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News 06-05-2022
Kennedys appoints global HR director to drive transformation plans
We have appointed Alan Demirkaya as our new HR director to drive forward our transformation plans and ensure that we continue to attract the industry’s top talent. He will lead a team spanning the UK, Europe, Middle East, the Americas and Asia Pacific, reporting to global managing partner, Suzanne Liversidge.
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Report 06-05-2022
Climate disclosures: a global risk driver in financial lines
With mandatory climate disclosures becoming law in the UK, effective from 6 April 2022, and the United States Securities & Exchange Commission announcing its long awaited climate disclosure rule on 21 March 2022, this report provides a snapshot of the approach towards climate disclosures in some of the jurisdictions in which Kennedys operates, before focusing on what this means for our policyholder and insurer clients in the financial lines arena.
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News 28-04-2022
Kennedys strengthens LATAM links with addition of two associate offices
We have formed new associate offices in Bolivia and Ecuador, strengthening our presence across Latin America.
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Article 12-04-2022
Liquidation of Seguros Sucre in Ecuador – Basic Considerations
There is quite a bit of market concern with the publication of the third appeal to creditors on the official page of Seguros Sucre, now in liquidation. The function of these communications is to notify the public about the status of the liquidation process and get creditors to register their claims and debts receivable from the insurer.
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Article 09-03-2022
Can an employer require the worker to be vaccinated?
The Covid-19 pandemic has undoubtedly demanded the entire world to take certain measures to adapt to the situation and Chile was no exception.
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Article 09-03-2022
Regulatory Update Latam: “New Practices, New Laws-the year of Globalization”
2021 was a very busy year in terms of regulatory updates within many of the Latin American insurance legal systems as reported in our previous article published last November. As technology advances and communication is ever more rapid, many countries in Latin America are trending towards the globalization of their (re)insurance markets by way of promoting clearer legal frameworks and inclusion of wider and more international market practices into their local Insurance and Reinsurance regulations.
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Article 09-03-2022
YosStop: A Warning For Social Media Users
On 29 June 2021, a popular Mexican influencer and youtuber known as YosStop (Josseline Hoffman) was arrested after Ainara Suarez filed an accusation against her for producing, storing and publicizing a video showing the gang rape that Suarez suffered at a party in May 2018, when she was 16 years old.
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Article 22-02-2022
Rules of civil liability in cases of damages caused by minors in Argentina
An increase in news reports about unfortunate events where the main characters are minors, leads us to consider, once again, their civil liability.
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Article 22-02-2022
Need to establish a mandatory liability insurance in Colombia for private vehicles
The Colombian legislation does not establish the obligation to purchase a liability insurance for private vehicles to cover the damages caused by the driver or the vehicle, leaving the victims of traffic accidents without effective tools to obtain full reparation for the damages suffered.
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Article 22-02-2022
Shipping container crisis and carriers’ liability under Peruvian law
Many factors have shaped the container crisis, COVID-19 pandemic being the principal one: (i) shipping containers were stranded at different ports due to the inability to return to China at COVID-19’s early stage; (ii) disruptions of maritime traffic flow due to ports operating at a much lower capacity; and (iii) steady delay in products’ delivery due to manufacturing restrictions. Companies decided to charter their own vessels, increasing existing traffic of ships queueing up to disembark cargo, and creating heavy bottlenecks at sea.