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Nov 26, 2024 | 
ffnews.com | Leading Fintech VCs |Lauren Towner |Jonathan Jackson
Surface water flood forecasting specialist Previsico announces a partnership with Esri UK, the global leader in geographic information system software, location intelligence, and mapping to work collaboratively to enable UK businesses, organisations, and to mitigate future flood impacts and losses.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
ffnews.com | Lauren Towner |Jonathan Jackson
Previsico announces the launch of its live flood forecasting alert service in the Republic of Ireland, to mitigate surface water flood losses for insurers and their customers. This follows major flooding events in recent years, including more frequent and intense weather patterns due to climate change. Previsico’s flood forecasting technology will be available to all insurers in Ireland, however, the initial focus will be on the water sector.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
riskandinsurance.com | Paul Winston |Pete Miller |David Agnew |Jonathan Jackson
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Recently in Predict & Prevent HSB’s Riggs shares insights into the company’s approach to technology-enabled risk prevention and protection. Liberty Mutual’s Doyle shares how access to real-time data is helping to enhance and expand risk control, and how pilots of new tech can improve ROI.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
riskandinsurance.com | Autumn Demberger |Jonathan Jackson |Dan Reynolds |Richard DePiero
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Recently in Critical Risks Extreme weather has had a significant impact on claims and the insurance industry in recent years. Robbie Arnold explains what insurers — and policyholders — can do to handle it. The “one in X year” language is leading people to underestimate the true extent of their flood risk. It’s time to view it in a different light.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
gateleyplc.com | Jonathan Jackson
Published earlier this Summer, the Department of Finance’s Review of the Defamation Act (NI) 2022 (the 2022 Act) analyses the 2022 Act’s implementation to date and identifies current issues in defamation law that may affect how the 2022 Act is used and interpreted in the future. Here, we discuss some of the Review’s key insights. Cast your mind back to June 2022.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
gateleyplc.com | Peter Barr |Jonathan Jackson
When it comes to defamation proceedings, Northern Ireland offers an attractive alternative to English courts for potential plaintiffs. Not all claims will be welcomed with open arms and sizeable awards, however, as two cases demonstrate. Northern Ireland’s amended defamation law was introduced in 2022 in the form of the Defamation Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (the 2022 Act), following the introduction of the Defamation Act 2013 (the 2013 Act) for England and Wales.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
riskandinsurance.com | Jonathan Jackson
Topics: Catastrophe | Climate Change | Critical Risks | Insurance Industry | Loss Control | Risk Insider In the insurance industry, assessing and managing flood risk is a critical endeavor. However, the conventional approach of referring to flood risk in terms of “1 in X years” is not only misleading but also leads people to underestimate the true extent of their risk. Imagine you’re a homeowner considering flood insurance for your property.
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Aug 14, 2023 | 
gateleyplc.com | Peter Barr |Jonathan Jackson
The recent serious data protection breaches concerning the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) further highlight a growing area of law - one in which the number of individuals seeking financial compensation continues to grow. But what remedies exist for individual subjects when their data are lost or stolen? Details of a serious data protection breach by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) first emerged on Tuesday 8th August.
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Feb 12, 2023 | 
cshub.com | Jonathan Jackson
Jonathan Jackson, director of sales engineering APJ at BlackBerry Cybersecurity, writes about why cyber attacks linked to artificial intelligence are inevitable.
ChatGPT has answers for almost everything, but there is one answer we may not know for a while: will its unintended consequences for cyber security turn this tool into a genie that its creators regret taking out of the bottle?
