by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 5, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Paris: After absorbing the impacts of COVID, SCOR Global P&C approaches 2021 with a positive outlook and is making a number of changes to better accompany this anticipated improving market. “We aim at being more agile to faster adapt to the evolutions...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 5, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
WASHINGTON: The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal by energy companies including BP PLC, Chevron Corp, Exxon Mobil Corp and Royal Dutch Shell PLC contesting a lawsuit by the city of Baltimore seeking damages for the impact of global climate...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 5, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management, Technology
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday stressed on responsible use of artificial intelligence and protecting the world against weaponisation of AI by non-state actors. Speaking at the Raise 2020 conference, he said AI has a big role to play in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 5, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Pension & Social Security
New Delhi: The Defence Ministry has scrapped the requirement of minimum continuous service of seven years for grant of enhanced ordinary family pension (EOFP) to the next of kin of deceased defence personnel, an official statement said Monday. An EOFP is 50 per cent...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 5, 2020 | Articles, Eco/Invest/Demography, Non-Life, Pandemic, Reinsurance, Risk Management, Technology
By Shankar Garigiparthy, Country Manager and CEO, Lloyd’s India The COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed the way we live and work. Not only has this unprecedented pandemic caused a humanitarian crisis on a scale the world was unprepared for, but it...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 5, 2020 | Articles, Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Pandemic, Risk Management
By Joe Brock The coronavirus pandemic has sparked a rush for plastic. From Wuhan to New York, demand for face shields, gloves, takeaway food containers and bubble wrap for online shopping has surged. Since most of that cannot be recycled, so has the waste....
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 5, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
Mumbai: Recovery in domestic air passenger traffic continued in September with a sequential growth about 37-39 per cent in passenger volume in the previous month over August, ratings agency Icra said on Monday. The passenger volumes, however, plunged around 60...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 5, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
GENEVA: Roughly 1 in 10 people may have been infected with the novel coronavirus, leaving the vast majority of the world’s population vulnerable to the related COVID-19 disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. Mike Ryan, the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 4, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
BENGALURU: India’s coronavirus case tally rose by 74,442 in the last 24 hours to 6.63 million on Monday morning, data from the health ministry showed. Deaths from coronavirus infections rose by 903 to 102,685, the ministry said. India’s death toll from the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 4, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Risk Management, Technology
London: London’s public transport authority stripped Indian ride-hailing company Ola of its London operating licence, saying that the taxi app was not “fit and proper” to hold one, having put passenger safety at risk. Bengaluru-based Ola...
