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There are many theories on the increasing prevalence of allergies amongst the population: our ‘too clean’ society which leads to poorly trained immune systems, our increasingly indoor lifestyles and the related lack of vitamin D, the diet we eat,...

The arrest of one of Nigeria’s most notorious kidnap kingpins, Chukwudubem Onwuamadike, has been hailed as a potential turning point in the battle...

There has been a notable increase in scams involving hoax kidnappings in recent years. Virtual kidnapping involves attempts to extort a ransom from...

Extortion simply defined is the unlawful extraction of property, including monies, goods and/or favours and privileges by way of various coercive a...

CFC is proud to announce the appointment of Neil Beaton to build a new team focused on developing a suite of products for financial institutions.

So far this year, seventy-three seafarers of various nationalities have been kidnapped from seventeen vessels operating in the Gulf of Guinea and c...

red24 rates Haiti as a high-risk destination and operating environment due to various persistent security concerns. These include high threats of p...

As part of CFC’s series of e-learning sessions, the ML team is holding a webinar to walk you through the acronym-heavy area of fiduciary liability insurance.

The police is usually called in to help with cases of robbery, extortion and kidnap.. not often do you find them being the perpetrators of such activities. However, this seems to have occurred in the Philippine city of Angeles City.

A recent food safety scandal in the UK involved employees at one of the largest suppliers of supermarket chicken in the country, 2 Sisters Food Group, allegedly altering slaughter dates in order to extend the products’ shelf life.

KIDNAP FOR RANSOM RESPONSE: THE IMPORTANCE OF RESILIENCE The noun resilience stems from the Latin resiliens, “to rebound or recoil”. The word is us...

We’ve previously posted a piece on the threat of kidnapping and violence against aid workers around the world, specifically Yemen due to the ongoing and increasingly vicious conflict in the region. It is an undeniable and unfortunate fact that aid...

Brexit conjures up different reactions from different parties, but regardless of which camp you may have found yourself in last summer, there is no denying that the landscape for UK food and beverage manufacturers is somewhat in limbo for the midt...

Specialist lines underwriting agency, CFC Underwriting, today announces the launch of a brand new insurance solution for US companies and individual practitioners who provide telemedicine and other eHealth services.

The news that half a million (500,000) pacemakers by health technology firm Abbott have been recalled over fears they may be tampered with remotely illustrates an increasingly common problem – as technology becomes ‘smarter’ it also becomes more v...

As part of CFC’s series of e-learning sessions, the Crisis Management team is holding a webinar to walk you through product recall insurance.

Allergen mislabelling is likely a food manufacturer’s pet hate – should be easy to avoid, but it just isn’t. Why? Your supplier might deliver ingredients which include certain allergens despite your specifications to the contrary. Your labelling s...

As the threats facing international aid workers increase around the world, Yemen consistently stands out as a major venue for aid worker kidnappings. Francesca Fazey explores the combination of factors that have contributed to this threat.