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Insurance regulatory roundup In this article, we discuss three topical issues affecting the insurance ... Read more	Severe weather events present significant challenges for insurance market The number and severity of natural disasters so far in 2011 is unprecedented: Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South and North America have all been hugely affected. This article looks at how the Australian insurance market ... Read more
Insurance regulation in the Middle East As a result of demographic changes and a new surge in wealth, the Middle East has shown an increasing interest in mitigating risk through insurance. Despite concerns as to whether insurance accords with Islamic Sharia ... Read more	Safe sex? The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has found that the pricing of insurance and other financial services on the basis of the sex of the customer amounts to sexual ... Read more
How does insurance respond amid social and political upheaval? With much of the Arab world going through political and social upheaval, oil and commodity prices rising sharply, and sky-rocketing food prices putting much of the world's population back into extreme poverty, the risk of ... Read more	Insurance in Hong Kong: aligning regimes with global best practice The proposed Independent Insurance Authority (IIA) is set to align the regulatory regime with international standards. The Global Financial Centres Index 2010 places Hong Kong behind only London and New York as one of the top ... Read more
Business interruption insurance: importance of understanding cover Business interruption insurance is often a key component of a company’s business continuity plan. The insurance is designed to compensate an insured for the financial effect of the interruption or interference to that business as ... Read more	Protecting a company and its directors: D&O insurance The upheaval over the Past few years in the financial markets and the global economy has led to a climate of increased regulation worldwide, with greater exposures for directors and the companies by which they ... Read more
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