1.4 1970s: Changes in the financial markets. 1.3 1960s: Hurricane Betsy and the Cromer report. 1.2 1906: San Francisco earthquake and Cuthbert Heath. 1.1 17th–19th centuries: Formation and first Lloyd's Act. Direct insurance represented 65 per cent of the premiums, mostly covering property and casualty ( liability), while the remaining 35 per cent was reinsurance. Of those premiums 53 per cent emanated from North America, 27 per cent from Europe and 20 per cent from the rest of the world. In 2020 there were 76 syndicates managed by 50 managing agencies that collectively wrote £35.5bn of gross premiums on risks placed by 350 brokers. As of 2019 this chain consisted of £52.8 billion of syndicate-level assets, £27.6bn of members' "funds at Lloyd's" and over £4.4bn in a third mutual link which includes the Central Fund. Having survived multiple scandals and significant challenges through the second half of the 20th century, most notably the asbestosis affair, Lloyd's today promotes its strong financial "chain of security" available to promptly pay all valid claims. The market's motto is Fidentia, Latin for "confidence", and it is closely associated with the Latin phrase uberrima fides, or "utmost good faith", representing the relationship between underwriters and brokers. 
Today, it has a dedicated building on Lime Street within which business is transacted at each syndicate's "box" in the underwriting "Room", with the insurance policy documentation being known traditionally as a "slip". The market has its roots in marine insurance and was founded by Edward Lloyd at his coffee house on Tower Street in c. The business underwritten at Lloyd's is predominantly general insurance and reinsurance, although a small number of syndicates write term life assurance. These underwriters, or "members", are a collection of both corporations and private individuals, the latter being traditionally known as "Names". It operates as a partially-mutualised marketplace within which multiple financial backers, grouped in syndicates, come together to pool and spread risk. Unlike most of its competitors in the industry, it is not an insurance company rather, Lloyd's is a corporate body governed by the Lloyd's Act 1871 and subsequent Acts of Parliament. Lloyd's of London, generally known simply as Lloyd's, is an insurance and reinsurance market located in London, United Kingdom.
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