Tag: international insurance

Iran offers oil shipment insurance to India to keep tankers sailing

G. Turner
Oil shipment insurance - Ship at sea carrying oil

Tehran’s efforts to overcome the returning U.S. sanctions include providing their own insurance coverage. Iran has started offering India oil shipment insurance to cover tankers operated by Iranian companies. The goal is to overcome the barriers occurring as a result of Indian insurance companies backing out of covering Iranian oil takers due to the return of sanctions from the United States. By providing their own cargo insurance for tankers headed to India, Tehran is hoping to keep tankers moving. As India is Iran’s second largest single oil customer – China…

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Allianz token in testing for internal money transfers

H. Cutner
Allianz Token - Blockchain - Digital Currency

The insurance giant is trying a new blockchain-based internal token to overcome funds transfer challenges. A new Allianz token is being tested by the insurance giant for moving money among its global affiliates. The concept used blockchain tech to allow the company’s worldwide locations to exchange money without currency conversions among other challenges. Allianz is using this token to get past a number of costs and inefficiencies related to international funds transfers. The Allianz token is meant to be used only within the company itself. It is not launching a…

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Self-driving car insurance for electric vehicles lacking in the United Kingdom

Marc
Electric car - self-driving car insurance

Axa claims that Great Britain may be lining up to miss out on driverless vehicle technology. A lack of appropriate infrastructure and a shortage of self-driving car insurance is setting up the United Kingdom to face serious challenges if it doesn’t want to get left behind with driverless electric cars, says the Axa insurance company. Autonomous vehicles are facing considerable barriers in the U.K. due to the lack of fast charging bays, among others. Drivers of electric cars are already facing struggles with the fact that there aren’t enough rapid…

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U.N. Security Council’s decision against North Korea includes insurance sanctions

H. Cutner
North Korea Insurance sanctions

The vote was unanimous throughout the council in response to Pyongyang’s choice to launch more ballistic missiles. The U.N. Security Council gave its unanimous approval to strengthening measures against North Korea, including insurance sanctions. This decision was in response to the country’s most recent ballistic missile launch. Pyongyang claims those it is now capable of sending those missiles to any part of the U.S. mainland. The U.N.’s Security Council resolution also includes strikingly lower caps on refined oil to North Korea. Aside from considerably tightened refined oil restrictions, North Korea…

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London tower block fire wasn’t without warning from the insurance industry

Julie Campbell
Grenfell London tower block fire

The Grenfell Tower building was completely destroyed in a massive blaze, killing at least 79 people. The London tower block fire that led to the death of at least 79 people and injured many others did not occur without warning. The insurance industry in the United Kingdom had previously warned the British government that the external surfaces like the one on Grenfell Tower and several other buildings are flammable and dangerous. The insurance industry’s warning was issued a month before the killer blaze that shook the city and shocked the…

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Smart contract insurance partnership launches between AIG and IBM

Nordstrom
IBM Supercomputer - smart contract insurance

The insurer and tech giant will use blockchain for managing complex forms of international coverage. American International Group (AIG) and International Business Machines (IBM) are partnering to create a form of smart contract insurance policy. This coverage will employ blockchain for the management of highly complex forms of international insurance protection. The two companies recently completed the smart contract coverage policy pilot project. The smart contract insurance multi-national policy pilot provided Standard Chartered Bank PLC with coverage. The pilot used blockchain’s digital leader technology for what IBM and AIG called…

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Australian insurance companies may face massive payouts from Cyclone Debbie

G. Turner
australia insurance companies cyclone debbie

The country’s Insurance Council has cautioned that damage could cost billions of dollars. The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has cautioned Australian insurance companies, businesses and residents that the damage from Cyclone Debbie is extensive and will be costly. In fact, the ICA declared it a catastrophe. There has yet to be a final estimate of what the damage total will be but previous ones have been in the billions. Over 90 percent of the residents of North Queensland are covered by some form of insurance policy. The majority of…

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