We explore today how insurance denial amid climate change will impact assets and other aspects of business. In particular, we think at fires like the Australian bushfires and Fort McMurray (Canada) fire in addition to increasing rains leading to flooding. These will undeniably be a ‘big drag’ on growth and have already generated invaluable losses to biodiversity. Furthermore, insurance denial will become a problem as we discussed back in 2016 and even as far as 2009. Insurance denial amid climate change…
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Cyber security is a relatively new subject in businesses management. It first emerged in the 80ies with password guessing, featured in movies like Wargame with the rudimentary attack sophistication of those times. But Should you listen to your insurer for your business cyber risk management? The attack sophistication increased gradually. By the end of 2000, elaborate hacking devices (Stuxnet worm) that could only be issued by cooperating military forces were born. To date no state has officially claimed ownership. However anonymous…
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GeoMontreal 2013 is pleased to offer a choice of full-day short courses as part of the official conference program. Modern Implementations of Risk and Crisis Management in Geotechnical Engineering by Riskope at GeoMontreal 2013 is a short course to be held Sunday, September 29, 2013 at the Hilton Bonaventure. Modern Implementations of Risk and Crisis Management in Geotechnical Engineering: Riskope at GeoMontreal 2013 Riskope’s course will bring much needed methodological and practical answers to anyone involved in evaluating and prioritizing risks…
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At Riskope we have been writing and discussing insurance denial issues hitting miners around the world since 2009. Now there is evidence that the problem of Insurance Denial not Only for Mining and is extending to flood insurance (and most certainly to other natural hazard-linked events in the future). From a societal risk management point of view the problem is quite intriguing Seen from a societal risk management point of view the problem is quite intriguing: 1) Governments (at all…
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