David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Seasoned underwriters put Lloyd's losses in context

    09 April 2019

    Map’s David Shipley and Richard Trubshaw praise Lloyd’s for supporting strong underwriting

  • Lloyd's syndicates go green in latest annual reports

    05 April 2019

    The insurance risk from global warming comes under scrutiny

  • Syndicates hail results of Lloyd's 'Decile 10' process

    04 April 2019

    Power back in underwriters’ hands for “first time in several years,” says one syndicate

  • Lloyd's syndicates voice concerns over "complications" of Brussels arrangement

    03 April 2019

    But some are already using the Belgian entity to write new EU cover

  • Newline Group picks Germany as post-Brexit EU hub

    03 April 2019

    The specialty insurance group follows in the footsteps of Markel and Ironshore

  • Lloyd's syndicates axe over-served marine market

    02 April 2019

    Syndicates are closing, refocusing and trimming Lloyd’s largest specialist reinsurance class

  • Stubbornly soft insurance rates keep disappointing Lloyd's syndicates

    01 April 2019

    Some underwriters say alternative capital is slowly draining away

  • La Parisienne plans UK operation to counter Brexit

    29 March 2019

    Markel International completes transferring business to Germany, for same reason

  • Asta, Axis and Chubb among Lloyd's underwriting laggards in 2018

    29 March 2019

    Beazley and Hiscox syndicates among the better performers, Lloyd’s report reveals

  • A shake-up of Australian earthquake modelling

    26 March 2019

    David Walker finds that much has changed in the risk models used to assess the country's seismic hazard - and in the mentality of the modellers themselves