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The UK insurance business is an important contributor to the economy, a major employer and a significant source of overseas earnings. It helps businesses to protect themselves from risk and provides a wide range of services to ordinary people, from car and house insurance to pensions, life cover and savings.

Today Lloyd's of London is the world's leading insurance market, housed in an award-winning modern building in Lime Street in the City of London. Its origins, however, lay in the more modest surroundings of a 17th century coffee house.