The Great Fire of London and the birth of the insurance industry
350 years ago, London was ravaged by the Great Fire. Out of its ashes was born a fledgling property insurance market. What strides have been made in the following centuries?
Modern property insurance traces its origins back to the aftermath of the Great Fire of London in 1666 and that story will be told many times as the massive conflagration is commemorated, 350 years on
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