 Lloyd’s Building, London (with the blue cranes). The Gherkin shaped Swiss Re Tower is in the background
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Lloyd’s reported a strong performance despite 2005 being the worst year on record for natural disasters. They reported under UK GAAP new accounting principles.
Financial highlights:
- balance sheet 2005: £10,998m (2004: £12,169m)
- gross premiums written 2005: £14,982m (2004: £14,614m)
- net claims of £3,309m from most severe hurricane season on record will be met with negligible impact on Central Fund
- market loss £103m (2004: Profit £1,364m)
- improvement in Lloyd's solvency ratio to 379% (2004: 300%)
- Underwriting loss £1.4bn (10% of stamp) [the US Property & Casualty business made a profit of £43.5m]
- Hurricane season USA gave rise to net loss of £3.3bn (gross loss c.£9.9bn)
- Increase in central resources for solvency purposes to £1,838m (2004: £1,663m)
- Number of Names: 2007 1,124 (2006 1,497)
Capital backing Several different pools of capital back the ability of Lloyd's to pay claims. These pools together are called "Lloyd's chain of security." - Premium trust funds. Premiums collected from customers are deposited in a trust fund which members cannot access until the dissolution of the annual venture. This trust fund is the first source of payment. If there is money left in the fund at the end of the venture's three year life, it is distributed to members as profit. At the end of 2004, total amount of premium trust funds equaled almost £22 billion.
- Funds at Lloyd's. Members have to deposit additional funds at Lloyd's in case that premiums do not cover claims and the venture ends up in a loss. At the end of 2004, total funds at Lloyd's equaled £9.6 billion.
- Personal wealth. Individual members (names) pledge an amount of their personal wealth to pay claims. As of the end of 2004, this category of personal wealth totaled less than £220 million, due to declining number of names.
- Central fund. Lloyd's levies a premium on all policies written and deposits the proceeds in a central fund that will pay claims if the members backing a policy go bankrupt and cannot meet their obligations. As of the end of 2004, central fund assets exceeded £550 million.
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History
The Subscription Room in the early 19th century. The market began in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse around 1688 in Tower Street, London. While Lloyd was only the proprietor of the coffeehouse, his establishment was a popular place for sailors, merchants, and shipowners and Lloyd catered to them with reliable shipping news and a variety of services. The shipping industry community frequented the place to discuss insurance deals among themselves. Just after Christmas 1691, the coffee shop relocated to Lombard Street, where a blue plaque commemorates its location. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (828x617, 102 KB) Summary Lloyds subsciption room as drawn by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin for Thomas Rowlandsons Microcosm of London (1808-11). ...
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This arrangement carried on long after Lloyd's death in 1713 until 1774 when the participating members of the insurance arrangement formed a committee and moved to the Royal Exchange as The Society of Lloyd's. The Exchange burned down in 1838 and, although rebuilt, many of Lloyd's early records were lost. In 1871, the first Lloyd's Act was passed in Parliament which gave the business a sound legal footing. The Lloyd's Act of 1911 set out the Society's objectives, which include the promotion of its members' interests and the collection and dissemination of information. By this time the business had become one of the pre-eminent insurers in the world. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...
The membership of the Society, which had been largely made up of market participants, was realised to be too small in relation to the market's capitalisation and the risks that it was underwriting. Lloyd's response was to commission a secret internal inquiry, known as the Cromer Report, which reported in 1968. This Report advocated the widening of membership to non-market participants, including non-British subjects and women, and to reduce the relatively onerous capitalisation requirements (which created a more minor investor known as a 'mini-Name'). The Report also drew attention to the danger of conflicts of interest. A conflict of interest is a situation in which someone in a position of trust, such as a lawyer, a politician, or an executive or director of a corporation, has competing professional or personal interests. ...
