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- <text id=93TT1627>
- <title>
- May 10, 1993: Name-Saving Plan
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
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- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- BUSINESS, Page 25
- Name-Saving Plan
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Lloyd's offers a scheme to attract new investors and
- protect the old ones
- </p>
- <p> "In a competitive world," acknowledged David Rowland,
- chairman of Lloyd's of London, "we have performed very poorly."
- That was hardly news for the nearly 20,000 "Names," Lloyd's
- investors who in some instances have lost fortunes as the
- 300-year-old insurance firm bled $9.4 billion in red ink over
- a four-year period. Losses for 1990, to be reported in June,
- could be a record $4.4 billion. What was news was the unveiling
- of Lloyd's first ever business plan--a 70-page overhaul
- designed to attract new investors and allow companies, starting
- next year, to become members for the first time, supplementing
- the Names who take on unlimited liability. Also proposed: 30%
- cost reductions to streamline operations, and a centrally run
- company using set-aside reserves to reinsure policies that were
- underwritten before 1986. This device is designed to protect new
- investors from an expected tide of claims on old U.S. asbestos-
- and pollution-related cases. Otherwise the plan did little to
- pacify thousands of angry, financially ruined Names in
- litigation over losses they believe were caused by negligence,
- incompetence and even fraud rather than bad luck. They say they
- will fight on, plan or not.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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