CFC stands at the leading edge of technology innovation in insurance, empowering our brokers to do more in less time. Here are four innovations ava...

Businesses with operations in traditionally high-risk countries are no longer alone in their need for kidnap and ransom coverage. In fact, the chan...

Christmas day - dreamy for some and stress inducing for others. As another year rolls by, we decided to look at all the elements of Christmas day a...

We’re firm believers that all businesses should be able to insure themselves against whatever risk is thrown their way – Santa & the North Pole are...

Kidnap and ransom policies are now needed by almost all organisations operating globally. In the past, such policies were usually only taken up by...

Kidnap and ransom incidents can be shocking, upsetting and confusing for inexperienced crisis management teams.

Shipping companies trading in high risk marine piracy areas, either permanently or periodically should consider marine kidnap & ransom (K&R) insur...

In the heart of London’s historic insurance district and nestled in the shade of the iconic Lloyd’s building lies the office of CFC Underwriting – a bright and busy space home to more than 200 staff selling commercial insurance products to thousan...

SOMALIA (Country Risk Rating: Extreme) – German National Working for Aid Group Kidnapped in Mogadishu Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a German nation...

This month, we’d like to share the following articles featuring the latest K&R news. This post was produced in collaboration with our response cons...

This month, instead of a newsletter focusing on specific aspects of kidnap & ransom, we wanted to share the following articles predicting global ki...

Wrongful or unlawful detention of business or recreational travellers by state or nonstate groups will also present a security concern in 2018. Com...

The 2017 abduction of Afgan Mukhtarli not only puts Georgia’s democratic credentials under scrutiny, but also highlights the variety of threats fac...

It is a basic tenet of the law of torts that employers owe a duty of care to their employees. How far this duty extends becomes unclear when employ...

The arrest of one of Nigeria’s most notorious kidnap kingpins, Chukwudubem Onwuamadike, has been hailed as a potential turning point in the battle...

There has been a notable increase in scams involving hoax kidnappings in recent years. Virtual kidnapping involves attempts to extort a ransom from...

Extortion simply defined is the unlawful extraction of property, including monies, goods and/or favours and privileges by way of various coercive a...

So far this year, seventy-three seafarers of various nationalities have been kidnapped from seventeen vessels operating in the Gulf of Guinea and c...