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The cancellation of the 2017 Cape Town Cycle Tour due to the unforeseen strong winds serves as an important reminder to all local businesses about the importance of insuring events.
Many of today’s new cars already have multiple forms of driver assistance: from adaptive cruise control, to lane change warnings, to self-parking, and sophisticated navigation systems that automatically re-route you in the event of traffic incidents.
Marine insurance takes its name from its origins of offering protection to the shipping industry – to ships, boats and, significantly, the cargo that merchants carried – dating back to the days of the shipping trade in the fourteenth century. Today this form of insurance extends to cargo in all its forms, across all modes of transport be it ocean vessels, ferries, barges, road, rail and even courier services.
Last week, a section of a roof collapsed at the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital in Johannesburg. With at least five people injured during the incident, this accident again highlights the dangers relating to building collapse and the very real safety issues that currently exist in the local construction industry, following a spate of incidents of the last few years.
If you had to choose one approach to protect your hard-earned investment cash from today’s market madness, which would it be?