The ship's bell was salvaged and later mounted in the underwriters' room of Lloyd's of London.
The insurer that bears much of the risk on Rodriguez's contract, Lloyd's of London, declined to discuss the deal.
Two top jobs, chairman of Lloyd's of London and private secretary to the queen, are held by Etonians (respectively, David Coleridge and Sir Robert Fellowes) who list no other education.
The plight of unfortunate Lloyd's of London investors sustained the market during the early 1990s, but that is now over.
Another draw: the deep pockets of insurer Lloyd's of London and another firm, which are picking up Mr. Stanford's legal tab.
Both leave sizeable chunks of capacity at Lloyd's of London, the insurance market.
Air Partner's insurance division can also get the whole exercise underwritten by Lloyd's of London.
So too were new forms of corporate and academic organisation, such as the insurance firm Lloyd's of London and Britain's Royal Society.
Only after the failures in 2000 of Reliance, a large underwriter in America, and several syndicates at Lloyd's of London did the soft pricing cycle turn.
Asbestos claims brought Lloyd's of London to the edge of bankruptcy in the 1990s.
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His insurer, Lloyd's of London, was suspicious, but DeGeorge had a witness.
After the verdict Lloyd's of London filed a suit in New York seeking to limit coverage for companies caught in the Rhode Island case.
Lloyd's of London traces its roots back to 1688 and a London coffee house that established itself as the main place to insure ships.
It is available from Hiscox Syndicate 33 at Lloyd's of London.
Facing mounting competition from overseas rivals, Lloyd's of London launched a three-year plan that includes a review of rules and procedures designed to retain existing insurance business and attract new custom.
Lloyd's of London recently told the Financial Times that it would cut its cover for refined petroleum shipments to Iran if America's Congress carries through its plans to enact sanctions on such trade.
Along the way, Winchester pauses every third paragraph or so to delve into some topic that is not, at first glance, relevant to his story: Lloyd's of London, for instance, or the Reuters news agency, or Dutch colonial policy in Java, or the biological theories of Alfred Russel Wallace.
Peter Levene, Chairman of the London-based insurers Lloyd's, admitted the mood among corporate representatives would need to be more reflective and self-critical than usual.
London-based Lloyd's Market Association an umbrella group of insurers has listed Nigeria, neighboring Benin and nearby waters in the same risk category as Somalia, where two decades of war and anarchy have allowed piracy to flourish.
Next January, when many policies are repriced at Lloyd's, the recovery of the market could start to reflect stiffer rates and terms in London, says Bruce Berkowitz, a partner at Fairholme Capital, an investment manager.
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