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  • Commercial Risks & Insurance Brokers

    Commercial Risks & Insurance Brokers

    Risk Management and Commercial Insurance Brokers The term ‘risk management’ was probably first used in the United States in the early 1950s. It developed out of the dissatisfaction of US Commercial Insurance managers with the lack of premium credit they were being given by the...

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  • Marine Insurance Counts the Cost of Increased Attacks by Pirates!

    Marine Insurance Counts the Cost of Increased Attacks by Pirates!

    Unbelievably Marine Piracy continued to grow in 2009, which should be a sobering thought for all us sea dogs who like to roam the seven seas. The ICC International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre (IMB PRC) has just released it’s 2009 annual report and it...

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  • Apocalypse Now for Natural Disaster Insurance Claims

    Apocalypse Now for Natural Disaster Insurance Claims

    February 2010 has seen unprecendented natural disasters and as we head full steam towards December 2012, if those Mayan descendents and crusading followers of John’s Revelation are to believed, we have only just seen the beginning of the great losses as we plummet into the...

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