by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 2, 2020 | International News, Reinsurance
KANSAS CITY: Lockton Companies has announced the appointment of Pradip Ghosh as President of Lockton Capital Markets(LCM), effective September 1, 2020. Ghosh has over 20 years of experience in the insurance, financial services, and asset management industries and will...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 2, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
OLDWICK, N.J: AM Best’s continued stable outlook on the global reinsurance industry is reflective of negative market forces, predominantly driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, social inflation and previous years’ property catastrophe events, being offset by...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 2, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Antibody levels against the novel coronavirus rose and then held steady for up to four months in more than 90% of recovered COVID-19 patients in Iceland, according to a study published on Tuesday. In previous studies, antibody levels dropped sharply within a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 2, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally of cases galloped past 37 lakh on Wednesday with 78,357 new instances of the disease reported in a day, while the number of recoveries crossed 29 lakh pushing the recovery rate to 76.98 per cent, the Union health ministry data...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 2, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
United Nations: The coronavirus pandemic has brought hard times for many farmers and has imperiled food security for many millions both in the cities and the countryside. United Nations experts are holding an online conference beginning Tuesday to brainstorm...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 2, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
GENEVA: India reported the most new COVID-19 cases of any country in the past week, its nearly half a million fresh infections pushing the global tally up by 1 percent, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. Overall global new deaths in the past...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 2, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Every person you meet is a potential carrier of the disease — a doctor said to me when I visited the town of Bhagalpur and its nearby villages to cover the raging coronavirus pandemic in India's countryside. Dr. Kumar Gaurav, a psychiatrist who...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 1, 2020 | Health, Indian News
New Delhi: Standalone health insurance company—Religare Health Insurance today rebranded itself as Care Health Insurance. The rebranding is aimed at further building on opportunities to deliver the best possible ‘Care’ to its...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 1, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Pandemic
LONDON/NEW YORK: The COVID-19 pandemic will mean holiday-goers will shy away from larger hotels for the foreseeable future in favor of boutiques and home rentals, the CEO of India-based hospitality startup Oyo Hotels and Homes told Reuters.The comments by...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 1, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic, Technology
Alphabet Inc’s Google and Apple Inc on Tuesday announced a new system that will enable public health authorities to use smartphones to assist in contact tracing without having to build an app. The new system – called Exposure Notifications Express...
