Author: Tom Wood | Date: 11/02/2019
Categories: General
Mondelez sues insurer Zurich over $100m cyber attack claim. Insurance group had refused to pay for NotPetya hack, invoking a war exclusion. Mondelez said it had been hit twice by NotPetya, with 1,700 of its servers and 24,000 laptops rendered ‘permanently dysfunctional’ © EPA Mondelez, the US food company that owns the Oreo and Cadbury brands, is suing its insurance Read More…
Author: Tom Wood | Date: 11/02/2019
The UK’s construction industry is struggling to achieve the growth of other sectors such as manufacturing but what is the solution and what are the insurance implications? Whilst growth in construction has been around 0.4% per year, the slow progress blamed on archaic methods changing little since Caesar’s time, manufacturing has achieved 3.2% growth. Things are now finally changing and Read More…
Author: Tom Wood | Date: 05/02/2019
There is a fine line between workplace harmony and what is considered unwelcome attention and harassment, as evidenced in the recent friction between workers at fashion and accessories brand, Ted Baker, and the boss they felt to be too over-familiar. Around 2000 employees within the Ted Baker corporation had, as early as December 3, signed a petition to demand an Read More…
Author: Tom Wood | Date: 29/01/2019
Categories: General
It has been roughly a year since an alleged intellectual property infringement occurred, when Talking Tables, the £16m-turnover party accessories designer, expressed apprehensions over a seeming imitation of its ‘Prosecco Pong’ product, launched into the market by a UK retailer. Just one month ago, The UK IPO and IP Crime Group released its annual crime and enforcement report, which highlighted Read More…