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<text id=93TT1627>
<title>
May 10, 1993: Name-Saving Plan
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
May 10, 1993 Ascent of a Woman: Hillary Clinton
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK
BUSINESS, Page 25
Name-Saving Plan
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<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.
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