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Product recall 18 Apr, 2018
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...

Digital healthcare 4 Apr, 2018
Today we’re pleased to announce the newest version of our cyber insurance product for US healthcare providers.

Kidnap & ransom 3 Apr, 2018
This month, instead of a newsletter focusing on specific aspects of kidnap & ransom, we wanted to share the following articles predicting global ki...

Kidnap & ransom 5 Feb, 2018
Wrongful or unlawful detention of business or recreational travellers by state or nonstate groups will also present a security concern in 2018. Com...

Kidnap & ransom 2 Feb, 2018
The 2017 abduction of Afgan Mukhtarli not only puts Georgia’s democratic credentials under scrutiny, but also highlights the variety of threats fac...
Product recall 15 Jan, 2018
2017 was a busy year in the recall market with some tumultuous market events, big ticket claims, regulatory advances and multiple manufacturing recalls.
Product recall 10 Jan, 2018
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...
Life science 4 Jan, 2018
Today we are excited to announce an innovative addition to our life science suite of products with the launch of our new insurance solution designed specifically for nutraceutical businesses in the US.

Kidnap & ransom 3 Jan, 2018
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...
Product recall 6 Dec, 2017
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,...

Kidnap & ransom 27 Nov, 2017
The arrest of one of Nigeria’s most notorious kidnap kingpins, Chukwudubem Onwuamadike, has been hailed as a potential turning point in the battle...

Kidnap & ransom 27 Nov, 2017
There has been a notable increase in scams involving hoax kidnappings in recent years. Virtual kidnapping involves attempts to extort a ransom from...

Kidnap & ransom 27 Nov, 2017
Extortion simply defined is the unlawful extraction of property, including monies, goods and/or favours and privileges by way of various coercive a...
Financial institutions 14 Nov, 2017
CFC is proud to announce the appointment of Neil Beaton to build a new team focused on developing a suite of products for financial institutions.

Kidnap & ransom 30 Oct, 2017
So far this year, seventy-three seafarers of various nationalities have been kidnapped from seventeen vessels operating in the Gulf of Guinea and c...

Kidnap & ransom 30 Oct, 2017
red24 rates Haiti as a high-risk destination and operating environment due to various persistent security concerns. These include high threats of p...
Management liability 18 Oct, 2017
As part of CFC’s series of e-learning sessions, the ML team is holding a webinar to walk you through the acronym-heavy area of fiduciary liability insurance.
Kidnap & ransom 16 Oct, 2017
The police is usually called in to help with cases of robbery, extortion and kidnap.. not often do you find them being the perpetrators of such activities. However, this seems to have occurred in the Philippine city of Angeles City.
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