Lloyd's - Join the club.

Steve Reid talks to Catherine Tennant about Lloyd's' decision to open its exclusive doors and what this means for provincial insurance brokers.

Until recently, many provincial insurance brokers will have viewed
access to Lloyd's of London in much the same way as females used to view
the Long Room at Lords, or backbench MPs, the House of Lords. That is,
either with green-eyed envy or with dismissive contempt.


But now that one of London's oldest and most exclusive clubs has opened
its doors - with the first batch of non-Lloyd's brokers soon to receive
accreditation - provincial brokers have been given the chance to rub
shoulders with their