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Update: Uber Braces for UK Legal Battles that Could End Its Reign in London
Jul 21 2020 // Uber Technologies Inc. is bracing for a long summer of legal battles that could see the end of its reign in London and entitle its drivers to a long list of workers’ rights. A dispute over whether its drivers should...
Anglo-Australian Miner BHP Faces $6.3B Lawsuit in UK over 2015 Brazil Dam Disaster
Jul 15 2020 // More than 200,000 Brazilian people and groups will next week kick off a 5 billion-pound ($6.3 billion) lawsuit against Anglo-Australian miner BHP in Britain over a 2015 dam failure that led to Brazil’s worst...
Just One-Quarter of UK Firms Are Prepared for End-of-Year Brexit Transition: Survey
Jul 14 2020 // Only one-quarter of business leaders say their organizations are fully ready for the end of the Brexit transition period, according to a survey by the Institute of Directors. Nearly half of the 978 company directors polled...
UK Proposals for Financial Services ‘Unacceptable:’ EU Brexit Negotiator
Jul 1 2020 // LONDON – British proposals to give the City of London access to the European Union are “unacceptable” because they seek to maintain the benefits of the single market without the obligations, the...
More Than 10,000 People Join Lawsuit Against EasyJet for Massive Data Breach
Jun 24 2020 // EasyJet Plc faces a lawsuit over a data breach disclosed last month that potentially exposed private details of 9 million passengers. More than 10,000 people have joined the suit since it was filed last month, according to...
UK, EU Likely to Miss Deadline for Accessing Financial Services After Brexit: Sources
Jun 24 2020 // Britain and the European Union are set to miss their end-June deadline for assessing future cross-border trade in financial services, leaving just six months before a potentially messy UK exit, financial industry and EU...
Some Facts About London’s Role in Insuring the Slave Trade
Jun 19 2020 // London is facing up to its role in insuring the slave trade as part of a sweeping global reassessment of history and racism. This reappraisal was triggered by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a...
No-Deal Brexit Would Deepen Economic Pain for UK’s Coronavirus-Hit Companies
Jun 16 2020 // Trade talks between the EU and UK have struggled in recent weeks, increasing the prospect that Britain departs the bloc without a deal and that businesses face an extreme shock when the divorce takes effect. It’s a...
No-Deal Brexit Could Hobble UK’s Recovery from Coronavirus Pandemic
Jun 3 2020 // The threat of a no-deal Brexit is back — and with it the risk that the UK economy’s shaky recovery from the coronavirus pandemic will be hobbled. As British and European Union negotiators head into the last...
When UK Insurers, Banks Emerge from Lockdown, Their Employees Face New Normal
May 21 2020 // Limits on elevators, thermal imaging and temperature checks will greet a first wave of traders and bankers in Britain preparing to return to offices under new norms to tackle the coronavirus. Britain’s financial...
UK’s Aviva Expects COVID-19-Related Claims of Nearly $200 Million
May 21 2020 // British insurer Aviva expects 160 million pounds ($195 million) in claims related to the coronavirus pandemic and weaker second quarter sales, it said on Thursday, as government lockdowns aimed at containing the virus hit...
Brexit Talks Become Acrimonious as UK Slams EU’s ‘Unworthy’ Trade Offer
May 20 2020 // Boris Johnson’s chief Brexit negotiator accused the European Union of offering the UK only a “low-quality” trade deal as talks between the two sides descended into acrimony. In a dramatic intervention in...
Coronavirus Blocks Farm Laborers from Working in UK – in Possible Foretaste of Brexit
May 18 2020 // Britain’s fruit and vegetable farmers have long dreaded their country’s exit from the European Union, worrying that it would keep out the tens of thousands of Eastern European workers who come every year to...
Willis Paints COVID-19 Insurance Loss Big Picture: It’s a Wash or Historic Catastrophe
May 7 2020 // If the novel COVID-19 pandemic is brought under control soon, the disease’s impact on the insurance industry as a whole may be pretty much a wash. It not, the industry may be on the verge of an historic...
Forced Payouts of Pandemic Claims Risk Insurers’ Financial Stability: Regulators
May 7 2020 // Forcing retroactive payouts to cover business disruption losses resulting from the coronavirus pandemic could ultimately put financial stability at risk, global insurance regulators said. Disputes over cover for businesses...
Two Law Firms Seek British Businesses to Join Biz Interruption Lawsuit Against Allianz
May 6 2020 // Two law firms said on Tuesday they were gathering companies in Britain for a potential group lawsuit against German insurer Allianz for rejecting business interruption claims during the coronavirus pandemic. Edwin Coe and...
Brexit Trade Talks Back on Agenda After COVID-19 Hiatus, Facing Tight Timetable
May 1 2020 // Banks are dusting off their no-deal Brexit plans as concerns deepen that Britain and the European Union won’t agree a trade deal by December as the COVID-19 pandemic compounds fundamental disagreements over future...
Conspiracy Theorists Set Fire to Europe’s 5G Network Towers, Claiming Link to COVID-19
Apr 22 2020 // The CCTV footage from a Dutch business park shows a man in a black cap pouring the contents of a white container at the base of a cellular radio tower. Flames burst out as the man jogs back to his Toyota to flee into the...
UK Insurers, Banks Are Weathering Effects on Capital of COVID-19 Crisis: BoE’s Woods
Apr 16 2020 // Britain’s banks have enough funds to keep lending to the economy even under the deep recession scenario outlined by a government watchdog, Bank of England Deputy Governor Sam Woods said on Wednesday. The BoE has...
Coronavirus Pandemic Reveals the Science of Risk That Shapes Our Lives
Mar 31 2020 // Hours after the results of a risk model reached the public, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and U.S. President Donald Trump asked nearly 400 million people to upend their lives. A group of epidemiologists at Imperial...
