Global insurance trends

Beazley Risk Survey Makes Interesting Reading

Risk is sometimes about perception, rather than reality. Certainly the actual threat to life from Covid-19 was over-stated during the early part of the response. Perhaps deliberately so. So that climate of fear guided `expert’ […]

Technology

Insurers: Do You Need to Track Fixed Assets & Cargo?

NASA award-winning software company Skytek today launched their new Satellite Club, created to make imagery from satellites more accessible for the insurance industry. The Club gives members access to information derived in real time from […]

Opinion

Opinion: Marine Risks in the Gulf & Middle East Region

Simon Dempsey, Marine Claims Executive at Meridian Risk Solutions, gives advice on dealing with War Risk claims and assesses what the current volatile situation in the Gulf region may mean for insurers; Following a period […]

Global insurance trends

Gulf Tensions Set to Increase Insurance Costs in Marine Sector

Amidst heightened tensions in the Middle East, an Iranian oil tanker ‘Sinopa’ has been damaged by what Iranian media said was a rocket attack. Whilst the explosion caused an oil spill into the Red Sea, […]

Big Data

AON Risk Report Looks at Potential Threats Around the World

Risk is a notoriously difficult thing to calculate accurately. As the insurance industry changes and Artificial Intelligence is used to assess consumers, businesses and nations, it will be interesting to see how much weight AI […]