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Nightmare on Lime Street : Whatever Happened to Lloyd's of London?

Hardcover • 1992 • English

Nightmare on Lime Street : Whatever Happened to Lloyd's of London?

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About the book

HE NIGHTMARE BEGAN on 16th Toctober 1987 when winds of up to 100mph tore across Britain, with an eventual cost of £2 billion. Hurricane Hugo followed in 1988, together with the Piper Alpha oil rig and Lockerbie Pan Am disasters, while in 1989 earthquakes rocked San Francisco. All these struck the insurance markets, already reeling from massive claims under 40-year-old policies by America's asbestosis sufferers, just as new multi- billion-dollar anti-pollution clean-up laws in the USA again sent ...Show more

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ISBN

9781856850179

Published year

1992

Language

English

Original title

Nightmare on Lime Street : Whatever Happened to Lloyd's of London?

Format

Hardcover

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