Working in risk can be pretty exciting. Could you imagine being asked to arrange insurance for a movie star's legs? Or could you deal with a claim following an attack of piracy off the coast of East Africa? The world of risk is as old as civilisation itself and touches every part of our lives. From satellites in outer space to priceless works of art we fill you in on risk's facts and trivia.
The gigantic steel structure of the London Eye has been constructed along similar principles to a somewhat-larger-scale bicycle wheel. It takes 500Kw of power to move the wheel - that's 6 light bulbs worth of energy per person (assuming all the capsules are full). And it took 1,700 tons of steel to build this attraction (enough to make 250 double decker buses). With over 1,000 visitors an hour, who bears the risk if something goes wrong?
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Fairtrade roses from Kenya, Egyptian green beans and baby corn from Thailand are all air freighted to the best shops and delis. But who pays compensation, and to whom, if the plane doesn't take off on time and it all rots?
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In the 17th century, Edward Lloyd (see Lloyd's of London) opened a coffee house that became popular for ship owners, merchants, and ships' captains, and thereby a reliable source of the latest shipping news. It also became the meeting place for parties wishing to insure cargoes and ships.
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Risk is a global business and many companies operate internationally. Opportunities exist for regular travel, secondment or even relocation. Just decide where you'd like to live and see who's there.
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The fuel needed for our living room fire used to be pulled from the earth by Welsh and Yorkshire coal miners and transported by pit ponies. Today it arrives in a pipe from countries like Norway, Qatar and Algeria.
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Believe it or not, even hot air balloons have specialist insurance for both crew and passengers.
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All parts of life can be insured, from your eyesight to your ability to pay the mortgage. You can protect your income, any hospital bills, your life, your funeral, the list goes on.
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Forget locusts, today it is floods that are taking life, limb and livelihoods.
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Believe it or not, these are genuine examples of holiday insurance claims highlighted by lastminute.com.au and travel.com.au.
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Not only can farmer Fred insure his Massey Ferguson against being taken by local joy riders, he can also protect against the weather ruining his harvest or his prize bull having problems sowing his wild seeds.
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Risk is just as important for small businesses as those with multi-billion pound turnovers. Small businesses often have the responsibility of employing people but lack the back up of an experienced HR team; they may have a fleet of vans but no Health and Safety Manager.
Read More »
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If you want a career in risk but don't fancy London life many of the UK's biggest towns and cities are home to regional or national offices of the world's largest insurers. They offer great careers with a good work-life balance without the daily dose of London Underground.
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The UK risk profession is the largest in Europe and the third largest in the world. It accounts for 11% of total worldwide premium income.
Read More »
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Who do you go to when you want to insure helicopters to be used in war-torn Iraq? Or you're putting on an event on the scale of the Olympic Games?
Read More »
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The Angel of the North contemporary sculpture in Gateshead is one of the most viewed pieces of art in the world. It is seen by more than one person every second, 90,000 every day or 33 million every year.
Read More »
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As a young driver, your experience of car insurance will probably be that it's expensive! But when you consider that around £500m a year is paid out to victims of uninsured drivers and £487m was paid out in 2007 just to victims of car thieves you can see why.
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Double act Ant and Dec took out a policy reputed to be worth £2m in 2008 in case their screen partner dies. And Barbadian singer Rihanna reputedly has a $1m policy against anything happening to her legs.
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In 2001 The National Sealife centre in Birmingham insured its visitors against death and permanent disability occasioned by the Japanese Giant Crab. The risk was valued at £1m.
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Jonathan James gained notoriety when he became the first juvenile to be sent to prison for hacking. Sentenced at just 16, he had hacked into NASA computers, stealing software worth approximately $1.7 million and forcing the agency to shut down its computer systems.
Read More »
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You may be able to name a star but you can't currently insure one. You can however take a policy on anything you own that's orbiting in space, like one of the thousands of satellites which can be damaged or destroyed by space debris.
Read More »
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With the African Cup of Nations and the World Cup taking place in 2010, some Premiership clubs are likely to see some of their best players pick up injuries this summer. But who pays out if a career is ended playing for country rather than club? Increasingly, clubs refuse to let countries take their players into tournaments without adequate insurance.
Read More »
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While most people's eyes will be on Usain Bolt's legs and Ian Thorpe's shoulders when the Olympic Games come to London in 2012, many others will be focusing on the cost of building the pool and the running track.
Read More »
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Today's pirate has less in common with Disney's Jack Sparrow and more with a highly organised, fully tooled up terrorist. Cutlasses have been replaced with night-vision goggles and rocket-propelled grenades - these guys mean business. Rather than chests full of gold, the bounty of choice is an oil tanker, value $100 million. And of course if there's risk there's a need for insurance.
