Covid-19 in the top 10 worst epidemics in the last 50 years

2019-nCoV or coronavirus evoked a state of concern worldwide. WHO classified the epidemic as a global public health emergency.…

Global insurance market in 2020

The world insurance market, life and non-life classes of business combined, remains stable in 2020 despite the Covid-19 health…

Error and medical third-party liability insurance

The concept of medical error dates back to Hippocratic Oath and to the corpus of the profession's code of ethics. It remains…

Cybercrime, a new threat to the economy

Cybercrime has been on the rise since the beginning of the health crisis...

List of major cyber attacks in 2020

Solvency I and II

The single European market has been developing since the 1970s a common directive called Solvency I. This directive was designed…

Maritime transport: the race towards gigantism

The incident involving the container ship Ever Given, which was blocked for six days on one of the busiest shipping lanes in the…

Maritime gigantism: the race for profitability at the expense of safety

One might think that the Ever Given misadventure would bring shipowners' unbridled race...