Throwback Thursday: ‘Goldfinger’ of Lloyd’s attempts comeback
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to December 1985 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history when ‘Goldfinger’ of Lloyd’s, Ian Posgate, was trying to return to the market.
19 December 1985: Posgate tries a comebackIan Posgate, who was suspended by Lloyd’s after the Alexander Howden affair, was hoping to return as an underwriter for RL Glover’s Syndicate 162 when his
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