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1 June renewals: Rate moderation continues, with nuanced shifts across towers, reports Howden Re
The 1 June 2025 renewal reflects a market transitioning from...
Emerging Talent Trend: Skills to succeed in a changing insurance industry
In US insurance industry, data scientists are emerging as the...
Too soon to call end to COVID-19 emergency, GAVI chief says
A World Health Organization (WHO) body meets every few months to decide whether the new coronavirus, which emerged three years ago in China's Wuhan, still represents a "public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC)". Reuters: The head of the GAVI global...
Aditya Birla Capital mulls selling its insurance brokerage unit
The publicly-traded company has held talks with potential buyers about a sale of Aditya Birla Insurance Brokers Ltd. as it failed to scale up the 19-year-old business, the people said, asking not to be identified as the information is not public. Mumbai: Aditya Birla...
Key risk trends in 2023:Potential Recession, Cyber and ESG
Plunging growth rates, surging inflation, the energy crisis, continuing stock market volatility and ongoing supply chain issues are monitored closely by D&O underwriters as they could cause liquidity and profitability squeezes in many sectors and fuel rising...
UK plans to repeal EU-era Solvency II rules to allow insurers to invest in UK infrastructure
The changes are a far cry from the dramatic reforms in the 1980s that made London a global financial center and the far-reaching changes mooted when Liz Truss was prime minister London: The UK set out a package of financial services reforms that cuts across dozens of...
‘Please protect yourself’: China wrestles with COVID surge
China's controls kept its infection rate low but crushed already weak economic growth and prompted complaints about the rising human cost. The official death toll is 5,235, compared with 1.1 million for the United States. China's official total case count of 363,072...
With Munich Re support African Risk Capacity launches parametric cover against epidemic risks
ARC( African Risk Capacity) Group and its partners finalized the development of the cover, which will provide parametric insurance to African Union (AU) member states for three selected pathogens responsible for Ebola virus disease, Marburg virus disease, and...
Turkey oil tanker logjam snarls Russia oil sanctions
Ankara has declined to scrap a new insurance inspection rule it implemented at the beginning of the month despite days of pressure from Western officials Turkey emerged as a critical stumbling block to a complex international plan to deprive Russia of wartime oil...
Vaccine’s benefits far outweigh risks associated with Long Covid
Based on data collected during the first two Covid waves from participants in the UK Biobank study, the research report published in the journal Heart, states that in the case of patients who were hospitalised, there has been a 118 times rise in the number of deaths....
PM Modi to lay foundation stone for National Institute for One Health in Nagpur today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi With increased interaction between humans and animals -- domestic and wild, and influenced by climate change, human health can no longer be seen in isolation. More than half of all infections that people get can be spread by animals. In...
Identification of drought-hit farmers to begin soon: Soren
Hemant Soren,,Chief Minister,Jharkhand ''Around 30 lakh registered farmers will be provided benefits under the crop relief scheme soon. As many as 1.13 lakh farmers have already been identified in Palamu district for the scheme," he said Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief...