by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Risk Management, Technology
The Armonk, New York-based company issued policy proposals Tuesday ahead of a Wednesday panel on AI to be led by Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. The initiative is designed to find a consensus on rules...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 22, 2020 | International News, Non-Life, Risk Management, Technology
U.S. insurers are ramping up cyber-insurance rates by as much as 25% and trying to curb exposure to vulnerable customers after a surge of costly claims, industry sources said. The changes follow a challenging year of hackers using malicious programs,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 22, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
Bangkok: News that a new virus that has afflicted hundreds of people in central China can spread between humans has rattled financial markets and raised concern it might wallop the economy just as it might be regaining momentum. Health authorities across...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 22, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
Davos: Young climate campaigner Greta Thunberg on Tuesday said a lot has happened since her campaign caught eyes of the world but "nothing has been done" actually to save the planet. "In one aspect, lots has happened since last year. The mass...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 21, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
As the financial industry comes under pressure to avoid funding dirty energy, the heads of Citigroup Inc. and Zurich Insurance Group AG said they need their clients to do more work too. “I say to our clients, ‘I don’t want to be the sharp end...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 21, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
China’s mysterious respiratory virus has caused six deaths and infected a number of medical workers, a sign the outbreak has entered a new phase with the illness spreading from person to person. Health-care workers contracting the new illness indicates...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 21, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: The Civil Aviation Ministry has directed seven airports including Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata to make arrangements for screening of passengers arriving from China in the wake of outbreak of an infection caused by a new strain of virus there....
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 21, 2020 | Indian News, Reinsurance
Mumbai: Bruce Carnegie-Brown, chairman, Lloyd’s of London,the largest specialised re/insurance marketplace in the world, has said India is very important to Lloyd’s business plans,as it represents a huge opportunity for...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 21, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Regulation
Hyderarbad: The Indian Insurance regulator IRDAI on Tuesday has decided to postpone the implementation of Indian Accounting Standard ( Ind-AS). which was supposed to start in 2020-21, indefinitely for the domestic insurance sector.Earlier,IRDAI’s in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 21, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
The global public overwhelmingly blames global warming on human activities with trust level declining in climate science, but Indians are the most trusting people in this regard, a new opinion poll showed on Tuesday. Indians and Bangladeshis have topped...
