The insurance market must resist the urge to automatically exclude difficult cyber risks and overly focus on a small set of 'improbable' systemic threats according to global insurance broker Marsh.
Half of UK businesses have reported a cyber incident or data breach in the past 12 months according to the UK Government's Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2024.
Zurich Insurance Group will no longer underwrite new oil and gas projects and is cracking down on clients planning to expand in metallurgical coal mining.
A new study has described the changes in ESG spending priorities towards human rights, modern slavery and community programmes by corporates as a 'seismic shift'.
Most insurance IT decision-makers (69%) plan to invest from $500,000 to $5m in AI in 2024 according to a new study.
The Canters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US estimates that around 48m Americans fall ill every year from a foodborne illness, with 128,000 hospitalisations and 3,000 deaths. The CDC ranks Norovirus as the main culprit when it comes to illness, closely followed by Salmonella, Clostridium perfringens and Campylobacter according to a new Hiscox global insight blog.
Insurance specific to electric vehicles (EVs) will be launched on 1 July 2024, the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) announced.
Asia's per capita burden of junked 'phones and other electronic and electrical gadgets is still low, but it struggles to contain this e-waste deluge that is gradually building up according to a new report by the UN.
Flooding could affect one out of every 50 residents in 24 coastal cities in the US by 2050 according to a new study.
Saline intrusion and drought in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam could cause $2.82bn in agricultural losses over a 10-year period according to a recent survey.