David has been writing about the insurance industry for over 30 years. As well as editing a range of leading insurance titles - including Post Magazine, Reinsurance and Insurance Age - David wrote for The Guardian for several years and has contributed to most major national newspapers. He has frequently appeared on radio and television as a commentator on insurance issues. Among his many achievements, David launched the British Insurance Awards, the Rehabilitation First Awards and the Cover Magazine Protection Awards. In 1990 he established the All Party Parliamentary Group on Insurance & Financial Services which has played an influential role in improving communication between the insurance and retail financial services sector and Parliament. You can follow David on Twitter.
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The normally phlegmatic David Coleridge succumbed to a touch of exasperation when he joked that the best regulator of the Lloyd’s insurance market was God. “Only the Almighty could determine which
David Coleridge, chairman of Lloyd’s insurance market during turbulent years – obituary
After big losses he was regarded by disgruntled Names as representing the Lloyd’s Establishment, but he started the process of reform
30 December 2020 • 9:46pm
Coleridge (outside the Lloyd s building in 1992): known for his kindness and lack of vanity
Credit: DAVID GAYWOOD/PA Archive
David Coleridge, who has died aged 88, was chairman of Lloyd’s of London during what he called “one of the darker chapters” in the insurance market’s history.
An urbane Old Etonian who had spent all his working life in Lloyd’s, Coleridge was variously described as appearing to survive on a diet of “port and school puddings” and concealing steely determination “behind a tired teddy-bear look”.