In 1958 Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong launched a five-year plan that included a call for the country's half a billion rural residents to kill all the sparrows.
Munich Re is the lead reinsurer for the Norwegian carrier Protector Forsikring ASA, which insures the Grenfell Tower in west London that was devastated by a fire on Tuesday night.
JLT has revealed that incoming Lloyd's chairman Bruce Carnegie-Brown will step down as a non-executive director of its board today ahead of taking up his new role at the helm of the Corporation.
UK broker consolidator Global Risk Partners (GRP) has acquired a majority stake in regional commercial and personal lines intermediary Green Insurance Group