Category: Specialty Insurance

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Cyber insurance now offered for protection against social media hackers

Social Media cyber insurance

Facebook and Twitter account attacks are causing notable damage, but coverage is now available. A company in the United Kingdom has just released a first of its kind form of cyber insurance in order to help protect against hackers that break into Facebook and Twitter accounts. This social media coverage is the first of this nature in the U.K. The policy provides services that are geared specifically toward protecting against damage to a reputation, identity theft, and hijacked accounts. This has made insurance news across the country and around the…

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Business insurance claim regarding Michael Jackson’s cancelled concerts dropped

Micheal Jackson Business insurance claim over cancelled concert

The concert promoter has dropped the claim over the unfinished comeback performances. Following the death of Michael Jackson in June 2009, AEG Live, the King of Pop’s concert promoter filed a $17.5 million business insurance claim due to the cancelled performances on the comeback tour, but this filing has now been dropped. The claim had been made against Lloyds of London for the losses it faced that year. The insurer had been refusing to pay the claim because it stated that AEG had been making false claims about the health…

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Crop insurance in Midwest is increasingly strained

Julie Campbell
Corn Belt - GMO Crop Insurance program

The losses from these claims are continuing to grow in the Corn Belt. After a growing season that has already led to exceptionally high crop insurance losses as a result of droughts, the temperatures in the triple digits are now sending a new wave of claims through the Corn Belt, with record losses being predicted by experts in the industry. This problem has been made worse by the changes that decreased the premiums of some growers. It has been estimated that the crop insurance losses will reach almost $15 billion…

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Insurance news from Iran shows oil tankers are bypassing embargoes

oil Insurance News

Iranian vessels are now easily skirting around the E.U. sanctions. Though the sanctions from the E.U. against Iranian oil tanker coverage had been making insurance news with their efficacy when they were first set into place in July, the Middle Eastern country has since shown that it is no longer struggling with those bans. The coverage embargoes are no longer in the way of Iran’s crude shipments. According to the Central Insurance of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s deputy head for planning and development, Rahim Mosaddeq, “Most of the sanctions…

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Crop insurance losses resulting from the U.S. droughts could top $20 billion

Julie Campbell
Crop insurance program 2014

The industry continues to tally up the totals from predictions, which grow ever higher. The wide sweeping droughts that have destroyed the plants on farmers’ fields across the United States are racking up a significant bill, as AIR Worldwide has predicted that this single natural catastrophe have likely already bring about crop insurance losses worth over $13 billion. That disaster modeler forecasts that these losses may reach $20 billion by the end of the year. The data from AIR has shown that once the federal government recoveries have been accounted…

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