Leaked Document Warned of Fuel, Food, Medicine Shortages If No-Deal Brexit August 19, 2019 By Kate Holton and William James Britain will face shortages of fuel, food and medicine if it leaves the European Union without a transition deal, according...
Russia’s Yandex Accelerates Driverless Car Testing August 19, 2019 By Nadezhda Tsydenova Yandex, a Russian equivalent to Google, said it is considering expanding its fleet of self-driving cars to up to 1,000...
Novo Nordisk to Fight Danish Shareholder Lawsuit Seeking $1.75 Billion August 19, 2019 By Nikolaj Skydsgaard Danish insulin-maker Novo Nordisk said it would fight a lawsuit filed in a Danish court on Friday which alleges the...
Tokio Marine Joins Singapore Insurtech Program August 19, 2019 Japanese property/casualty insurer Tokio Marine Holdings announced a partnership with Plug and Play’s Insurtech program in Singapore. With this new...
AXA XL Adds Zurich’s Arezes as Senior Underwriter for Large Property in Canada August 16, 2019 AXA XL has added Jennifer Arezes to its property insurance team in Canada. Arezes is based in Toronto and will...
Greek Firefighters Battle Multi-Day Blaze in Nature Reserve August 16, 2019 By Elena Becatoros Greek authorities sent reinforcements Thursday to firefighters battling a major forest fire in a nature reserve on the island of...
Nepal Government Panel Wants Mount Everest Hikers to Have Experience, Insurance August 16, 2019 A Nepal government committee formed after a bad mountaineering season on Mount Everest has recommended requiring climbers to have scaled...
Deaths of Soccer Star Sala and Pilot Linked to Carbon Monoxide Leak in Plane August 16, 2019 Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala and his pilot were exposed to dangerous levels of carbon monoxide before their small plane...
42% of $44 Billion Global Catastrophe Losses in First Half Were Insured: Swiss Re August 16, 2019 Natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in the first half of 2019 were responsible for USD $44 billion of economic losses...
Insured Losses in China from Typhoon Lekima Will Exceed CNY 6 Billion: AIR August 16, 2019 Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimates insured losses in China from Typhoon Lekima will exceed CNY 6 billion. Lekima...