More than 81% of respondents surveyed say that technology has improved their access to health services, while 60% believe that it has led to better affordability. These were some of the findings from Prudential Corporation Asia's 'The Health of Asia Barometer' report written by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), which polled 5,000 adults across 13 markets in Asia.
In his welcome address, GIC Re chairman-cum-managing director Devesh Srivastava said that the COVID-19 pandemic was a huge challenge to the insurance sector in India and the basic definition of the protection gap was questioned.
A panel discussion chaired by Moody's Investors Service senior vice president, financial institutions group Benjamin Serra looked at insurance/reinsurance credit trends and rating outlooks for the industry.
SMEs in the UK are disappointed with the way insurers handled claims relating to COVID-19.
SCOR in partnership with CyberCube has adapted its CAT platform to serve its cyber risk assessment needs. The CAT platform is SCOR's internally developed platform designed to manage natural catastrophe risk accumulations.
The 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires in Australia are a wake-up-call demonstrating the extreme effects of climate change according to a new study which examines the factors that caused the disaster.
Willis Towers Watson has introduced two new cyber risk assessment services in response to the findings from its recent cyber claims insights report.
Climate change is likely to cause an uneven shifting of the tropical rain belt - a narrow band of heavy precipitation near the Equator - leading to increased flooding in parts of India according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
The breach of SolarWinds and its Orion platform software in December 2020 was the most notable cyber security event of 2020 according to Tenable's inaugural 2020 Threat Landscape Retrospective (TLR) report.
A trio of Covid-19 related risks ranks at the top of Allianz Risk Barometer 2021, reflecting potential disruption and loss scenarios companies are facing in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Business interruption (#1 with 41% responses) and Pandemic outbreak (#2 with 40%) are this year's top global business risks with Cyber incidents (#3 with 40%) ranking a close third.