With Euro 2020 finally getting underway, the next in our ‘Insurance Stories’ series looks at infamous tales of football and insurance. Gascoigne’s tackle This tackle in the 1991 FA Cup Final almost cost Lloyd’s of London £5 million. Paul Gascoigne was insured by Tottenham Hotspur for that amount against an injury that would prevent […]

Did you know that Lloyd’s of London enabled Ian Botham to play professional football? After opting out of the 1984 cricket tour of India, he decided instead to play football for Scunthorpe United. His club weren’t happy with his decision and it was only after the TCCB and Scunthorpe both insured him that he was […]

In the next of our ‘insurance stories’ series we look at cases involving our famous furry friends!  Many animals have been insured at Lloyd’s of London over the years, and here are a few notable tales from years gone by. Lassie & co!  The cost of insuring Lassie the dog was so high that his […]

In the first of our ‘Insurance Stories’ series we take a look at some of the weird and wonderful tales from those on the big screen!  Special effects insurance The cost of making the 1982 movie E.T. was roughly $10 million with $200,000 paid in insurance premium. That included the cost of insuring E.T. himself […]

As part of HFG’s ongoing sponsorship of the Insurance Insider, we recently sponsored Insider Progress’ Black Lives Matter series. The Black Lives Matter series looked into self-identification, both for the individual and the company to see where they are on their journey to fight black underrepresentation and where an individual would want to get to. […]