Read More »
|
The gigantic steel structure of the London Eye has been constructed along similar principles to a somewhat-larger-scale bicycle wheel. It takes 500Kw of power to move the wheel - that's 6 light bulbs worth of energy per person (assuming all the capsules are full). And it took 1,700 tons of steel to build this attraction (enough to make 250 double decker buses). With over 1,000 visitors an hour, who bears the risk if something goes wrong?
Read More »
|
Fairtrade roses from Kenya, Egyptian green beans and baby corn from Thailand are all air freighted to the best shops and delis. But who pays compensation, and to whom, if the plane doesn't take off on time and it all rots?
Read More »
|
In the 17th century, Edward Lloyd (see Lloyd's of London) opened a coffee house that became popular for ship owners, merchants, and ships' captains, and thereby a reliable source of the latest shipping news. It also became the meeting place for parties wishing to insure cargoes and ships.
Read More »
|
Risk is a global business and many companies operate internationally. Opportunities exist for regular travel, secondment or even relocation. Just decide where you'd like to live and see who's there.
Read More »
|
The fuel needed for our living room fire used to be pulled from the earth by Welsh and Yorkshire coal miners and transported by pit ponies. Today it arrives in a pipe from countries like Norway, Qatar and Algeria.
Read More »
|
Believe it or not, even hot air balloons have specialist insurance for both crew and passengers.
Read More »
|
All parts of life can be insured, from your eyesight to your ability to pay the mortgage. You can protect your income, any hospital bills, your life, your funeral, the list goes on.
Read More »
|
Forget locusts, today it is floods that are taking life, limb and livelihoods.
Read More »
|
Believe it or not, these are genuine examples of holiday insurance claims highlighted by lastminute.com.au and travel.com.au.
Read More »
|
Not only can farmer Fred insure his Massey Ferguson against being taken by local joy riders, he can also protect against the weather ruining his harvest or his prize bull having problems sowing his wild seeds.
Read More »
|
Risk is just as important for small businesses as those with multi-billion pound turnovers. Small businesses often have the responsibility of employing people but lack the back up of an experienced HR team; they may have a fleet of vans but no Health and Safety Manager.
Read More »
|
If you want a career in risk but don't fancy London life many of the UK's biggest towns and cities are home to regional or national offices of the world's largest insurers. They offer great careers with a good work-life balance without the daily dose of London Underground.
Read More »
|
The UK risk profession is the largest in Europe and the third largest in the world. It accounts for 11% of total worldwide premium income.
Read More »
|
Who do you go to when you want to insure helicopters to be used in war-torn Iraq? Or you're putting on an event on the scale of the Olympic Games?
Read More »
|
The Angel of the North contemporary sculpture in Gateshead is one of the most viewed pieces of art in the world. It is seen by more than one person every second, 90,000 every day or 33 million every year.
Read More »
|
As a young driver, your experience of car insurance will probably be that it's expensive! But when you consider that around £500m a year is paid out to victims of uninsured drivers and £487m was paid out in 2007 just to victims of car thieves you can see why.
Read More »
|
Double act Ant and Dec took out a policy reputed to be worth £2m in 2008 in case their screen partner dies. And Barbadian singer Rihanna reputedly has a $1m policy against anything happening to her legs.
Read More »
|
In 2001 The National Sealife centre in Birmingham insured its visitors against death and permanent disability occasioned by the Japanese Giant Crab. The risk was valued at £1m.
Read More »
|
Jonathan James gained notoriety when he became the first juvenile to be sent to prison for hacking. Sentenced at just 16, he had hacked into NASA computers, stealing software worth approximately $1.7 million and forcing the agency to shut down its computer systems.
Read More »
|
You may be able to name a star but you can't currently insure one. You can however take a policy on anything you own that's orbiting in space, like one of the thousands of satellites which can be damaged or destroyed by space debris.
Read More »
|
With the African Cup of Nations and the World Cup taking place in 2010, some Premiership clubs are likely to see some of their best players pick up injuries this summer. But who pays out if a career is ended playing for country rather than club? Increasingly, clubs refuse to let countries take their players into tournaments without adequate insurance.
Read More »
|
While most people's eyes will be on Usain Bolt's legs and Ian Thorpe's shoulders when the Olympic Games come to London in 2012, many others will be focusing on the cost of building the pool and the running track.
Read More »
|
Today's pirate has less in common with Disney's Jack Sparrow and more with a highly organised, fully tooled up terrorist. Cutlasses have been replaced with night-vision goggles and rocket-propelled grenades - these guys mean business. Rather than chests full of gold, the bounty of choice is an oil tanker, value $100 million. And of course if there's risk there's a need for insurance.
