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Japan’s 3 major casualty insurers plan to sell $9.5 billion of cross-held shares
Eliminating cross shareholdings is seen by many as a yardstick for...
Cyberattack costs Marks & Spencer $403 million in operating profit
The British retailer will try to mitigate the impact with cost...
UN climate alliance scraps emissions rules for insurers after exodus
Under the NZIA's “Target-Setting Protocol” published in January, insurance members had until the end of July to publish emissions targets for 2030 using recommended types of targets and were then required to update on their progress annually The Net-Zero Insurance...
New WHO guideline on policies to protect children from harmful impact of food marketing
Food marketing remains a threat to public health and continues to negatively affect children’s food choices, intended choices and their dietary intake. It also negatively influences the development of children’s norms about food consumption. All of these guidelines...
Ransomware attack hits Japan’s biggest port, disrupting cargo shipments
The Nagoya port authority said Russia-based ransomware group Lockbit 3.0 was responsible for the hack, Kyodo News reported Wednesday Recent data breaches often involve “double extortion” in which a ransom is demanded for the recovery of stolen information as well as...
French insurers receive $305 million riot claims
French employers’ lobby Medef estimated the cost of violence since the police shooting of Nahel, a 17-year-old of North African descent, last Tuesday at more than €1 billion ($1.1 billion), with 200 businesses looted, and 300 bank branches and 250 tobacco stores...
Law firms wooing AI experts as clients demand ‘More for less
Legal services are the most vulnerable to ChatGPT-style software, according to a recent University of Pennsylvania study. The widely-accessible technology is particularly suited to time-consuming legal work, because of its ability to instantly analyze large documents,...
Reinsurance market continues to recalibrate at mid-year 2023 renewals: Guy Carpenter
The preliminary year-to-date Guy Carpenter US Property Catastrophe Rate on Line Index, an alternative measure of price change that incorporates the impact of structural adjustments and current views of risk on actual dollars paid, increased 35 percent for January...
Russia rejects bank compromise as Black Sea grain expiry looms
Russia says the severing of the bank's access to SWIFT is one of the obstacles facing its own exports of food and fertiliser, and that it cannot keep renewing the Black Sea deal unless those issues are addressed Russia on Tuesday restated a demand for its state...
EV batteries remain major challenge for insurers – UK’s Thatcham
Batteries can make up half of an EV's cost and Thatcham found a replacement battery can cost more than the used price of the vehicle after only one year, making replacing them uneconomical LONDON: A lack of data on electric vehicle (EV) batteries continues to...
Nations haggle over targets to cut shipping’s huge emissions
Large shipping companies are already making moves. A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S has ordered 25 vessels that are able to run on green methanol. Rival container shipper CMA CGM is expecting 24 bio-methanol-powered, e-methanol ready vessels to be delivered by 2027 In a grey,...
Birth Rate in Singapore falls to record low, only 35,605 babies in 2022
In response to queries on the declining TFR, National University of Singapore sociologist Tan Ern Ser remarked that likely factors include children increasingly not being seen as part of retirement planning, while the cost of raising them has risen in an increasingly...