Click here for the Friday Reading Search, a searchable archive of reading and knowledge resources

Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.

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Financial Conduct Authority , 24th March 2021
Friday Reading Edition 21 (14th August 2020)
Statement from the FCA following a test case trial on 30 July 2020, on resolving uncertainty about insurers’ liability for certain Business Interruption (BI) insurance policies.
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Herbert Smith Freehills, 19th March 2021
In Rockcliffe Hall Limited v Travelers Insurance Company Ltd [2021], Travelers succeeded in obtaining strike out/summary judgment against a policyholder’s Covid-19 business interruption claim because Covid-19 was not specifically included in the policy’s ‘closed list’ of specified diseases.
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AXA XL, 18th March 2021
Friday Reading Edition 118 (12th August 2022)
Since 2012, 'water crises' have consistently ranked in the World Economic Forum's Global Risk. Despite that, far too many companies are unaware of their exposure to water risks.
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Ventiv, 15th January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 53 (9th April 2021)
2020 had been a struggle for businesses. The plans put in place at the start of the year were quickly undone with the pandemic and various lockdown restrictions across the globe. Looking at 2021, what have we learned and what will be the priorities for risk managers?
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Aviva, 4th January 2021
Businesses could not have expected the scale of the pandemic’s impact, and so may well have to plan for recovery to a new normal. As we look to the future and coming out of the lockdown, this report looks at digitalisation as one of the legacies left by pandemics and other large world events which organisations need to consider, aside from supply chains and health awareness.
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Airmic, 14th December 2020
Friday Reading Edition 51 (26th March 2021)
Facing a tough economic outlook, high-quality companies are likely to be preferred by stakeholders. The use of ESG information has been increasingly part of stakeholder assessment of organisations. This session will consider a selection of key factors that are likely to be material next year through the lenses of ‘E’, ‘S’ and ‘G’.
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Marsh, 8th December 2020
Friday Reading Edition 38 (11th December 2020)
As local authorities grapple with another season of winter floods amid the growing realisation that we are living with climate change, Dr Bev Adams, Head of Visual Intelligence and CAT Planning at Marsh Risk Consulting, explains how local authorities can increase long-term resilience with minimal extra cost.
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McKinsey & Co, 19th November 2020
Friday Reading Edition 31 (23rd October 2020)
Brexit has disrupted both supply of and demand for talent in the United Kingdom. In the context of such a major shift, it is essential that companies revise their long-term approach to talent.
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Airmic, 13th November 2020
Friday Reading Edition 35 (20th November 2020)
Airmic's resident geopolitical expert Alex Frost and Dr Carrie Nordlund, Associate Director at the Annenberg Institute, Brown University, to discuss the results of the US presidential election, the current state of play and what this all means for geopolitical risks.
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Airmic,Paragon, 11th November 2020
Friday Reading Edition 33 (6th November 2020)
With events such as the WannaCry ransomware attack of 2017, which has been classified as a cyber catastrophe event, a number of silent cyber issues have developed into very public property policy coverage disputes. Lyndsey Bauer, Partner at Paragon, provides an overview of silent cyber and the responses that insureds should take going forward.
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