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Global insurance prms exceed a record $5 trillion in 2018, to grow by 3% in 2019/20:Swiss Re Study

The non-life sector faces a fundamental structural shift over the next decades,with a possible decline in premiums from motor, the dominant line of business today. This potential decline will come as a result of the ongoing evolution of advanced driver-assistance systems and self-driving car technologies, which are expected to lead to lower claims, and so also lower premium rates and volumes in motor.

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Global #MeToo movement provides lots of work for London’s top lawyers

Horacio Bernardes Neto, president of the International Bar Association that represents attorneys, said in May that law firms hired to advise corporations on how to handle harassment allegations needed to get their own hiring and workplace behavior in order because of the risk being called out for hypocrisy, after a global survey found one in three female attorneys has been sexually harassed at work.

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Vatican defends secrecy of Catholic Confessions amid priest sex scandals

Cardinal Piacenza noted that Francis himself earlier this year called confessional secrecy indispensable, and quoted the pontiff as saying “no human power has jurisdiction” over that secrecy. Piacenza said the tribunal felt it “urgent to recall in the first place the absolute inviolability of the sacramental secrecy, which is based on divine right and admits no exception.”

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First blockchain-based agricultural insurance policies for smallholder farmers in Sri Lanka

Historically, there were major barriers preventing farmers from utilising insurance, including the lack of affordable and reliable insurance products, a lack of understanding about how insurance would help a farmer survive, and when and how a claim would be paid. This new blockchain technology directly addresses those issues as the insurance products are automated

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