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Sharing economy: massive risk potential remains unrealised, Lloyd’s Report
The sharing of assets and services creates new opportunities but also new risks. It can be difficult for traditional insurance coverages to be applied to disruptive sharing economy models as assets are fragmented – owned and shared amongst users – and new multi-party relationships between platforms, providers and consumers draw further questions around who is ultimately responsible for managing and mitigating risk.
India on track to record 50 consecutive months of double-digit air passenger growth: IATA
IRDA asks general insurers to strictly comply with existing reinsurance regulations
Modi to launch first health and wellness centre in Chhattisgarh
The Ayushman Bharat has twin missions. First, creating a network of Health and Wellness Centres to deliver comprehensive primary healthcare close to the community, and second, providing insurance cover to 40 per cent of India’s population, that is most deprived, for secondary and tertiary care including for instance, hospitalization costs.
IndiaFirst Life sees 43% jump in APE in 2017-18
India should take steps to ensure privacy in biometric identification programmes: IMF
Water taps may completely dry up in India, warns study
Political risk and violence, terrorist attacks on the rise:AON
Last year political risk increased in eleven countries, compared to only two countries that saw reduced risk, showing the persistence of political risk across the globe, highlighted by increases in political violence and supply chain disruption. Many countries’ risks of supply chain disruption have risen due to both climate shocks and weakening fiscal positions.
General Insurance industry exceeds Rs 1.5 trillion of prm, up 17 pc, in 2017-18
Car sales in March marginally up, passenger vehicles rise 6.38%: SIAM data
At USD 144 bn,2017 records highest ever global insured losses from disaster events, economic losses at USD 337 bn: Sigma
In the monsoon season. very heavy and long-running rains caused huge damage and loss of life in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Economic losses from a series of flood events in Bihar, Assam, West Bengal and other states in India were around USD 2.5 billion, and USD 0.6 billion in the Terai region of Nepal.
Govt working on action plan to push growth at district level
Safety violations in Indian skies down in 2017
"There are 352 number of violations of safety norms by airlines in 2016 whereas 269 numbers of violations were reported in 2017. Therefore, the number of safety violations has reduced in 2017 as compared to 2016,"Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha told...
InsurTech M&As in Asia surge to US$460 million in 2017, three times that of 2016: Willis Study
Turning to specific markets, China and India, home to much of the innovation in InsurTech, accounted for a significant 73% of transactions in 2017. Hong Kong, Singapore and other Asia markets continued to build on the momentum from 2016 and accounted for 27% of the transactions, representing a much more conspicuous contribution than in 2015 when they only amounted to 4% of the regional sum.
Allegations against ICICI Bank pose reputational risks: Fitch
Analysts point out that ICICI Bank, India’s largest private sector bank has the Directors and officers(D&O) liability Insurance of substantial amount. The D&O policy provides cover for the personal liability of Directors and Officers arising due to wrongful acts in their managerial capacity. Defence costs are also covered and are payable in advance of final judgment.
World Health Day: Visit a doctor every 6 months; use tech to track medication
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