Error and medical third-party liability insurance

The concept of medical error dates back to Hippocratic Oath and to the corpus of the profession's code of ethics. It remains…

Cybercrime, a new threat to the economy

Cybercrime has been on the rise since the beginning of the health crisis. Attacks intensity and violence has picked up, resulting…

List of major cyber attacks in 2020

Solvency I and II

The single European market has been developing since the 1970s a common directive called Solvency I. This directive was designed…

Maritime transport: the race towards gigantism

The incident involving the container ship Ever Given, which was blocked for six days on one of the busiest shipping lanes in the…

Maritime gigantism: the race for profitability at the expense of safety

One might think that the Ever Given misadventure would bring shipowners' unbridled race for gigantism to a halt. Yet…

World container port rankings: 1970-2019

Over the past five decades, traffic at the world's ports and seaboards has also undergone a profound change. With the increasing…

Container ships: main port and maritime accidents in 2020