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Iran crash victims may need political backing in fight for damages

In theory, that means that while families of foreign-based victims who were returning home from Iran when the plane was shot down on Jan. 8 may get the full payout, those on a single ticket or who started their journey in Iran or Afghanistan – some victims were Afghans – may be entitled to only $25,000 under the Warsaw Convention, several lawyers said.

EU privacy regulators expected to raise fines under GDPR data protection rules

Regulators in France, Germany and Austria levied the biggest fines so far, while the Netherlands, Germany and the U.K. topped the list for the number of data breaches notified to their authorities, the survey by law firm DLA Piper found. France’s data protection commission, the CNIL, last January slapped Google with a 50 million-euro fine over transparency, information and consent failures.

Insurers want higher FDI and more tax incentives in the Budget 2020

 “Collectively as an industry, we do see a lack of parity in the tax treatment of pension products of life insurance companies and pension products under NPS. Both the products have similar objective of building long term savings for meeting retirement goals, hence, this disparity should be addressed by the government in the Union Budget 2020, agreed Tarun Chugh, MD & CEO, Bajaj Allianz Life

China’s mysterious respiratory virus spreads to health workers, different countries

“The risk from this virus causing pandemonium has increased because it is spreading from different countries, and we are now seeing that it can be more easily transmitted from person to person,” said Sanjaya Senanayake, associate professor of medicine at the Australian National University. In comparison with SARS, he said, “the one good factor, I guess, at the moment seems to be the low mortality rate.”

Financial Services CEOs in Davos complain they can’t save planet without clients’ help

Financial companies are under pressure to retreat from funding industries including coal-fired power, and the European Union is working on a so-called taxonomy governing sustainable investments. Lawrence Fink, who runs BlackRock Inc., last week pledged to incorporate environmental concerns into the asset manager’s investment process for both active and passive products.