During the 1970s, a number of unrelated issues arose which were to have significant influence on the course of the Society. The first was the tax structure in the UK: capital gains were taxed at 40 percent (check), earned income was taxed in the top bracket at 83 percent, and investment income in the top bracket at 98 percent. Lloyd's income counted as earned income, even for Names who did not work at Lloyd's, and this heavily influenced the direction of underwriting: in short, it was desirable for syndicates to make a (small) underwriting loss but a (larger) investment profit. The losses were 98% funded by the taxpayer while the gains largely accrued to the Names; when Thatcher's government greatly reduced the top rate of income tax, the proportion of the losses paid by the Names increased astronomically. The investment profit was typically achieved by 'bond washing' or 'gilt stripping': buying the bond 'cum dividend' and selling it 'ex dividend', creating an income profit and a capital loss. Syndicate funds were also moved offshore, (which later created problems through fraud and self-dealing). In finance, a bond is a debt security, in which the authorized issuer owes the holders a debt and is obliged to repay the principal and interest (the coupon) at a later date, termed maturity. ...
Because Lloyd's had turned itself into a tax shelter, the second issue affecting Lloyd's was an increase in its external membership, such that, by the end of the decade, the number of passive investors dwarfed market investors. Thirdly, during the decade a number of scandals had come to light, including the collapse of the Sasse syndicate and the disgrace of Christopher Moran, which had highlighted both the lack of regulation and the legal inability of the Council to manage the Society.
Simultaneously with these developments, were wider issues: firstly, in America, an ever-widening interpretation by the Courts of insurance coverage in relation to workers' compensation in relation to asbestos-related losses, which had the effect of creating a huge, and initially unrecognised and then unacknowledged hole in Lloyd's reserves. Secondly, by the end of the decade, almost all of the market agreements, such as the Joint Hull Agreement, which were effectively cartels mandating minimum terms, had been abandoned under pressure of competition. Thirdly, new specialised policies had arisen which had the effect of concentrating risk: these included 'run off policies', under which the liability of previous underwriting years would be transferred, and 'Time and Distance' policies, whereby reserves would be used to buy a guarantee of future income.
In 1980, Sir Henry Fisher was commissioned by the Council of Lloyd's to produce the foundation for a new Lloyd's Act. The recommendations of his Report addressed the 'democratic deficit' and the lack of regulatory muscle.
The Lloyd's Act of 1982 further redefined the structure of the business, and was designed to give the 'external Names', introduced in response to the Cromer Report, a say in the running of the business through a new governing Council.
Immediately after the passing of the 1982 Act, evidence came to light, and internal disciplinary proceedings were commenced against, a number of individual underwriters who had siphoned sums from their businesses to their own accounts. These individuals included a Deputy Chairman of Lloyd's, Ian Posgate, and a Chairman, Sir Peter Green.
In 1986 the UK government commissioned Sir Patrick Neill to report on the standard of investor protection available at Lloyd's. His report was produced in 1987 and made a large number of recommendations but was never implemented in full.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Lloyd's went through the most traumatic period in its history. Unexpectedly large legal awards in US courts for punitive damages led to large claims by insureds, especially on APH (asbestos, pollution and health hazard) policies, some dating as far back as the 1940s. Many of these policies were designed to cover all liabilities not excluded on broadform liability policies. This article concerns asbestos-related legal and regulatory issues. ...
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Also in the 1980s Lloyd's barely escaped bankruptcy and was accused of massive fraud by several American states and the names/investors.
Some of the more high profile cases:
- Lloyd's withheld their knowledge of asbestosis and pollution claims until they could recruit more investors to take on these liabilities that were unknown to investors prior to investing in Lloyd's.
- Enforcement officials in 11 US states charged Lloyd's and some of its associates with various wrongs such as fraud and selling unregistered securities.
- Ian Posgate, one of Lloyd's leading underwriters was charged with skimming money from investors and trying to secretly buy a Swiss bank. He was latter acquitted.
'Recruit to dilute' It may be wondered how the current Members of Lloyd's could be liable to pay these historical losses. This came about as a result of the Lloyd's accounting practice known as 'reinsurance-to-close'.
Membership of a Lloyd's Syndicate was not like owning shares in a company. An individual "joined" for one calendar year only – the famous 'Lloyd's annual venture'. At the end of the year, the Syndicate as an ongoing trading entity was effectively disbanded.
It was very common for the Syndicate to re-form for the next calendar year with more or less the same membership and the same identifying number. In this way, a Syndicate could appear to have a continuous existence going back (in some cases) fifty years or more. But in reality it did not. There would have been fifty separate incarnations of the Syndicate, each one a unique trading entity that underwrote insurance for one calendar year only.
