Regardless of how well-versed you are in matters of intellectual property, you may be surprised to hear that its history may have been very differe...

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...

With GDPR now in force, we’ve addressed your most pressing questions to help you and your clients understand the complexities of the regulation.

It hasn’t taken long for the new consumer products regulator – the Office for Product Safety & Standards (OPSS), to show businesses that it’s not g...

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

In 2013, following recommendations from consultations, the UK government formed the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court. It was introduced as a...

With GDPR coming into force in May 2018 – and bringing with it a whole host of changes including new data breach notification requirements – you’d be forgiven for thinking that this was one of the only major new pieces of legislation impacting the...

A new report recently published by the data provider Darts-IP details the prevalence of litigation in Europe brought by ‘Non-practicing entities’ (...

High profile copyright infringements in popular music continue as Taylor Swift is in the firing line, once again. She was recently a target for ano...

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...

2017 was a busy year in the recall market with some tumultuous market events, big ticket claims, regulatory advances and multiple manufacturing recalls.

Product tampering has long been necessary coverage for companies purchasing Recall policies. That’s because there has always been a risk of disgruntled employees, unhappy consumers, and even ideologically motivated extremists tampering with a prod...

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 European Patent Office have recently published an insightful series of case studies analysing the IP strategies of a number of European-based S...

Today we are releasing findings from a survey conducted at the 2017 London Market Cyber Symposium last month*.

There are many theories on the increasing prevalence of allergies amongst the population: our ‘too clean’ society which leads to poorly trained immune systems, our increasingly indoor lifestyles and the related lack of vitamin D, the diet we eat,...