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

An engineering firm’s files are wiped out by ransomware

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...

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

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...

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

Product tampering has long been necessary coverage for companies purchasing Recall policies. That’s because there has always been a risk of disgrun...

Today we are excited to announce an innovative addition to our life science suite of products with the launch of our new insurance solution designe...

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...

There are many theories on the increasing prevalence of allergies amongst the population: our ‘too clean’ society which leads to poorly trained imm...

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

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

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

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.

red24 rates Haiti as a high-risk destination and operating environment due to various persistent security concerns. These include high threats of p...

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