Read More »
|
The gigantic steel structure of the London Eye has been constructed along similar principles to a somewhat-larger-scale bicycle wheel. It takes 500Kw of power to move the wheel - that's 6 light bulbs worth of energy per person (assuming all the capsules are full). And it took 1,700 tons of steel to build this attraction (enough to make 250 double decker buses). With over 1,000 visitors an hour, who bears the risk if something goes wrong?
Read More »
|
Fairtrade roses from Kenya, Egyptian green beans and baby corn from Thailand are all air freighted to the best shops and delis. But who pays compensation, and to whom, if the plane doesn't take off on time and it all rots?
Read More »
|
In the 17th century, Edward Lloyd (see Lloyd's of London) opened a coffee house that became popular for ship owners, merchants, and ships' captains, and thereby a reliable source of the latest shipping news. It also became the meeting place for parties wishing to insure cargoes and ships.
Read More »
|
Risk is a global business and many companies operate internationally. Opportunities exist for regular travel, secondment or even relocation. Just decide where you'd like to live and see who's there.
Read More »
|
The fuel needed for our living room fire used to be pulled from the earth by Welsh and Yorkshire coal miners and transported by pit ponies. Today it arrives in a pipe from countries like Norway, Qatar and Algeria.
Read More »
|
Believe it or not, even hot air balloons have specialist insurance for both crew and passengers.
Read More »
|
All parts of life can be insured, from your eyesight to your ability to pay the mortgage. You can protect your income, any hospital bills, your life, your funeral, the list goes on.
Read More »
|
Forget locusts, today it is floods that are taking life, limb and livelihoods.
Read More »
|
Believe it or not, these are genuine examples of holiday insurance claims highlighted by lastminute.com.au and travel.com.au.
Read More »
|
Not only can farmer Fred insure his Massey Ferguson against being taken by local joy riders, he can also protect against the weather ruining his harvest or his prize bull having problems sowing his wild seeds.
Read More »
|
Risk is just as important for small businesses as those with multi-billion pound turnovers. Small businesses often have the responsibility of employing people but lack the back up of an experienced HR team; they may have a fleet of vans but no Health and Safety Manager.
Read More »
|
If you want a career in risk but don't fancy London life many of the UK's biggest towns and cities are home to regional or national offices of the world's largest insurers. They offer great careers with a good work-life balance without the daily dose of London Underground.
Read More »
|
The UK risk profession is the largest in Europe and the third largest in the world. It accounts for 11% of total worldwide premium income.
Read More »
|
Who do you go to when you want to insure helicopters to be used in war-torn Iraq? Or you're putting on an event on the scale of the Olympic Games?
Read More »
|
The Angel of the North contemporary sculpture in Gateshead is one of the most viewed pieces of art in the world. It is seen by more than one person every second, 90,000 every day or 33 million every year.
Read More »
|
As a young driver, your experience of car insurance will probably be that it's expensive! But when you consider that around £500m a year is paid out to victims of uninsured drivers and £487m was paid out in 2007 just to victims of car thieves you can see why.
Read More »
|
Double act Ant and Dec took out a policy reputed to be worth £2m in 2008 in case their screen partner dies. And Barbadian singer Rihanna reputedly has a $1m policy against anything happening to her legs.
Read More »
|
In 2001 The National Sealife centre in Birmingham insured its visitors against death and permanent disability occasioned by the Japanese Giant Crab. The risk was valued at £1m.
Read More »
|
Jonathan James gained notoriety when he became the first juvenile to be sent to prison for hacking. Sentenced at just 16, he had hacked into NASA computers, stealing software worth approximately $1.7 million and forcing the agency to shut down its computer systems.
Read More »
|
You may be able to name a star but you can't currently insure one. You can however take a policy on anything you own that's orbiting in space, like one of the thousands of satellites which can be damaged or destroyed by space debris.
Read More »
|
With the African Cup of Nations and the World Cup taking place in 2010, some Premiership clubs are likely to see some of their best players pick up injuries this summer. But who pays out if a career is ended playing for country rather than club? Increasingly, clubs refuse to let countries take their players into tournaments without adequate insurance.
Read More »
|
While most people's eyes will be on Usain Bolt's legs and Ian Thorpe's shoulders when the Olympic Games come to London in 2012, many others will be focusing on the cost of building the pool and the running track.
Read More »
|
Today's pirate has less in common with Disney's Jack Sparrow and more with a highly organised, fully tooled up terrorist. Cutlasses have been replaced with night-vision goggles and rocket-propelled grenades - these guys mean business. Rather than chests full of gold, the bounty of choice is an oil tanker, value $100 million. And of course if there's risk there's a need for insurance.
Read More »
|