Claims take time to be reported and paid: so the profit or loss for each Syndicate took time to become apparent. Lloyd's practice was to wait three years (that is, 36 months from the beginning of the Syndicate) before 'closing' the year and declaring a result.
For example, a 2003 Syndicate would ordinarily declare its results at the end of December 2005. The Syndicate's members would be paid any underwriting profit during the early part of the 2006 calendar year, in proportion to their 'participation' in the Syndicate; conversely, they would have to reimburse the Syndicate during 2006 for their share of any underwriting loss.
Part of the result would include setting aside reserves for future claims payments; that is, reserves both for claims that had been notifed but not yet paid, and estimated amounts required for "incurred but not reported" claims. The estimation process is difficult and can be inaccurate; in particular, liability (or long-tail) policies tend to produce claims long after the policies are written.
The reserve for future claims liabilities was set aside in a unique way. The Syndicate bought a reinsurance policy to pay any future claims: the premium was the exact amount of the reserve. In other words, rather than putting the reserve into a bank to earn interest, the Syndicate transferred liability to pay future claims to a reinsurer. This was "reinsurance-to-close" – a transaction that allowed the Syndicate to be closed, and a profit or loss declared. Reinsurance is a means by which an insurance company can protect itself against the risk of losses with other insurance companies. ...
The reinsurer was always another Lloyd's Syndicate. In fact, it was nearly always the succeeding year of the same Syndicate. The members of Syndicate X in 2004 reinsured the future claims liabilities for members of Syndicate X in 2003. The membership might be the same, or it might not.
In this manner, liability for past losses could be transferred year after year until it reached the current Syndicate. A member joining a Syndicate with a long history of such transactions could – and often did – pick up liability for losses on policies written decades previously. So long as the reserves had been correctly estimated, and the appropriate reinsurance-to-close premium paid every year, then all would have been well. But in many cases this had not been possible. No one could have predicted the surge in APH losses. Therefore, the amounts of money transferred from earlier years by successive "reinsurance-to-close" premiums to cover these losses were insufficient, and the current members had to pay the shortfall.
(By contrast, within a stock company, an initial reserve for future claims liabilities is set aside immediately, "in year 1." Any deterioration in that initial reserve in subsequent years will result in a reduced profit-and-loss for the later year, and a consequently reduced dividend and/or share price for shareholders in that later year, whether or not those shareholders in the later year are the same as the shareholders in "year 1." Arguably, Lloyd's practice of using reserves in "year 3" to establish the reinsurance-to-close premiums should have resulted in a more equitable handling of "long-tail" losses such as APH than would the stock company approach. Nevertheless, the difficulties in correctly estimating losses such as APH overwhelmed even Lloyd's extended process.)
(For a fuller explanation of the annual venture, and the various means of reinsuring-to-close, see below.)
As a result a great many individual Members of syndicates underwriting long term liability insurance at Lloyd's faced financial loss, even ruin, by the mid 1990s.
It is alleged that, in the early 1980s, some Lloyd's officials began a recruitment programme to enroll new Names to help capitalise Lloyd's prior to the expected onslaught of APH claims. This allegation became known as "recruit to dilute"; in other words, recruit Names to dilute losses. When the huge extent of asbestosis losses came to light in the early 1990s, for the first time in Lloyd's history members refused or were unable to pay the claims, many alleging that they were the victims of fraud, misrepresentation, and negligence. The opaque system of accounting at Lloyd's made it difficult if not impossible for many Names to realise the extent of the liability that they personally and their syndicates subscribed to. Asbestosis is a chronic inflammatory medical condition affecting the parenchymal tissue of the lungs. ...
The market was forced to restructure. In 1996 the ongoing Lloyd's was separated from its past losses. Liability for all pre-1993 business was compulsorily transferred (by reinsurance-to-close) into a special vehicle called Equitas at a cost of over $21 billion and enormous personal losses to many Names. It was subsequently discovered that a bribe, described as an 'educational briefing', had been paid by Lloyd's to the California Insurance Commissioner in order that he should assist Lloyd's in preventing the prosecution of Lloyd's by the California State Attorneys Office for the sale of "unregistered securities" to US Resident Names or investors. Quackenbush then, using his office as Chair of the N.A.I.C (National Association of Insurance Commissioners) facilitated the approval of the Equitas entity. [1] Equitas is the general label given to a group of companies linked to Lloyds of London. ...
