It must have been incredibly dispiriting, and at times scary, to have spent the holidays in the north of the British Isles being inundated with torrential rain day after day as Desmond (not me!), Eva and Frank swept in from the west. Two years ago, it was the south & west that bore the brunt…
From its origins in the coffee houses of London during the late seventeenth century until now, the modern insurance industry has always been affected by the vagaries of the weather. The Lutine Bell traditionally rang out in the Lloyd’s Building in London to alert underwriters to impending bad news like the sinking of a merchantman…
Insurance & Climate change My day was brightened this morning by noticing a colourful advertisement in my newspaper of choice for the new Coral Reefs – Secret Cities of the Seas exhibition which is being staged by the Natural History Museum. It was not so much the witty depiction of the reef denizens as stay …