Category: Social
Better data on health set to help insurers
In a move that could help insurers with better data around health, telecommunication company Safaricom has partnered with Nakuru County to improve hea [...]
Back to the 9 to 5?
Will people return to the office when it’s safe to do so? Since the start of the pandemic last year, organisations and employees across the world have [...]
Brokerslink names new Africa manager
Broking business Brokerslink has appointed Benjamin Boudeau-Raimbault to the role of regional manager for Africa, replacing Tiago Mora who is ending h [...]
Kenya locks down, but UN’s PSI Africa summit will go ahead
The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Principles of Sustainable Insurance (PSI) team, together with host ICEA Lion, are to press ahead with the fourth [...]
Broker appoints three new African country heads
Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has appointed three new country managers after longstanding managers all left in early 2021.
Carole Epée becomes country [...]
ASR launches PVT capacity and adds underwriter to team
Africa Specialty Risks (ASR), the Pan-African focused reinsurance group, has launched war, political violence and terrorism (PVT) capacity to add to i [...]
Energy transition likely to fuel unrest, warns Verisk Maplecroft
Algeria, Iraq and Nigeria will be among the first casualties of a slow-motion wave of political instability that will engulf an array of oil-producing [...]
More to ESG than meets the eye
A successful implementation of South Africa’s Administration and Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Act (AARTO) offers a peek at how lawmakers migh [...]
Double triggers and risk pools are central to innovative pandemic covers
Global reinsurers are leading the charge to develop pandemic risk solutions that will better respond to the growing frequency and severity of infectio [...]
Insurers must listen to clients to discover the nature of real risks
Stakeholders from across the insurance world, including leading African insurance experts, came together to learn, create, develop and implement strat [...]