Orient Insurance Loses Bid to Recover Payout for Dubai Hotel Fire September 23, 2022 By Malak Harb DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – An insurance company that was ordered to pay more than a billion dirhams in...
High-Rise Building Catches Fire in United Arab Emirates May 7, 2020 A high-rise tower caught fire Tuesday in the United Arab Emirates and authorities said it wasn’t immediately clear what caused...
Door From London’s Deadly Grenfell Tower Fails Fire Safety Test March 16, 2018 Police say a door from a London high-rise that went up in flames, killing 71 people, has failed an expert...
London Police Eye Criminal Charges Related to Grenfell Tower Disaster December 14, 2017 London police are considering a variety of criminal charges related to the June fire at Grenfell Tower that killed 71...
Insurers Weigh Premium Hikes for UK’s Tall Buildings After Grenfell Tower Fire October 23, 2017 By Carolyn Cohn Insurers are considering raising premiums for tall buildings in Britain with flammable cladding panels and no sprinklers or even excluding...
Compensation for London’s Grenfell Fire Victims May Be Capped at $5M: Reuters October 18, 2017 By Tom Bergin The bill for compensating families of those who died in the Grenfell Tower fire in London may be as low...
AIG Discloses It Could Face Claims from London’s Grenfell Tower Fire August 4, 2017 By Katherine Chiglinsky and Natasha Rausch American International Group Inc., the provider of commercial insurance, told regulators it could face claims costs from the Grenfell Tower...
Fire Sweeps Through Dubai’s Tallest Residential Tower – Its 2nd Incident in 2 Years August 4, 2017 By William Maclean A fire ripped through one of the world’s tallest residential towers in Dubai on Friday, the latest in a series...
Australia’s New South Wales to Inspect High-Rise Cladding over Fire Safety July 31, 2017 By Benjamin Cooper Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) government will inspect more than 1,000 residential and commercial towers that may have potentially unsafe...
Grenfell Tower Insurer, Protector Forsikring, Raises Claims Estimate to $65M July 10, 2017 By Ole Petter Skonnord The insurer of London’s Grenfell Tower, where at least 80 people died in a devastating fire, raised its estimate for...