All Coronavirus articles – Page 16
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Analysis
FERMA supports creation of pandemic risk pools
Federation calls on brokers and insurers for flexibility during coronavirus crisis
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Analysis
Site closures pose fire risk - AGCS
The potential for damage from fire or lack of maintenance can increase in mothballed or idle production facilities and industrial plants
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Analysis
COVID-19: BI policies not fit for purpose - Ludlow
Business interruption needs to cover a broader range of intangible perils, argues Airmic CEO John Ludlow
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Analysis
Eurozone manufacturing plummets
”Large swathes of manufacturing could see downturns of the likes not seen before” - IHS Markit
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Features
COVID-19: Spotlight on security risks
Protests and unrests, strikes and fraud and scams are just some of the security risks likely to be exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic
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Analysis
Interview: Cyber exposures for a coronavirus age
As businesses around the world come to terms with a dispersed, remote workforce, Raf Sanchez, international breach response manager at Beazley, considers the cyber exposures
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Analysis
Fitch puts Lloyd’s of London on negative watch
The rating watch negative reflects “uncertainty and increased risk to Lloyd’s earnings and underwriting performance due to claims emanating as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic”
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Opinion
COVID-19: What happens when it’s over?
Even as the pandemic continues to unfold it is important for risk managers to focus on the aftermath, argues Hans Læssøe, founder of AKTUS and former risk manager at The Lego Group
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Analysis
COVID-19 causes phishing attacks to skyrocket
Phishing attacks have risen 667 percent in the UK in March compared to February, as malicious actors trick users with fake coronavirus alerts
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Opinion
Business and supply chain resilience during Covid-19
The intensity of the impacts on businesses and supply chains are expected to accelerate in the near term and then extend to the medium term, explains Adrian Simmonds, senior risk manager at QBE
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Analysis
COVID-19: The role of climate change
Climate change and growing extremes will likely increase the threat of global pandemics, according to AIR Worldwide
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Analysis
COVID-19: Hackers target hospitals
As a hospital in the Czech Republic is the target a major attack, cyber experts warn the healthcare sector is at threat
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Analysis
Fifth of companies lack business continuity plan
The number of UK firms lacking any contingency planning has halved in a space of a fortnight - CIPD
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Latest Issue
StrategicRISK Q1 2020: World on Lockdown
In this edition of StrategicRISK, we look at how businesses are responding to the COVID-19 crisis as the situation rapidly escalates around the world.
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Analysis
COVID-19: Car firms switch to ventilators
As they deal with the “worst crisis ever to impact the automotive industry”, firms are adapting their assembly lines to produce ventilators and other medical equipment
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Analysis
WTW launches COVID-19 tracking tool
Willis Towers Watson has updated its Global Peril Diagnostic modelling tool to provide up-to-date information on confirmed global COVID-19 cases alongside clients’ property portfolios.
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Analysis
Why pandemics fell off the risk radar
The risk of a global pandemic has risen in recent years, but the perception of that risk has not matched reality - WEF
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Analysis
Airmic cancels annual conference
The Association of Risk and Insurance Managers had taken the difficult decision to cancel its annual conference, which had been due to be held in Edinburgh in June
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Analysis
IRM and IOR - COVID-19 joint response
Covid-19 will be a ‘landmark’ case in how society deals with mega risks, but it is unlikely to be a one-off
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Analysis
WEF: COVID-19 prompts new supply chain thinking
China seems to be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel of fighting the COVID-19 outbreak domestically, but there is much more work to be done for companies to resume normal productions and reconfigure their supply chains