Kidnap & Ransom

As kidnap and extortion cases increase worldwide, understanding the risks and how to handle them is critical. Keep yourself informed with the following:

• Steps to take to avoid a kidnapping and protect your assets

Newsletters & Fact Sheets on the exposures and impact of a kidnap, extortion threat, detention or hijack event.

• Protecting Engineering Firms, offers specific information on why engineering firms need Kidnap & Ransom insurance and offers expertise to mitigate their risk, when company offices or their employees are located abroad.
• Learn Why Kidnap, Ransom and Extortion Coverage is a prudent choice in dealing with the overwhelming consequences associated with a kidnap, extortion, detention or hijack event.

Perspective is a quarterly newsletter by Control Risks with insight into the critical risk issues that affect your business and some of the emerging factors that will shape the risk management landscape in the future.

• July 2007 Issue, highlights climate change, resource scarcity and international security; Standard Chartered Bank: maintaining a healthy risk appetite; managing security in national oil companies; living up to olympic standards; and much more.
• April 2007 Issue, highlights Colombia's lasting burden of a bad reputation, Genentech: reducing risk, putting a price on your company's information, a four month focus on specific countries, the early days of a pandemic, the real costs of doing business in central and eastern Europe and Ghana.
• November 2006 Issue, informs us about embracing India's opportunities, Africa: unraveling the complexities, a four month focus on specific countries, keeping the business wheels revolving, Venezuela: living in interesting times, First-hand experience of the situation in East Timor.
• August 2006 Issue, reflects on the Russian IPO myths, Control Risks' global presence, the ever changing face of kidnapping, a four month focus on specific countries, tackling fraud in a Chinese context and first hand experience of life in Haiti.

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