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What’s the state of the cyber market these days?

June 17, 2021 by Adam Malik

A lack of scrutiny around the risk being taken on and a flawed claims process bit the cyber insurance market hard, especially over the last year, according to experts in the field. Now, they added, there are signs that insurers

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Why clients are still forking over ransomware demands

June 4, 2021 by Adam Malik

Clients are still indeed paying ransomware demands, despite a report to the contrary, because the threat of having sensitive data exposed is very much a concern, according to a pair of cyber insurance experts. Their comments come following a report

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Insurers monitor battle within auto industry over car data ownership

May 30, 2021 by Adam Malik

The outcome of a current standoff between auto manufacturers and the automotive aftermarket industry over who owns the data generated by automated cars will have implications for the insurance industry, according to an insurance executive. “If the data is owned

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A cybercriminal hijacks an autonomous vehicle. Who’s responsible for a crash?

May 12, 2021 by Adam Malik

Vehicle manufacturers are likely going to be on the hook for damages following autonomous car crashes in which no human being is controlling the vehicle, a cyber insurance specialist says. “Certainly, one of the more dramatic ways of thinking about

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Demystifying cyber’s first hard market

November 12, 2020 by David Gambrill

Cyber insurance is a relatively new line of business in Canada and so it hasn’t seen any hard markets historically — until now, that is. And it seems that insurers have ransomware to thank for that. “I think it is