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Having worked in Swiss Re's claims division for nearly 20 years, Karin Lloyd tells Johanna Gornitzki what it is like to finally be working for herself

Hardly anyone working in the field of insurance claims to having nurtured a life-long dream to go into the sector. And, for Karin Lloyd, a strategic and technical claims consultant, this certainly rings true, as she admits it was a "complete accident" that she fell into it. "In fact, the very first job that I landed [in the industry], I actually went to interview for something completely different. The agency had made a mistake and it was the wrong job. But I was pleading with the people to be interviewed for something because I had come all the way from Gloucestershire to London. So, I w...

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