Liability Crisis, LMX Spiral and Collapse

Robin Pearson ()
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Robin Pearson: University of Hull

Chapter Chapter 7 in Delusions of Competence, 2022, pp 73-89 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The largest and more damaging category of scandal at Lloyd’s in the 1980s and early 1990s concerned the negligent or incompetent underwriting of ‘excess of loss’ (XL) reinsurance. XL policies involved the reinsurer agreeing to indemnify the first insurer in the event of the latter sustaining a loss in excess of a pre-determined figure that was the liability to be retained by the first insurer. The rapid expansion of the XL market at Lloyd’s contributed to a growth in negligent or incompetent approaches to risk assessment. At the height of the crisis in 1991, some 20% of all members at Lloyd’s had organised into action groups to sue their syndicates for losses due to poor XL and other forms of underwriting, and to pursue Lloyd’s for compensation because of supervisory failures.

Keywords: Excess of loss reinsurance; Asbestos risks; Run-off insurance; Catastrophe losses; Risk exposure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-94088-1_7

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