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Nov
19

US Visit to Support Myanmar Reform

President Obama meets today with both Myanmar's party leaders in Rangoon, the country's commercial centre. It will be the first official visit for a sitting US President to Myanmar (also known as Burma) in an effort to support recent reforms undertaken by its President Thein Sein. Obama has revealed a strategy that 're-focuses on engaging fast-growing Asian nations', choosing South East Asia as his…

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Nov
19

The Gender Directive: New Directions for European Insurance

From the 21st of December 2012 European insurers will no longer be able to use gender as criteria when assessing risk factors to price premium plans. The European Court of Justice ruled a decision in March 2011 determining that insurance policies reliant on gender factors were incompatible with the prohibition of discrimination under the European Union. The final Article prohibits: "...any results…

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Nov
19

The Re-Election of Obamacare

When Barack Obama was re-elected to the White House this November, America was reminded that not only is Obama the first African-American to preside in the Oval Office, he is the first president to make health care a primary component of his presidential legacy. Obama's re-election will certainly have important and lasting effects on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as…

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