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    Modern concepts of insurance

    Lloyds: The origins of modern commercial insurance business as practiced today can be traced to Lloyd‟s Coffee House in London. Traders, who used to gather there, would agree to share the losses, to their goods being carried by ships, due to perils of the sea. Such losses used to occur because of maritime perils, such as pirates robbing on the high seas, or bad sea weather spoiling the goods or sinking of the ship due to perils of the sea.

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