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The 'recruit to dilute' fraud allegations were heard at trial in 2000 in the case Sir William Jaffray & Others v. The Society of Lloyd's, and the appeal was heard in 2002. On each occasion the allegation that there had been a policy of 'recruit to dilute' was rejected: however, at first instance the judge described the Names as the innocent victims [...] of staggering incompetence and at appeal the Court found that representations that Lloyd's had a rigorous auditing system were false ([item 376 of the judgment:] [...] the answer to the question [...] whether there was in existence a rigorous system of auditing which involved the making of a reasonable estimate of outstanding liabilities, including unknown and unnoted losses, is no. Moreover, the answer would be no even if the word 'rigorous' were removed.) and strongly hinted that one of Lloyd's main witnesses, Murray Lawrence, a previous Chairman, had lied in his testimony ([item 405 of the judgment:] We have serious reservations about the veracity of Mr Lawrence's evidence [...].).
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Lloyd's then instituted some major structural changes. Corporate members with limited liability were permitted to join and underwrite insurance. No new "unlimited" Names can join (although a few thousand existing ones remain). Financial requirements for underwriting were changed, to prevent excess underwriting that was not backed by liquid assets. Market oversight has significantly increased. It has rebounded and started to thrive again after the World Trade Center attacks, but it has not regained its past importance as newly created companies in Bermuda captured a large share of the reinsurance market. A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly...
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Structure Lloyd's is not an insurance company. It is an insurance market of members. As the oldest continuously active insurance marketplace in the world, Lloyd's has retained some unusual structures and practices that differ from all other insurance providers today. Originally created as an unincorporated association of subscribing members in 1774 it was incorporated by the Lloyd's Act 1871, and is currently governed under the Lloyd's Acts of 1871 through to 1982.
Lloyd's itself does not underwrite insurance business, leaving that to its members (see below). Instead the Society operates effectively as a market regulator, setting rules under which members operate and offering centralised administrative services to those members.
Structurally Lloyd's is governed by the Council of Lloyd's, an 18 member body roughly equivalent to the board of directors of a company. The Council administers the Corporation of Lloyd's which runs the various services and administrative operations of Lloyd's. The Council delegates most of its day to day oversight roles, particularly relating to ensuring the market operates successfully, to the Franchise Board.
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Businesses at Lloyd's There are two classes of people and firms active at Lloyd's. The first are members or providers of capital, the second are agents, brokers, and other professionals who support the members, underwrite the risks, and represent outside customers (for example, individuals and companies seeking insurance, or insurance companies seeking reinsurance).
Members For most of Lloyd's history, rich individuals ("Names") backed policies written at Lloyd's with all of their personal wealth (unlimited liability). Since 1994, Lloyd's has allowed corporate members into the market, with limited liability. The losses in the early 1990s devastated the finances of many Names (upwards of 1,500 out of 34,000 Names were declared bankrupt) and scared away others. Today, individual Names provide only 10% of capacity at Lloyd's, with corporations accounting for the rest. No new Names with unlimited liability are admitted, and the importance of individual Names will continue to decline as they slowly withdraw, convert (generally, now, into Limited Liability Partnerships) or die. Limited liability (LL) is liability that is limited to a partner or investors investment. ...
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Managing agents Managing agents sponsor and manage syndicates. They canvas members for commitments of capacity, create the syndicate, hire underwriters, and oversee all of the syndicate's activities. Managing agents may run more than one syndicate.
Members' agents Members' agents coordinate the members' underwriting and act as a buffer between Lloyd's, the managing agents and the members. They were introduced in the mid 1970s and grew in number until many went bust; there are now only three left (Argenta, Hampden and LMAS (which has no active names). It is mandatory that unlimited Names write through a members' agent.
Recent results have benefited from tougher underwriting standards imposed by the Franchise Board and terms and improved terms and conditions following the World Trade Center disaster in 2001.
