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Insurance rates in India, Middle East and Africa decline in Q42025: Marsh’s Global Insurance Market Index
Property rates in India experienced decreases between 15% to...
Zurich Insurance set to take over Beazley for $11 billion
Beazley’s board “has concluded that the financial terms of the...
CrowdStrike: Delta Air to seek compensation over IT outage
The cyber outage led to more than 2,200 flight cancellations on July 19 and Delta has canceled over 6,000 flights so far since then.CrowdStrike's "Falcon Sensor" software had caused Microsoft Windows to crash and display a blue screen, known informally as the "Blue...
ICICI Lombard General to partner with Karnataka Bank
ICICI Lombard has announced its collaboration with Karnataka Bank.The entire range of insurance products of ICICI Lombard General Insurance will now be accessible across Karnataka Bank's 915 branches, reaching over 13 million customers nationwide.
Jessica Schappell appointed as Beazley’s APAC head
Jessica Schappell The risks facing the region are getting more complex and a recent Beazley report found that 44% of businesses in Singapore believe they operate in a high-risk environment. London: Beazley, the leading specialist insurer, announced the appointment of...
Insured losses from CrowdStrike outage could reach $1.5 bln, CyberCube says
Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter said that insurers may face claims on directors and officers’ and property insurance as a result of the outage, in addition to cyber insurance claims Global insured losses from last week’s massive IT outage are likely to range from...
Global IT outage: Enhancing cyber resilience
The incident highlights the need to shift our perception of cybersecurity from a mere IT issue to the broader concept of cyber resilience as an integral part of business resilience. In the face of a cyberattack, businesses should be able to recover fast from an...
Global IT outage: A ‘huge wake-up call’ for cyber insurance industry
Insurers are expecting a "wave of notifications" in the coming days, and losses are likely to be seen under business interruption and dependent business interruption insuring clauses, Acrisure Re said in its bulletin. Insurers may also suffer "bricking losses" if the...
Insured losses from CrowdStrike’s outage likely total $540 million to $1.08 billion, says insurer Parametrix
Fortune 500 firms excluding Microsoft to see $5.4 bln in CrowdStrike losses LONDON: U.S. Fortune 500 companies, excluding Microsoft will face $5.4 billion in financial losses from the recent CrowdStrike outage, insurer Parametrix said on Wednesday. CrowdStrike's...
18 killed as plane crashes during takeoff at Kathmandu airport
The plane caught fire after skidding off the runway at Kathmandu airport and crashing into a field east of the runway," the airport official added Kathmandu: A private airlines' Pokhara-bound plane crashed during takeoff at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA)...
CrowdStrike Chaos: (Re)Insurers could withstand preliminary loss estimates, says Fitch
``We expect claims will be mostly within the retentions of primary insurers,'' said Fitch Cyber risk remains difficult for insurers to assess due to the dynamic root causes of claims. Challenges include a lack of effective, widely accepted modeling tools and a limited...
PSU general insurance industry turns profitable with a combined profit of Rs 7558 crore in Fy 24
Ministry of Finance is yet to receive any proposals on wage revision of employees of six general insurers from the GIPSA, the coordinating agency for PSU general insurers,Pankaj Chaudhary, minister of state, Ministry of Finance said in Lok Sabha on Monday New Delhi:...