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Risk Management

Obesity is deadlier than smoking; it can lead to cancer

“Our children could be a smoke-free generation, but we’ve hit a devastating record high for childhood obesity, and now we need urgent Government intervention to end the epidemic. They still have a chance to save lives. Scientists have so far identified that obesity causes 13 types of cancer but the mechanisms aren’t fully understood. So further research is needed to find out more about the ways extra body fat can lead to cancer,” said Michelle Mitchell, the lead researcher of the study 

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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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Cyber Liability: the last frontier of the insurance

Buyers are turning to carriers for comprehensive pre-breach and post-breach cyber risk management services, and carriers are responding, either directly or by offering these services through third parties.  Some of these services include network vulnerability scanning, penetration testing both internally and externally of the network, assistance with business continuity planning, GDPR readiness and more

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Cyber risks are jeopardizing M&A Deals

Of more than 2,700 information technology and business decision makers surveyed by Forescout Technologies Inc. in seven countries, 53% reported that their organization had encountered a critical cybersecurity issue or incident that put an M&A deal in jeopardy. And 65% of respondents said they had experienced buyers’ remorse because of cybersecurity concerns after closing a deal.

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