Modern-day pirates find a formidable enemy in the British insurance industry

Piracy, a practice once thought long-dead is, in fact, alive and well today. Ongoing economic trauma has produced desperation in a number of nations throughout the world. People displaced by financial calamity have been flocking to the African country of Somalia, where they have been joining pirate bands. Somalia is an infamously unstable state which has served as a port of home for modern-day pirates that prey on shipments throughout the Indian Ocean. Pirates have, of course, run afoul of man law enforcement and military organizations, but their greatest enemy…

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