Exceptions include Lloyd's of London, which is famous for insuring the life or health of actors, sports figures and other famous individuals.

The town was the site of the first Lloyd's Supercenter, and is home to many retail stores, shopping centers and restaurants, many of which are located along Route 211.

The working and external members are elected by Lloyd's members.

There are two classes of people and firms active at Lloyd's.

Coverholders are an important source of business for Lloyd's.

Their numbers have increased steadily in recent years, and there are now about 2, 500 Lloyd's coverholders producing around 30 % of Lloyd's premium income each year.

They must hire Lloyd's brokers, who are the only customer-facing companies at Lloyd's.

Lloyd's is not publicly traded, though some of its members are listed companies, such as Hiscox Ltd, Catlin Group Ltd and Hardy Underwriting Bermuda Ltd.

Lloyd's finance director Luke Savage explained, “ There are a lot of banks who, because of the uncertainty around Europe, the market has stopped using to place deposits with.

Heinlein may have come up with the term himself, but there are earlier citations: a piece in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1889, used the term in reference to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward: 2000 – 1887 and other works ; and one in the May, 1900 issue of The Bookman said that John Uri Lloyd's Etidorhpa, The End of the Earth had " created a great deal of discussion among people interested in speculative fiction ".

All Royal Fleet Auxiliaries are built and maintained to Lloyd's Register and Department for Transport standards.

Rogers ' iconic London buildings are probably Lloyd's Building and the Millennium Dome, while Foster created the ' Gherkin ' and the City Hall.

Overlooking the Cape are the ruins of the Lloyd's signal station, which was used to monitor shipping.

Among the notable buildings on whose design he worked are the Centre Pompidou, the Sydney Opera House, Lloyd's of London, the Louvre Pyramid, the Mound Stand at Lord's Cricket Ground, Kansai International Airport and Stansted Airport.

Lloyd's algorithm and k-means are often used synonymously, but in reality Lloyd's algorithm is a heuristic for solving the k-means problem, as with certain combinations of starting points and centroids, Lloyd's algorithm can in fact converge to the wrong answer.

A year later, the Finance Act 1998 went even further, making it clear that taxable trading profits ( apart from those accruing to a Lloyd's corporate name or to a life assurance company ) and profits from a rental business are equal to profits calculated under generally accepted accounting practice (" GAAP ") unless there is a specific statutory or case law rule to the contrary.

Lloyd seeks advice and counsel from his sister and several close female friends who are genuinely looking out for Lloyd's best interests as he embarks on his first serious romantic relationship.

No references to the shipwreck are known to exist in contemporary records or sources, including newspapers, Lloyd's List or Lloyd's Register.

Lloyd's Rules for ships are derived from principles of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, and govern safety and operational standards for numerous merchant, military and privately-owned vessels all around the world.

Ships are inspected on a regular basis by a team of Lloyd's Register surveyors, one of the most important inspections being a ship's annual Load Line Survey.

In Hong Kong, where the largest number of Approved Lloyd's Coverholders are domiciled in Asia Pacific, insurers and their potential clients seek a closer way for the Lloyd's market to access the emerging insurance market of Asia Pacific and vice versa.

Many years later, acetate discs of 29 of the shows were discovered in Lloyd's home, and they now circulate among old-time radio collectors.

Lloyd's of London insurance syndicate, which covered Douglas Aircraft, retained Failure Analysis Associates ( now Exponent, Inc .) to investigate the accident as well.

He was separated from his wife in 1761, and would have been imprisoned for debt but for the timely help of Lloyd's father, who had been an usher and was now a master at Westminster.

The street was home to East India House from 1729 until its demolition in 1869 ; the site is now occupied by the insurance market Lloyd's of London.

As a result, Jurong Port was recognized with the Award for Achievement in Safety from Lloyd's List in 2009.

Two of his other favorites were Tempest Storm and Beverly Hills, the former having her breasts insured with Lloyd's of London.

* Christopher Lloyd's character of Doctor Emmett Brown, one of the two main fictional characters of the Back To The Future film series, attributed the origins of his lifelong devotion to science to having read as a child the works of Jules Verne in general, and Journey to the Centre of the Earth in particular.

Lloyd's wife Alice was in hospital at the time having just given birth to their baby son Ashton the previous day.

Previously, he served as Chairman of Lloyd's, the world's leading specialist insurance and reinsurance market from 2002 – 2011, after having been Vice Chairman of Deutsche Bank, one of the world ’ s leading providers of financial services.

On each occasion the allegation that there had been a policy of ' recruit to dilute ' was rejected, however, at first instance the judge described the Names as the innocent victims [...] of staggering incompetence and at appeal the Court found that representations that Lloyd's had a rigorous auditing system were false ( 376 of the judgment: [...] the answer to the question [...] whether there was in existence a rigorous system of auditing which involved the making of a reasonable estimate of outstanding liabilities, including unknown and unnoted losses, is no.

Lloyd's rate of film releases, which had been one or two a year in the 1920s, slowed to about one every two years until 1938.

To this point the films had been produced by Lloyd's company.

But the show's half-hour format — which meant the material might have been truncated too severely — and Lloyd's sounding somewhat ill at ease on the air for much of the season ( though he spent weeks training himself to speak on radio prior to the show's premiere, and seemed more relaxed toward the end of the series run ) may have worked against it.

The rubber plantations and tin mining industries had pushed for the use of the term " emergency " since their losses would not have been covered by Lloyd's insurers if it had been termed a " war ".

Andrew Walker formally cleared ITN of any blame for Terry Lloyd's death, and said that in his view the U. S. tanks had been first to open fire on the ITN crew's two vehicles.

Reporter Chad Garrison spoke with George Gaines, a nephew of Lloyd's who was one of only two surviving family members who had been alive when Lloyd disappeared, although he had only been an infant at the time, and other, younger descendants.

The owners ( the house of R. Van Brienen ) attempted to claim on their insurance but an anonymous letter informed Lloyd's that the ship had been sabotaged.

However, although this is a credible explanation for unexplained losses, there is to date little clear evidence supporting this hypothesis nor any cases where the cause has been confirmed, and the claim is contradicted by information held by Lloyd's Register.

Sir David has been elected to the Council of Lloyd's as an external member.

A spaceship that had been hidden in the outer solar system activates and begins approaching Earth, and its energy signature is matched to that of Martin Lloyd's escape pod suggesting that this is its mother ship.

To celebrate Lloyd's career, the Lockett End of Etihad Stadium has been renamed the Lloyd End for Essendon home games.

Similarities have been drawn between the song and the chorus of Cher Lloyd's debut single Swagger Jagger.

* Bowling Green — Bowls has been for many years a popular sport in the Manchester area: many of the greens are attached to public houses, e. g. the Lloyd's Hotel and the Bowling Green Hotel in Chorlton-cum-Hardy.

By 1830, most Pacific seal stocks had been seriously depleted, and Lloyd's records only showed one full-time sealing vessel on its books.

" Nelson commented, " Lloyd's the best player who's been forgotten since I've been playing golf.

Lloyd named the character " The Glasses Character " or " The Glass Character " after the frames ; the lenses themselves had in fact been removed, both because Lloyd did not require glasses to see, and because studio lights reflecting off of the lenses obscured Lloyd's eyes on film.