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Global natural disasters cause $ 320 bn of economic losses, $140 bn of insurance claims in 2024 : Munich Re
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Trinidad and Tobago receives $2.4 million parametric payout as excess rainfall claims
Due to different hazard risk profiles for each of the islands in the twin-island republic, the Government purchases two separate CCRIF policies for excess rainfall – one for Trinidad and one for Tobago. This payout is being made on the excess rainfall policy for Trinidad.
Since Trinidad and Tobago purchased coverage for excess rainfall in 2017, the country has received payouts under its excess rainfall policy each year – five payouts totalling US$12.5 million. The Government of Trinidad and Tobago also has cover for tropical cyclones (one policy for Trinidad and one for Tobago) and for earthquakes.
Biden to outline plan to curb coronavirus Delta variant as cases grow
Reuters data shows that more than 20,800 people have died in the United States from COVID-19 in the past two weeks, up about 67% from the prior two-week period. Hospitalizations have grown, with seven U.S. states – Alaska, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Tennessee and Washington – reporting records this month.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 62.3% of Americans have received at least one vaccine dose and 53% – 176 million people – are fully vaccinated.
Karnataka govt issues advisory to prevent Nipah virus outbreak
As per the information shared by the state Department of Family and Health Welfare, the advisory instructs the district administrations to monitor the arrivals from Kerala for symptoms like fever, altered mental status, severe weakness, headache, respiratory distress, cough, vomiting, muscle pain, convulsion and diarrhoea.
India continues to “lag way behind” in COVID vaccination: Fitch
”The (APAC) region which was so successful in containing the virus early on, got behind the curve when it came to rollout of vaccines. Singapore really stands out now with 80 per cent of its population being vaccinated. But many countries in the region like Vietnam, Thailand and India continue to lag way behind and as a result continue to have periodic restrictions,” Schwartz said.
Reinsurance outlook changes to stable as sector raises prices amid economic recovery:Moody’s
Price increases will drive stronger earnings for reinsurers through 2022 amid the post-pandemic economic recovery
Capitalization remains solid with solvency ratios well above regulatory thresholds
Uncertainty over Covid liabilities has diminished although pandemic-related claims continue to affect earnings for some large multiline reinsurers in 2021, driven by higher than expected mortality claims. The pandemic has caused reinsurers to take a more prudent stance towards systemic risk management, including communicable disease, cyber events and climate change.
$25–$35 billion insured losses in Gulf of Mexico from hurricane Ida: RMS
Losses reflect property damage and business interruption to residential, commercial, automobile, industrial, infrastructure, marine cargo and specie, watercraft, and other speciality lines of business, along with post-event loss amplification (PLA) and non-modeled sources of loss.
UK PM Johnson to hike taxes to pay for social care
Johnson wants to raise the National Insurance (NI) tax paid by around 25 million working people to subsidize care for pensioners, including wealthy retirees, according to British media.
In 2019, Johnson said he had a plan for social care and promised to prevent the elderly from having to sell their houses to pay for care.
Global bodies join hands to launch 500 actions to reduce environmental health burden
Environmental pollution and other environmental risks cause 24 per cent of deaths through, for example, heart disease, stroke, poisonings, traffic accidents, and others, all of which could at least be substantially reduced, if not eliminated, through bold preventive action at national, regional, local and sector-specific levels.
Air pollution alone leads to 7 million deaths each year, while climate change is expected to contribute increasingly to a broad range of health impacts, both directly and indirectly through effects on biodiversity.
Hyundai to go electric for its new commercial vehicle by 2028
Further underscoring its pioneering commitment to clean sustainable energy for all types of mobility, the Group unveiled unprecedented plans that will see the electrification of all new commercial vehicle models – featuring fuel cell electric or battery electric powertrains, as well as the application of fuel cell systems – to all models by 2028. The daring strategy will put the Group at the vanguard of the commercial vehicle sector, in the process helping to reshape the industry and realize a sustainable clean future.
Organisations in India project 9.4 pc salary increase in 2022: Aon survey
”This is a strong indication of financial health and buoyancy in the economy. There is a clear uptick, from 6.1 salary increase in 2020, we have gone up to 8.8 per cent actual in 2021 and the projected salary increase for 2022 is 9.4 per cent, which is at par with the pandemic number that we had seen in 2018 and 2019,” said Roopank Chaudhary, a partner in Aon’s human capital business.
The survey further noted that the pandemic has accelerated the digital journey for organisations and this has led to an unprecedented war for digital talent in the short term and is driving up salary increase budgets and attrition numbers across sectors.