Lloyd's brokers Outsiders, whether individuals or other insurance companies, cannot do business directly with Lloyd's syndicates. They must hire Lloyd's brokers, who are the only customer-facing companies at Lloyd's. They are therefore often referred to as 'intermediaries'. Lloyd's brokers shop customers' policies among the syndicates, trying to obtain the best prices and terms.
Integrated Lloyd's vehicles (ILVs) When corporations became admitted as Lloyd's members, they did not like the traditional structure. Insurance companies did not want to rely on the underwriting skills of syndicates they did not control, so they started their own. An integrated Lloyd's vehicle is a group of companies that combines a corporate member, a managing agent, and a syndicate under one ownership. Some ILVs allow minority contributions from other members, but most now try to operate on an exclusive basis.
Current market structure As of 31 January 2006, Lloyd's of London had the following structure: [2] is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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- Capital providers
- 55 corporate members
- 1,497 individual Names with unlimited liability
- 468 individual members with limited liability
- Market participants
- 44 managing agents
- 62 syndicates
- 164 Lloyd's brokers
Underwriting ventures Lloyd's syndicates work on the basis of a three year accounting cycle (triennial accounting). Each calendar year a Lloyd’s syndicate starts a new insurance venture with a clean book containing no assets or liabilities. In the first year of account, the venture accepts premiums from customers to insure risks for one year (the annual venture). At the end of the year, the venture stops writing new business, but continues to exist to pay claims for the next two years of account. After three years (one year of writing and two years of paying claims) the venture is closed. Its books are balanced, any profits left over after paying out claims and reinsurance-to-close are paid out to members. Each year's venture stands on its own with regard to paying claims and collecting premiums.
Unlike most businesses, accountancy at Lloyd's does not assume the "Going concern" basis, because it is expected that each venture will last for three years and then end. The origin of this accounting cycle was in the shipping business. Syndicates would insure a ship before the start of its voyage, and the three-year period was considered to be the amount of time that it took a ship to sail around the world.
Since the 1930s, many Lloyd's syndicates branched out to underwriting policies providing coverage for general liability, and excess liability beyond that covered by other insurance policies, as well as providing upper layers of reinsurance. Comprehensive unrestricted general liability policies were very popular in the US market from the late 1940s to mid 1970s. These types of policies involve time spans longer than the finite three years of a Lloyd's venture. Insurance policies that cover liabilities that may extend for many years are called long-tail policies because the "tail" of the liability can extend out for many years into the future (for instance, subsidence damage is often not detected until the relevant building is subjected to a structural survey, which typically may not occur for many years until it is about to be sold; it is only at this point that the insured person contacts the insurer, who then has to estimate the cost of rectifying the damage. See also "Asbestosis" below). Short-tail insurance relates to liabilities that are notified and settled quickly (for instance motor vehicle insurance and domestic house contents insurance). Reinsurance is a means by which an insurance company can protect itself against the risk of losses with other insurance companies. ...
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Before an insurance venture can be closed at the end of three years, its liabilities must be balanced by paying out all outstanding claims which have not been paid, and making provisions (setting aside reserves) for any unpaid claims and for any incurred but not reported losses (IBNRs) which may occur in the future. An example of an IBNR loss is a lawsuit filed in the future seeking damages for business activities that occurred in the insured time period. Another would be relatively minor damage to a salesman's leased company car that was sustained during the period of insurance but not indentifed until he returned the car at the end of the lease (because he preferred to live with the damage than to be without the car for the time it was being repaired).
Inside the Lloyd's system, potential incurred but not reported losses are reserved for and transferred (reinsured) at the time of closing by estimating the potential total future liability, and then paying a one time premium for a reinsurance-to-close policy(s) (RITC) which transfers the risk. Typically, the reinsurer is the following underwriting year of the same syndicate, but it may be with another syndicate(s). The transfer of residual capital as RITC premiums from year to year and venture to venture ensures solvency for future liabilities.
Long-tail policies are thus rolled over from year to year and in theory there is always capital available from accumulated RITC premiums to pay claims. It also means that the largest insurance risk typically underwritten by a syndicate are its own reinsurance liabilities for previous years. If the premiums paid for reinsuring previous years were too low, then the syndicate may become undercapitalised thereby forcing it to rely on the unlimited liability of the Names. This follows from Lloyd's practice of policyholders always being paid in full irrespective of any financial difficulties individual Names might have.
