By Michael Cossetto, Eric Kwan and Natalie Zomaya | Mondaq What is an indemnity? An indemnity is a promise or guarantee to compensate someone for loss or damage suffered. Are indemnities required to recover loss? Put simply, no, an indemnity is not required to recover loss suffered under a contract. If a party has suffered […]
Around the globe, people are using telehealth 38 times more than before the pandemic, and that’s happening for virtual evaluation, advice, diagnoses, and sometimes treatment, says professional services firm KPMG. We’ve also seen the advent of virtual rooming assistants who admit patients into digital exam rooms. They take notes about medical histories, saving health care providers time […]
Visitor or workplace accidents, natural disasters, reputation incidents, and major health events are the most significant risks to your tourism business. Environmental, societal, political, technological factors, and an economic crisis, could also have an impact. Then there’s the impact of the pandemic. This is all in a risk category of its own, with Austrade’s Tourism Research noting […]
The construction industry is as diverse as the risks they face. It spans residential and non-residential construction, renovations and extensions, site preparation, land development, building structure services, installation services, and heavy and civil engineering. That’s a lot of risks your construction business needs to manage, so here are five insurance policies popular with construction companies. In this […]
Farmers will soon have another option to tackle their labour woes thanks to the Federal Government’s commitment to introduce a new seasonal agricultural worker visa. It will allow farmers to source workers from 10 South-East Asian countries: Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Brunei and Cambodia. The visa is in addition to the Pacific […]
