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AM Best revises outlooks to positive for ICICI Lombard General Insurance
Despite its lack of underwriting profitability, ICICI Lombard has...
Bermudian reinsurer Partner Re ventures into India’s GIFT City
``PartnerRe’s GIFT City branch will provide support to Indian...
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:...
Somali piracy revives sharply after yrs of quiet
There were eight acts of piracy and hijackings in the first half of this year near the east African country, the International Maritime Bureau, a Kuala Lumpur- and London-based monitoring organization, said in a report Somali piracy — the scourge of merchant shipping...
CrowdStrike Crisis: Negotiating ‘Blue Screen of Death’ (BSOD) loop
Clear understanding and documentation of cyber insurance policies are essential to determine coverage in connection with such incidents. Insurers could see that their incident response and claims handling teams are stretched thin given the scale of this incident, as...
Crop insurance to see growth from 2024 onwards, govt tech push to boost sector: Economic Survey 2023-24
"Agriculture premiums will likely rise from 2024 onwards, with an average real premium growth of 2.5 per cent over the medium term, supported by improvements in insurance infrastructure such as mobile applications and remote sensing for crop loss monitoring," the...
Over 34.7 cr Ayushman Bharat cards generated: Economic Survey
“Considering the multiplier effect of low costs, the scheme saves more than 1.25 lakh crore of out-of-pocket expenditure for poor and deprived families,” Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said New Delhi: More than 34.7 crore Ayushman Bharat cards have been...
Insurers face business interruption claims after global tech outage
"Some cyber insurance policies exclude non-malicious events, and there are waiting periods and deductibles that businesses will have to consider before making a claim with their insurance carriers," said Nir Perry, CEO at CyberWrite, a cyber insurance risk platform...