Latitude Brokers

UK P&I Club 2015 General Increase announced

At their recent meeting the Directors of the UK P&I Club have agreed on a general increase of 6.5% on P&I premium for at 2015 renewal. In addition, as per previous year, any change in the International Group reinsurance premium will be charged at cost to Members. As part of the effort to maintain underwriting balance, the Club is increasing ...

Gard General Increase 2015 announced

Further to the Board of Directors held this week, Gard has published their mid-year financial results with combined loss ratio of 78% and contingency reserves at USD1,047 million. Following those strong results, the Board has decided that the 2015 General increases for mutual entries will be 2.5% on Advance calls for P&I and 10% for Defence Class. The Deferred Call ...

Ebola Update

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has caused significant concern and has been shown not to be a local problem for this terrible disease. The worst-hit countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria all have substantial ports with shipping being the main method of import/export of goods. As such, just as with the civil aviation industry, the marine industry has ...

Press Release: Marine Specialists Latitude Brokers Ltd. Launches in Hong Kong

Hong Kong 1st September 2014 – Latitude Brokers Ltd. (Latitude), previously the Marine Division of Cooper Gay Asia, has today launched as a separate entity. Following the company’s regulatory approval in July 2014 by the Hong Kong Confederation of Insurance Brokers, the newly incorporated and independently branded company is now conducting business in the Asia Pacific region. Latitude remains part ...

Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford launches Latitude Brokers

We are very pleased to announce that Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford has launched Latitude Brokers Limited as their dedicated marine direct and facultative reinsurance broker in Asia. We are very grateful for the support of our partners, friends, clients, the CGSC and Cooper Gay teams in Asia and London and Junge & Co in Germany and we are very excited ...