14 October 2015Insurance

Five challenges the industry must conquer

The insurance industry has always faced challenges. In the days when Lloyd’s of London was still a coffee house it worried about pirates such as Blackbeard and masts snapping in storms. It still worries about pirates, but now insures far more than ships.

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