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Labour reforms, focus on informal workers, other policies on cards in 2025
The four labour codes on social security, industrial relations,...
Embracing 2025: Year of Purpose & Opportunities
2024 has been a pivotal year for the Indian insurance industry,...
Omicron spreads in India’s big cities but hospitalisations still low
Nearly 90% of new patients had shown no symptoms and only 8% were hospitalized, city officials said in a daily health bulletin. COVID-19 cases nearly doubled in a day in Delhi to 10,665 on Wednesday, but the state said only 7% of its COVID beds were occupied New...
Lloyd’s creates ‘Product Launchpad’ to replace the ‘Product Innovation Facility’
The rebrand has been supported by the twenty-five members of the initiative from the Lloyd’s market. With a capacity of £150m, several success stories have emerged, for example: a parametric business interruption product for cloud outages, launched by Parametrix in...
India reports 1st Omicron death; “Exponential rise” in COVID cases, R naught value higher than 2nd wave peak: Centre
Maharashtra, West Bengal, Delhi, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Jharkhand and Gujarat are emerging as the states of concern ''We are now facing an exponential rise in (the number of) COVID-19 cases and we believe that largely, it is being driven by Omicron,...
U.S. reports nearly 1 mln COVID-19 cases in a day, setting global record
The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that evidence thus far suggests Omicron is causing less severe illness. Nevertheless, public health officials have warned that the sheer volume of Omicron cases threatens to overwhelm hospitals, some of which are already...
India’s logs new 58,097 Covid cases,the highest since June
A total of 2,135 cases of Omicron variant of coronavirus have been detected across 24 states and UTs . Maharashtra recorded the maximum number of 653 cases followed by Delhi at 464, Kerala 185, Rajasthan 174, Gujarat 154 and Tamil Nadu 121 cases New Delhi: A total of...
Explainer:How Tesla weathered global supply chain issues that knocked rivals
"We're designing and building so much more of the car than other OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) who will largely go to the traditional supply base and like I call it, catalog engineering. So it is not very adventurous," Musk said Tesla Inc's ability to design...
COVID-19 insured loss of $44 bln is third largest catastrophe loss -Howden
"There's only so much event cancellation coverage out there, there’s only so much civil action coverage out there, and when you get to $40 billion, that's pretty much exhausting what was underwritten,” said David Flandro, head of analytics at Howden London: Insured...
Jan 1 Renewals: Late placements and nat cat losses see mixed outcomes, Gallagher Re
The market appears to have moved on from the Covid-19 claims of 2020 as primary companies’ claims reserves stabilise and reinsurance recoveries start to move through the market with an increasing number being settled Reinsurers have managed to achieve further...
Surge in cases indicative of third Covid wave in India: Expert
Noting that in the major metro centres and the surrounding regions, the new variant of the virus is accounting for over 50 per cent of the fresh cases. The galloping increase in the number of Covid cases over the last one week is indicative of the third wave, as is...
Jan 1 renewals: majority of placements were orderly,Guy Carpenter
Capacity was ample for many lines but more constrained for retrocession and some components of property, including loss-impacted lower catastrophe layers and aggregates.Capacity for cyber aggregates was also limited Emerging risk factors, including climate change,...