in a booming industry sector, which has seen the rise […]

Global insurance trends

UIB Launches Broker Business in Colombia

International (re)insurance broker UIB has launched a retail broking business in Colombia. The new company, UIB Seguros will be headed by CEO, Yolanda Guerra, reporting directly to Tony Dilley, CEO of parent company, UIB International. Dilley commented: “Colombia […]

Insurance Brokers

Insly Raises £2.2 Million Investment as it Goes For Growth

Insly, a cloud-based insurance platform, announces an investment of € 2.2 million led by Concentric and Black Pearls VC. Insly is a rising star in the global effort to bring the traditionally bureaucratic, paper based […]

Insurance & Reinsurance

London Market: AEGIS Syndicate Posts Healthy Results

AEGIS London has delivered a combined ratio of 99% in 2017 for Syndicate 1225 – this was 15% better than the result announced for the Lloyd’s market overall. At £462m, gross written premium was ahead […]

Insurance & Reinsurance

Sequel Partners Up with Agora Underwriting

Sequel, a leading provider of end-to-end software for insurance and reinsurance businesses, announced that Agora Underwriting has chosen Sequel Eclipse Underwriting to support its transition from a Special Purpose Arrangement (SPA) of Skuld Syndicate 1897 […]