MONTE CARLO–Lloyd's Chief Executive Richard Ward said the market's ambitious deadlines to add technology that improves its business operations and trading practices have mostly been met.

But, at the same time, he said there are some difficulties in getting people to let go of old ways and embrace electronic systems.

"On the claims processing, we're at 44 percent," he told National Underwriter in an interview here. "We're ahead now, so we're on schedule. But I want to make sure we don't miss it, so I'm encouraging people to up their game, work a little bit harder, get their brokers in line."

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