In october 1919, the Royal Insurance Co, close Liverpool neighbours, bought the Liverpool and London to form the largest composite insurance company in the world.The Times 29 October 1919 https://go.gale.com/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=Newspapers&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&hitCount=100&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&currentPosition=56&docId=GALE%7CCS302320989&docType=Article&sort=Pub+Date+Forward+Chron&contentSegment=ZTMA-MOD1&prodId=TTDA&pageNum=3&contentSet=GALE%7CCS302320989&searchId=R2&userGroupName=bro_ttda&inPS=true However, the Liverpool and London carried on as an independent entity. The official history, which continued to 1936, makes only a passing reference to the “Royal-Liverpool” Group of Companies and plots its independent activity. A later article on Liverpool's marine insurance referred to the administration of both concerns being co-ordinated in 1941 and fully integrated in 1962,Antony J Barratt, 100 Years of marine Insurance in Liverpool, in Merseyside Maritime Research, Liverpool, 2007 https://liverpoolnauticalresearchsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Merseyside-Maritime-Research-2008.pdf In 1996 Royal Insurance merged with Sun Alliance to form Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group, shortened to RSA Insurance Group in 2008.RSA history https://www.rsagroup.com/who-we-are/history/
