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Global Claims: APAC accounts for 17 % of total value, fires & explosions cause largest losses for business: Allianz

“The report highlights the increasingly high values at risk for businesses and their insurers alike,” says Philipp Cremer, Global Head of Claims, AGCS. “In today’s interconnected and globalized business environment, financial losses are increasing due to geographical concentration of values – often in risk-exposed areas – and from the knock-on effects of global supply chains and networks. Looking to the future, new technologies bring business benefits but also risks and claims. However, they also provide an opportunity to prevent and mitigate losses and improve the claims settlement process for our customers.”

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Actuaries face uncertainty amid encroachment by Data Scientists

Seasoned actuaries often earn more than $200,000, and the field perennially ranks near the top of “best career” surveys. A Bankrate.com survey from this summer called actuarial science the most valuable bachelor’s degree based on pay and employment. However, industry conventions are rife with warnings that data scientists are encroaching on actuaries’ turf, and that their lack of speaking skills keeps them locked in bookish roles at insurers.

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Bombay HC asks New India to pay Rs 7.60 crore motor accident claim

The family members of the deceased, Ravindra Kulkarni, who was working as the chief executive officer of Tata Precision Industries — a Tata group company —based in Singapore and was earning more than 11,000 Singapore dollars (about Rs 3.34 lakh, as per the conversion rate relied by the HC) a month at the time, sought enhancement of the Rs 2.50-crore compensation amount granted by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, the insurance company pleaded for the rejection of the claim altogether.

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