Risky Business: An Insider's Account of the Disaster at Lloyd's of London
- ISBN-10
- 0684197391
- ISBN-13
- 9780684197395
- Series
- Risky Business
- Category
- Insurance companies
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Authors
- Martin Mayer, Elizabeth Luessenhop
Description
An expose of the corruption and incompetence that undermined Lloyd's of London, the world's most famous insurance agency, reveals how mismanagement cost the company $12 billion dollars in ten years and led to worldwide ramifications. 25,000 first printing. Tour.
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- 2010-06-15
- 352 pages
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- 2023-01-31
- 280 pages
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- Yale University Press
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