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Cyber Insurance: Ransomware remains biggest driver of claims
``Asian businesses with overseas presence should also consider...
China’s EV boom saddles its auto insurers with large losses
Despite EV drivers paying anywhere from 20% higher to double the...
World Bank wants catastrophe insurance in new loans for disaster hit countries: Report
Ajay Banga,President,World Bank World Bank President Ajay Banga will unveil measures, including the pause on repayments and embedding catastrophe insurance into new loans in a speech in Paris on Thursday, the newspaper reported French President Emmanuel Macron is...
Aon, Lloyd’s and VIG in pact to commit to Ukraine insurance
The commitment follows an announcement earlier in the day by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on a new framework for war risk insurance FRANKFURT: Aon PLC, Lloyd’s and Vienna Insurance Group will join forces to provide coverage for Ukraine to support its...
Analysis- Record plane orders raise the stakes in India’s aviation boom
With a total of almost 1,000 jet orders between them, IndiGo and Air India are betting an economic boom and growing middle class will spur demand for domestic air travel, and new jets will help them grab a bigger share of international traffic The number of domestic...
Digital crop survey in 19 UP districts
The development comes less than a month after the Centre signed an agreement with six states, including Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Rajasthan, to begin the digital crop survey Additional Chief Secretary (agriculture) Devesh Chaturvedi said that...
Cyclone Biparjoy: Total insurable losses less than $100 million, says CoreLogic
Flooding at residential structures will comprise the majority of insurable loss, said Jon Schneyer, senior catastrophe response manager at CoreLogic California: CoreLogic, providing financial, property, and consumer information, analytics, and business intelligence,...
London’s Excel Centre wins insurance ruling on COVID-19 losses
Law firm Stewarts, which represented the owners of the ExCel Centre, said the ruling “could potentially affect hundreds of thousands of policyholders.” “Policyholders whose BI losses remain uncompensated should now revisit their policy documents to consider whether...
Rising cyberttack on EU’s renewable sector, nightmares for European power chiefs
Sophistication of Russian cyberattacks against Ukraine had provided a wake-up call to how vulnerable digitalized and interconnected power systems could be to attackers. They’re nervously monitoring a hybrid war where physical energy infrastructure has already been...
IRDAI asks insurers to put up special measures for any cyclone Biparjoy claims
It needs to be ensured that all claims are surveyed immediately and claim payments/ on account payments are disbursed at the earliest and in any case not exceeding the stipulated timeline Hyderabad: Insurance regulator IRDAI has asked the chiefs of all general...
Rule changes to bolster insurance penetration, more players to enter the sector soon: IRDAI Chief
Debasish Panda, Chairman, IRDAI Four new firms have entered the nation’s insurance sector in the last year, and a few more are in various stages of enrollment, indicating the business environment is favorable, according to Debasish Panda, Chairman, IRDAI. Assets under...
US cyber insurance premiums soars by 50% as ransomware attacks increase
Ransomware attacks soared last year, pushing demand for coverage after the pandemic-induced work-from-home era also made remote workers more vulnerable to digital attacks. Those attacks also spurred companies and individuals to adopt more robust cybersecurity measures...