What Happens When Tycoons Abandon Their Giant Cargo Ships December 18, 2020 By K Oanh Ha and Bruce Stanley From the deck of their tanker, Captain Samig Nabiyev and his crew could see the smoke and fire rising over...
What’s Wrong With Commercial Auto and How Do We Fix It? December 18, 2020 By Gary Hagmueller Commercial auto is one of the biggest, most problematic cost centers in the insurance industry. Its loss ratios are incredibly...
Suspected Russian Hackers Target Frail U.S. Supply Chain December 17, 2020 By Jordan Robertson and William Turton For years, U.S. officials have warned about the dangers of cyber-attacks involving the electronics supply chain. This week’s revelation that...
Lloyd’s, Parsyl to Insure Emerging Market COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout December 15, 2020 LONDON, Dec 15 — Lloyd’s of London and insurtech firm Parsyl have launched a program to insure the distribution of...
Floods, Drought Are Destroying Crops and Sparking Food Inflation October 23, 2020 By Fabiana Batista, Agnieszka de Sousa and Mai Ngoc Chau Wild weather is wreaking havoc on crops around the world, sending their prices skyrocketing. On wheat farms in the U.S....
Why Some Organizations Are Managing Coronavirus Risk Better Than Others September 4, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson While few, if any, organizations saw the coronavirus pandemic and all of its death and disruption coming, some were better...
Coronavirus Disruption Drives Demand for AI-Powered Supply Chain Risk Software June 19, 2020 By Rajesh Kumar Singh For the past seven years, a Munich-based firm called riskmethods has tried to interest companies in buying software that allows...
As U.S. Auto Supply Chain Revs Up, Worker Safety Fears Linger in Mexico May 6, 2020 By Daina Beth Solomon MEXICO CITY — Workers at a Lear Corp autoparts plant in northern Mexico that saw the worst known coronavirus outbreak...
Insurers Chartering Flights to Ship Gold to Ease Supply Logjam April 9, 2020 By Peter Hobson Insurance firms have started covering charter flights to carry gold, helping to ease logjams in the bullion supply chain that...
Deaths Expose Fears for Strength of U.S. Food-Supply Chain April 9, 2020 By Isis Almeida and Lydia Mulvany Some of the workers who help produce America’s food are starting to die because of the coronavirus. At least three...