Ultimate Risk.The inside story of the Lloyd's catastrophe
Details:
- Author(s) Raphael, Adam
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1994
- Pages 335pp; illus
- Publisher Bantam Press
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of businesses
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Deals with recent crises at Lloyds and their antecedence to1960s. Chapters include: 'Coffee house to catastrophe'; 'Hurricane Betsy'; 'The roulette spins faster'; 'Asbestos - the fatal legacy'; 'The Outhwaite Affair'; 'Pollution - An American nightmare'; 'Sue first, pay later'; 'The gathering storm'; 'A new regime'; 'The fat lady sings'. Appendices give details of underwriting membership, 1771-1993; numbers of syndicates by market, 1979-93; Lloyd's total capacity, 1967-93'; 'Lloyd's global accounts, 1964-90'