by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 29, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Risk Management, Workplace/Employee Benefits
California’s attorney general and state and local agencies are investigating whether Amazon.com Inc. has taken adequate steps to protect its workers from the coronavirus pandemic, according to a court filing on Monday. Attorney General Xavier...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 29, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Policy
LONDON: Britain has announced a 500 million-pound ($647 million) fund to help television and film companies restart productions after companies complained they were unable to get insurance because of the coronavirus pandemic. Shoots shut down abruptly in March...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 29, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management, Technology
Americans are hanging on to their cars and trucks longer, pushing the average age of vehicles on the road to the highest level in nearly 20 years even before the coronavirus hit, according to new data from IHS Markit Ltd. That is not good for emissions or...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 29, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Regulation, Reinsurance
Hong Kong is on track to soon join the UK and Singapore as newly minted hubs for insurance-linked securities. This is a field long dominated by offshore jurisdictions such as Bermuda. The Hong Kong government introduced in March the Insurance (Amendment) Bill...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 29, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life
Singapore: With a mortality protection gap of $16.5 trillion in 2019,families in India, in the Asia Pacific region, are most vulnerable to financially cope with the loss of their breadwinners, according new Swiss Re Report. The mortality protection in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 28, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Risk Management
Floods caused by heavy monsoon rains in two of India’s poorest states have displaced or affected 8 million people and killed 111 since May, authorities said on Tuesday, at a time when coronavirus cases have swelled there. The Brahmaputra river in the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 28, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Tuesday warned against complacency about new coronavirus transmission in the northern hemisphere summer, saying that this virus did not behave like influenza that tended to follow seasonal trends. “People are still...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 28, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
PARIS: Global airlines cut their coronavirus recovery forecast on Tuesday, saying it would take until 2024 – a year longer than previously expected – for passenger traffic to return to pre-crisis levels.In an update on the pandemic’s crippling impact...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 28, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Life, Technology
HONG KONG, CHINA and VANCOUVER: Prudential Corporation Asia (Prudential) and PAI Health today announced that PAI Health's science-backed activity metric for heart health, known as Personal Activity Intelligence, will be featured in the Pulse by Prudential...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 28, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Pandemic
The lifting of COVID-19 lockdown in several states and continued adversities caused by the pandemic have instituted a new set of workforce demands, thus creating new economic opportunities across the country's industrial landscape, the world's largest...
