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.
Friday Reading Edition 195 (28th March 2024)
Biden administration pledges to meet cost of rebuilding four-lane river crossing but primary insurer Chubb could seek subrogation.
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Friday Reading Edition 195 (28th March 2024)
The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed on Tuesday after a large container ship ran into it, leading to six presumed deaths and millions of dollars in possible damage.
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Friday Reading Edition 195 (28th March 2024)
BBC Verify has analysed the moment of the collision between the Dali container ship and the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. The path of the ship can be followed using data from the ship tracking website MarineTraffic. A closer look at the footage shows that the ship’s lights went out in the minutes before it collided with the bridge.
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Friday Reading Edition 186 (26th January 2024)
Companies are facing the latest supply chain challenge as commercial ships are rerouted from one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. We see an uneven impact across sectors and think those companies that learned from other recent trade disruptions may be better able to ride out the current upheaval
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Friday Reading Edition 159 (30th June 2023)
Featuring Jim Wetekamp, CEO of Riskonnect CEO, who was on the keynote panel at the Airmic Conference – on how no business leader, risk manager, insurance broker, or underwriter would have anticipated having a long-running risk event (the pandemic) at the same time as a major military environment (Russia’s invasion of Ukraine) all at the same time.
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Friday Reading Edition 142 (24th February 2023)
This week at Chatham House, experts examined how the world has changed since 24 February 2022.
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Friday Reading Edition 140 (10th February 2023)
The scale of the withdrawal of international companies from Russia after the country’s invasion of Ukraine has become a powerful and multifaceted case study in crisis preparedness and response that cuts across geopolitics, regulatory, reputational, and security challenges.
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Friday Reading Edition 139 (3rd February 2023)
This reports sets out the state of play on trade, migration, public opinion, as well as the various party positions on the relationship. It also highlights the deadlines and decisions on the horizon in a number of areas, such as financial services, electric vehicles and fisheries.
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Friday Reading Edition 138 (27th January 2023)
Will the world move to solve its structural problems and make superior short-term choices? Yes or no: that’s the first question on the test.
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Friday Reading Edition 138 (27th January 2023)
[Please note the video contains some flashing images.] The US-China relationship is the greatest geopolitical risk for businesses in 2023. US-China conflict remains very unlikely in 2023, but competition and confrontation are moving from the trade and technology realms into the military domain.
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