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Lloyd’s of London slavery review fails to settle heated question of reparations

Insurance market’s honesty is welcome, as is £12m programme to increase ethnic diversity in workplace, but more must be done

The Guardian - UK

Lloyd’s of London accused of ‘reparations washing’ over response to slave trade review

World’s biggest insurance market played ‘significant role’ in transatlantic trade, research finds

The Guardian - UK

Lloyd's of London insurance syndicate group set for rare new London Stock Exchange listing next month

The listing is set to raise £300 million

Evening Standard

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Big European insurers ‘underwrite 30% of US coal despite net zero pledges’

Lloyd’s of London, Zurich and Swiss Re among top 10 insurers of largest US coalmines, study finds

The Guardian - UK

Bill Blacklock obituary

Other lives: Marine engineer and surveyor with Lloyd’s Register who also served in the merchant navy in the second world war

The Guardian - UK

Free food and threats to bonuses: UK finance and tech firms fight working from home

Banks and insurers join Google, Amazon and Meta in encouraging staff to spend most of week in office

The Guardian - UK

Caribbean nations set to demand royal family makes reparations for slave trade

Lloyd’s of London and Church of England also to be approached over role in past exploitation

The Guardian - UK

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Workers should be in office at least three days a week, says Lloyd’s of London boss

Chairman Bruce Carnegie-Brown also says clients are not properly served if workers avoid Mondays and Fridays

The Guardian - UK

Lloyd’s of London returns to profit with ‘bulletproof’ balance sheet

World famous insurance marketplace secures payment from Russian insurers over seized planes

Evening Standard

Republicans' anti-ESG attack may be silencing insurers, but it isn’t changing their pro-climate business decisions

Over recent months there has been an orchestrated pushback against investors and insurers who integrate the risks of climate change into their business models. That pushback – emanating from Republican-led states – is having an impact on how companies speak publicly. But whether it will affect their efforts to respond…

The Conversation

Ron DeSantis critics gloat over ‘brutal’ reviews of his UK trip: ‘Horrendous, low-wattage, bored’

The Florida governor and his wife travelled this week to Israel, Japan, Korea and the UK on an economic trade mission

The Independent UK

Lloyd’s of London offers to insure NHS for unexpected costs such as pandemic

Head of insurance market floats idea of giving government bespoke flood and drought cover

The Guardian - UK

More than money: the logic of slavery reparations

It’s not just about payment. It is about engaging in good faith with the descendants of enslaved people and addressing inequalities – to make a better future possible

The Guardian - UK

The large Welsh town which is losing its very last bank as Lloyds confirms it's pulling out

The decision has been described as 'disappointing and short-sighted'

Wales Online

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Evening Standard

Bond meltdown pushes Lloyd’s of London to £800m loss

Lloyd’s of London plunged to an £800 million loss for 2022 it revealed today after big payouts relating to the war in Ukraine and Hurricane Ian in the US came alongside a drop in the value of its investment portfolio.

The Guardian - UK

Lloyd’s of London swings to loss after £21bn of claims including Hurricane Ian and Ukraine

World’s biggest insurance market reports pre-tax deficit of £769m for 2022 after profit of £2.3bn in 2021

Fortune

A major insurance CEO complains about workers shunning the office: 'We need to get Monday back'

Lloyd's of London's John Neal sees more traffic in the middle of the week than on Mondays, reducing the face-time employees get in the office.

Tribune News Service

Russia seized their planes. Now South Florida firms sue insurers over alleged loss

The war in Ukraine is creating financial stress for two aircraft leasing companies in South Florida whose planes are being held hostage in Russia.

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Reuters

Dubai Aerospace, with 19 jets stuck in Russia, sues 11 insurers in London

Aircraft leasing firm Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) has filed a London lawsuit against 11 insurers, including Lloyd's of London, AIG, Chubb and Swiss Re, two months after it wrote off almost $600 million for 19 aircraft stuck in Russia.

The Guardian - UK

Coal projects outside China becoming ‘uninsurable’, says climate group

As big firms stop insuring coal, complex schemes unlikely to find expertise needed, says Insure Our Future

The Independent UK

Lutine Bell to be rung in honour of Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III

Lloyds of London will mark the monarch’s death and the start of the King’s reign.

Evening Standard

Lloyd’s boss: Liz Truss watchdog merger ‘would be distraction’

Lloyd’s chairman Bruce Carnegie-Brown also complained businesses were being hampered by delays to the process of approving new company directors.

The Guardian - UK

Lloyd’s of London takes £1.1bn hit from Ukraine war

Insurance market warns of financial fallout from conflict and tough year of natural catastrophes

Newcastle Herald

Hunter festival boss sues insurer over Black Summer cancellation

Organiser Scott Commens and the owners of Riverwood Downs decided to call off the event in the face of the 2019 bushfires, which were burning just kilometres away from the festival site.

AAP

Insurer sued over bushfire-axed festival

Lloyd's has been hit with a lawsuit for around $870,000 after refusing to compensate a NSW music festival cancelled during the Black Summer bushfires.

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