The structure of triennial accounting and RITCs is considered by some to be ill-suited to modern business. The root of the problem is the difficulty of forecasting the results of risks which have a long duration (or 'tail'). The system of RITC can convey enormous amounts of latent liability onto the shoulders of latter year investors. If the full nature of the liabilities is not understood and cannot be quantified, then it is impossible to reserve for it properly. This can result in highly subjective opinions determining the outcome of different years of account.
Asbestosis The classic example of long-tail insurance risks is asbestosis claims. A worker at an industrial plant may have been exposed to asbestos in the 1960s, fallen ill 20 years later, and claimed compensation from his former employer in the 1990s. The employer would report a claim to the insurance company that wrote the policy in the 1960s. However because the insurer did not understand the full nature of the future risk back in the 1960s, it and its reinsurers would not have properly reserved for it. In the case of Lloyd's this resulted in the bankruptcy of thousands of individual investors who indemnified (via RITC) general liability insurance written from 1940s to the mid 1970s for companies with exposure to asbestosis claims. Asbestosis is a chronic inflammatory medical condition affecting the parenchymal tissue of the lungs. ...
Types of policies Lloyd's syndicates write a diverse range of policies, both direct insurance and reinsurance, covering property, liability, catastrophe and many other risks. Lloyd's has a unique niche in unusual, specialist business such as kidnap and ransom insurance, fine art insurance, aviation insurance, marine, etc.
The general public knows Lloyd's for some unusual policies it has written. Lloyd's has insured:
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Miscellaneous The present Lloyd's building, at no. 1 Lime Street, was designed by architect Richard Rogers and was completed in 1986. It stands on the site of the old Roman Forum. The 1925 facade still survives, appearing strangely stranded with the modern building visible through the gates. One of the stainless steel clad stair cases, and ducts on the outside of the Lloyds building Lloyds Building, City of London Lloyd’s Building (with the blue cranes), London The Lloyds building is the headquarters of the insurance institution Lloyds of London, located in the...
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In the great Underwriting Room of Lloyd's stands the Lutine Bell, which used to be struck when the fate of a ship "overdue" at its destination port became known. If the ship was safe, the bell would be rung twice: if it had sunk, the bell would be rung once. (This had the practical purpose of immediately stopping the sale or purchase of "overdue" reinsurance on that vessel.) Now it is only rung for ceremonial purposes, such as the visit of a distinguished guest (two rings), or for the annual Remembrance Day service; and for major world catastrophes, such as 9/11 and the Asian Tsunami Disaster (one ring). A frigate similar to HMS Lutine H.M.S. Lutine was launched at Toulon in 1779, as La Lutine (translation: imp or sprite) for the French Royal Navy, originally with 26 guns. ...
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Equitas is the general label given to a group of companies linked to Lloyds of London. ...
The Lloyds Register Group is an independent risk management organisation providing risk assessment and risk mitigation solutions and management systems certification. ...
Lloyds List is one of the worlds oldest continuously-running journals, having printed shipping news in London at least as early as 1741. ...
One of the stainless steel clad stair cases, and ducts on the outside of the Lloyds building Lloyds Building, City of London Lloyd’s Building (with the blue cranes), London The Lloyds building is the headquarters of the insurance institution Lloyds of London, located in the...
Marine Insurance covers the loss or damage of ships, cargo, terminals, and any transport or property by which cargo is transferred, acquired, or held between the points of origin and final destination. ...
Reinsurance is a means by which an insurance company can protect itself against the risk of losses with other insurance companies. ...
Jonathans Coffee-House in Change Alley is famous as the original site of the London Stock Exchange. ...
The Source by Greyworld, in the new LSE building Paternoster Square. ...
In materials, the BS 1088 specification is a marine plywood specification that applies to plywood produced with untreated tropical hardwood veneers that have a set level of resistance to fungal attack. ...
A shipping line is a business that operates ships that it itself either owns or operates for the benefit of the owner. ...
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Criticism Coordinates: 51°30′47.28″N, 0°04′56.42″W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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