Lloyd's: Stop Underwriting The Junta-

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Lloyd's: Stop Underwriting The Junta

EMAIL/CALL LLOYD'S INSURERS NOW - CONTACTS AND TALKING POINTS BELOW
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Who to Contact What to say - suggestions
We need to put pressure on both Lloyd's as a whole, and the syndicates we know to be involved. Suggestions about what to say can be found at right. First, email Lloyd's of London chairman Lord Levene, chief executive Richard Ward and key board and staff members -- just copy the list of addresses below and paste it into your email "To" field:

peter.levene@lloyds.com, richard.ward@lloyds.com, Jose.Ribeiro@lloyds.com, luke.savage@lloyds.com, rolf.tolle@lloyds.com, louise.shield@lloyds.com, nicholas.furlonge@beazley.com, andrew.kendrick@ace-ina.com, jim_stretton@wisegroup.co.uk, edward.creasy@kilngroup.com, graham.white@argentaplc.com, alan.lovell@infinis.com, ewen.gilmour@lloyds.com, rupert.atkin@talbotuw.com, chrisharman@hwsltd.com, dshipley@mapunderwriting.co.uk, dermot.odonohoe@xlgroup.com, barbara.merry@hardygroup.co.uk, nick.marsh@atrium-uw.com

Switchboard: +44 (0)20 7327 1000
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Then if you have time, email or telephone contacts at Atrium, Catlin and Kiln -- three syndicates confirmed to be involved in underwriting the military dictators' aviation interests (scroll down for contact details):

CATLIN

david.ibeson@catlin.com, richard.clapham@catlin.com, chris.mauduit@catlin.com
Switchboard: +44 (0)20 7626 0486

ATRIUM

nick.marsh@atrium-uw.com, kevin.wilkins@atrium-uw.com, john.monsell@atrium-uw.com
Switchboard: +44 (20) 7327 3206

KILN

edward.creasy@kilngroup.com, robert.chase@kilngroup.com, peter.haynes@kilngroup.com, charles.franks@kilngroup.com, Richard.Lewis@kilngroup.com, keith.grant@kilngroup.com, morag.thornton@kilngroup.com
Switchboard: +44 (0)20 7886 9000


Below are the points likely to have the most impact on getting Lloyd's to stop insuring junta-linked companies. Please do frame it in your own words, while focusing on these rational points (insults won't help!). After you have called or emailed contacts at Lloyd's of London and the syndicates tied to the Burmese junta, please share your experience and any responses from them here.
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TO LORD LEVENE AND LLOYD'S OF LONDON:

1. Lloyd's must tell its syndicates clearly to stop insuring any risk linked to the Burmese junta. They may object that Lloyd's is only a market, but this is no excuse: Lloyd's is responsible for everything that flows through it.

2. Will Lord Levene meet with Burma campaigners to hear their arguments and explain his position?

3. Lloyd's should disclose all Burma-linked risks that are insured through it, particularly those that go beyond shipping and aviation.

4. Lloyd's should disclose whether it is the conduit for insuring any of the Burma-related risks of oil company TOTAL, which channels over $2m a day to the junta. Given that Lord Levene also sits on the board of TOTAL, if there is any conflict of interest how will it be resolved?

5. We will be writing to the media about this, including the insurance press.

(Note that Lloyd's of London has no connection to the Lloyds TSB bank.)
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TO CATLIN, ATRIUM AND KILN:
(The syndicates known to be involved in insuring the junta's aviation interests)

They should immediately stop insuring risks linked to the interests of the Burmese military dictatorship, including on aviation. This part of their business is propping up an oppressive regime, making it possible for it to defy international calls to open up and release political prisoners. We will notify the media, including the insurance press, and won't stop the public pressure until they stop insuring junta-related risks.

