The Oceangate Disaster – One year later June 18th 2024 marked one year since the accidental implosion of Oceangate’s Titan submersible which killed five people who were on their way

According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 90% of world trade is done by sea today – not so different from back in the ancient world. Rome had a

Dr. Solomon S. Huebner is the “father of insurance education”. He taught the first course ever given in insurance, established the insurance department – and became the architect of the

Sir Walter Scott was a pioneer of historical fiction. His works include Ivanhoe (one could call it the precursor to the more modern Robin Hood) and Rob Roy. An extremely

Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, PC, was a British statesman who, as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Leader of the House of

Agatha Christie, the bestselling author of the Hercule Poirot detective novels, is so popular that her books are outsold only by the Bible and the works of Shakespeare. When Christie

In November 1841, Charles Dickens took out a life insurance policy worth £5,000 (£360,000 today). At this time, he had already published five novels including Nicholas Nickleby and Oliver Twist.

You have heard of Franz Kafka (1883 – 1924), one of the greatest existential novelists of the century past. If you have not, we suggest you read his works. To

We dug patiently into the insurance archives and found that Queen Victoria had a life insurance policy! As per the records, Queen Victoria had a policy worth £2,000 (= £200,000

From ‘My Experiments with Truth’:   “About the time I took up chambers in Bombay, an American insurance agent had come there a man with a pleasing countenance and a