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Insurers rewrite business policies after pandemic legal tussles
New policies and renewals now define terms like “communicable disease” or “microorganism” – something existing policies often lacked, and which led to a flood of lawsuits that insurers have so far largely won.
An exclusion drafted by the Lloyd’s Market Association, for example, says insurers will not cover any claim “directly or indirectly arising out of, attributable to, or occurring concurrently or in any sequence with a Communicable Disease.”
Surge in daily COVID-19 cases, India records over 17,000 new infections
The increase in the numbers continued to be driven by Maharashtra, which recorded the highest daily cases in 137 days with 9,855 patients testing positive for the virus.
The last time Maharashtra exceeded this number was on October 17 when the state had recorded 10,259 cases. Punjab, too, recorded a spurt in cases with 778 patients testing positive — the highest since December 6.
At 2,765, Kerala recorded the highest number of cases after Maharashtra.
Generali CEO says insurers can’t handle pandemic risk alone
“When the risk becomes systemic it is no longer insurable and obviously we need to use public money,” he said.
Donnet said the European Union and member states should work with the insurance and reinsurance industries to improve protection across the bloc.
India’s next phase of virus crisis likely to be localised outbreaks
Rajib Dasgupta, an epidemiologist and professor of community health at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, said India was witnessing a phase of “multiple epidemics within a country” where the entire population is not equally susceptible.
“In this phase, the emphasis has to be a lot more local, a lot of local capacities will be put to test,” he said.
16,838 new coronavirus infections in India, 113 deaths in last 24 hrs
Maharashtra continues to remain the most affected COVID-19 state in India with 86,359 active cases, followed by Kerala with 44,734 active infections
‘How coronavirus infection interferes with heart function decoded’
The researchers found that viral infection not only kills heart muscle cells but destroys the muscle fibre units responsible for heart muscle contraction.
According to scientists, this cell death and loss of heart muscle fibres can happen even in the absence of inflammation.
French families sue over extensive nursing home virus deaths
Their complaint focuses on multiple issues at French homes for the elderly and disabled during the first half of 2020. Those flaws included mask shortages for residents and staff; testing shortages; the use of a powerful sedative called Rivotril on some residents while homes were locked down; and opaque decisions on which residents received hospital treatment for the virus and which were left to suffer or die in their nursing homes.
Why world’s power grids are increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks
“Essential state infrastructures like power grids and nuclear reactors have been and will continue to be a target of cyber attacks because modernization allows internet connectivity, which makes them vulnerable,” said Kim Seungjoo, a professor at Korea University’s School of Cybersecurity.
“It’s almost a natural instinct of hackers, especially the state-sponsored ones, to attack energy infrastructure because they can easily disrupt national security.”
45% of Indian online users hit by local threats in 2020
“The threat landscape in India, as well as in the APAC region, has been constantly evolving and the threats are becoming more and more sophisticated and targeted in nature,” said Saurabh Sharma, Senior Security Researcher (GReAT), Kaspersky (APAC).
Brazil’s COVID Crisis Is a Warning to the Whole World, Scientists Say
No other nation that experienced such a major outbreak is still grappling with record-setting death tolls and a health care system on the brink of collapse. Many other hard-hit nations are, instead, taking tentative steps toward a semblance of normalcy.