More on risk management of carbon nanotubes
These substances are on our emerging risks radar due to their similarity to asbestos fibres and potential health effects.In a previous blog (“Carbon nanotechnology observed to cause asbestos-like...
View ArticleCatch it Bin it Kill it
It gives simple, almost obvious, advice to help slow the spread of a flu pandemic. Many forms of pandemic spread via inhalation of water droplets created when we sneeze; if the droplets can be caught...
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Adaptation Works
For this report we teamed up with Risk Management Solutions, the catastrophe modelling company. We looked at how much a 30cm sea level rise will increase flood risk for high risk coastal properties...
View ArticleSo good they named it twice?
It must be a strange sight for any unsuspecting “civilian” arriving in the pretty German spa town during the last week of October. The sight of hundreds of men (and some women) in dark business suits...
View ArticlePostcard from Baden-Baden
No-one seems that surprised or bothered. Everyone is preoccupied. Reinsurers, cedants and brokers trek through the park in the centre of town, collars turned up on their overcoats, oblivious to the...
View ArticleCholera and climate change
According to an article [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7720163.stm] from the BBC scientists are now able to predict cholera outbreaks because they appear to follow seasonal increases in sea...
View ArticleEast Asias got talent but can it hold on to it
The East Asian Insurance Congress is the convivial talking shop that sees insurance bosses fly in from around the region to compare notes on their different colourful markets. On the one hand, there...
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Lloyd’s on “The ShakeOut”
The US has faced the reality of dealing with large natural catastrophes in recent years – most of them windstorm related. But what about earthquakes? At 10 am, 13 November 2008, millions of people in...
View ArticleBig Brother is watching you....sneeze
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b21a9dc2-bf48-11dd-ae63-0000779fd18c.html They will infect a number of individuals and then expose them to a variety of social situations to see how the flu is transmitted. I...
View ArticleAre industry CEOs resolved over Jan 1 rate increases
They will probably go something like this:• I will instruct my underwriters to increase premium rates• I will make sure my company achieves a technical profit across the board• I will try to invest...
View ArticleEurope is keeping an eye on the benefits and risks of nanotechnology
The European Union's Observatory-NANO (http://www.observatory-nano.eu) project has launched a new website to bring together work on the scientific, economic, societal, business, regulatory and risk...
View ArticleThe Exchange
On Tuesday of this week we announced that IBM had been chosen to develop the pilot for the Lloyd’s Exchange. The response to this news has been overwhelmingly positive and hopefully the ‘son of...
View ArticleFloogle—epidemic warnings from a search engine
They have noticed that the number of people making queries like ‘flu symptoms’ is strongly correlated with the number of doctors visits due to the flu in that region. Google explain their work...
View ArticleSatellite crash leaves liability issues lost in space
Around 6,000 satellites have been sent into orbit since 1957 and although they are in different orbits, it’s getting busy up there.Tuesday’s crash—the first ever between two large space objects—was...
View ArticleA change of banana skins
Investment performance is now the number one risk facing the insurance industry, according to the latest Centre for the Study of Financial Service (CSFI) Insurance Banana Skins survey, conducted in...
View ArticleRecord interest
It’s been a busy few weeks, the first three of our quarterly test phases have been fully subscribed by Managing Agents and IUA companies (but some slots still available for brokers), and attendance at...
View ArticleInsurance information standards? Do we really need them?
The short answer is: yes. The long answer? Like any global business, the London Market must continually enhance process efficiency to remain competitive. We do pride ourselves on our long traditions...
View Article2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast
With less than two weeks to go we thought this an opportune time to give you an update on how some of the most respected forecasters see the 2009 season. In recent years the first named storm of the...
View ArticleTerrorists mapping the next generation
The Aon 2009 Terrorism Threat Map from Aon Crisis Management shows a trend towards fewer terrorist attacks in the Middle East but increased activity in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, with Thailand...
View ArticleInsurers prepare for a class action pandemic
Research published recently by Lloyd’s and the RAND Institute for Civil Justice Europe has already raised the prospect that class actions are on their way to Europe from the United States, increasing...
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