David Osler
Insurance Editor

David specialises in the white collar shipping services scene, including law firms, banks, insurers, and trade associations, and also turns his hand to piracy, sanctions and industrial relations stories as necessary.
A London-born British and Swiss dual national, he was educated at the London School of Economics and Birkbeck College, and has academic qualification in politics, sociology, economics and international relations.
Three times voted Seahorse Club shipping news journalist of the year, he has also twice been longlisted for the Orwell Prize, Britain’s premier non-fiction literary award, and twice shortlisted as Periodical Publishers’ Association business journalist of the year, the highest honour in trade press journalism.
He has worked for Lloyd’s List since 1996, making him the longest-serving member of staff, although he doesn’t like to mention that more than three or four times a week at most. Unless it’s strictly necessary.
He has also written for many other newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, Observer, Independent, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express and New Statesman, and has appeared on all of Britain’s main television and radio news programmes.
He is a member of the Labour Party, Amnesty International and National Council for Civil Liberties, and supports the charitable work of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture and the Trussell Trust network of foodbanks.
Latest From David Osler
Solong and Stena Immaculate owners both launch legal proceedings
Boxship likely to be declared total loss
Cargo rates softening but the going remains good: IQUW’s Heeley
‘Crazy underwriting’ is out there but not the norm and Lloyd’s is still the best place for more benign cargo risks, veteran cargo underwriter says
Cargo rates softening but the going’s still good, IQUW’s Heeley argues
If you need to give blanket 10% discounts to beat the competition, do it, lead cargo underwriter advises
Tariff impact on cargo underwriting should even out, says IQUW’s Heeley
Some concern is expressed over knock-on effects on supply routes
Cargo rates softening fast on back of record levels of capacity: Lockton
Absence of market-changing loss events could mean double-digit premium slide, senior cargo broker warns
Tatham & Co and Sea Green announce shipping law merger
Expanded firm will have the capability to handle more complicated contentious cases