IF YOU ARE IN LONDON OR CAN GET THERE: A protest outside Lloyd's of London is also being organised in the coming weeks -- if you'd like to express interest in joining it, email demo@burmacampaign.org.uk

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Hi,

I've just heard about this important campaign to pressure Lloyd’s of London to stop insuring the military dictators of Burma.

Burma's military junta has been hanging on to power for years using repressive tactics - jailing monks and opposition leaders such as Aung San Suu Kyi, and denying their citizens relief after last year's devastating cyclone. One way to push for change is to cut off the businesses that prop them up by shaming western companies that are supporting them.

Lloyd’s of London is one of their lifelines -- so please join me now by emailing them, the media furore is growing and Lloyd’s could be pushed to terminate its Burmese contracts to save face. If you click on the link below a page will come up which provides key numbers, email addresses and suggestions for what to say. It will only take a few minutes. Please follow the link below to take action:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/shame_lloyds_on_burma/98.php

For the full Avaaz campaign read below:

Dear friends,

A year after their crackdown, Burma's military dictators remain entrenched, propped up by dealings with Western companies. But the Burmese democracy movement has found a powerful pressure point -- the insurers who underwrite the generals' economic stranglehold -- exposing them one by one, and forcing big companies to pull out.[1]

Now information has leaked that Lloyd's of London, one of the world's oldest, most respected and secretive insurers, is the ultimate channel for insurance on the generals' venturesincluding aviation and shipping: yesterday, news broke that Lloyd's chairman Lord Levene also sits on the board of the junta-linked oil giant TOTAL![2]

Bad publicity is growing as deals come up for renewal -- if enough of us email and call key Lloyd's decision-makers this week, we can shame them into pulling out of this dirty trade, undermining the hardliners and creating leverage for the release of political prisoners like rightfully elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/shame_lloyds_on_burma/98.php

The Burmese people's struggle is long and tough. But as in South Africa, international pressure on the regime's exploitative ventures could tip the balance. Because it's hard or impossible for them to continue without insurance, this is an effective and wide-reaching approach for citizens everywhere to have a real impact.

Lloyd's of London is the umbrella and overseer for hundreds of specialist insurance syndicates, the last option for many junta-linked companies, and it can stop this dirty trade if it so chooses. We'll ramp up the pressure by alerting the media to our campaign, specialist insurance publications included. Even the British government has begun to ask Lloyd's to cease its business with the Burmese military junta.[3]

We can win this campaign, so let's flood Lloyd's with emails and phone calls all this week -- on the campaign page we provide key numbers, email addresses and suggestions for what to say -- just follow the link below now to take action:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/shame_lloyds_on_burma/98.php

If we win, the regime will be thrown onto the back foot, Burma's people who see none of the benefits of this dirty trade will be immensely heartened, and the UN Secretary-General will have a greater chance of securing the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and other prisoners this December. Together, our individual small acts are becoming irresistible. We can't forget Burma.

With hope and determination,

Paul, Alice, Iain, Graziela, Ricken, Pascal, Paula, Brett, Veronique, Milena -- the entire Avaaz team

For updates on Avaaz campaigns: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/report_back_2/
You can also view reports on our campaigns in support of the Burmese democracy movement and the$2 million of aid Avaaz members provided in the wake of Cyclone Nargis.

Sources:

1. Reinsurance Magazine: Big insurers including Marsh, Swiss Re, AON pull out: http://www.reinsurancemagazine.com/public/showPage.html?page=787739

Arab Insurance Group and XL also pull out:
http://www.mizzima.com/news/world/962-campaigners-hail-arigs-decision-to-pull-out-of-burma.html

2. The Observer: "The baron who holds Burma's purse strings", 2 November 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/nov/02/oil-total-burma-lloyds-levene1

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/sep/28/insurance.foreignpolicy

4. Asia-Europe summit in Beijing calls for release of political prisoners:
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/independent/2008/10/release-aung-sa.html Import automatically from my personal address book. Select this option to load contacts from your Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail, or AOL email account.
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