Aon is a global provider of insurance and reinsurance brokerage services, insurance products, risk and insurance advice, web-based risk management information systems, as well as other consulting services.

With the continuation of the gradual recovery of the global economy, it is likely the insurance industry will continue to see growth in premium income both in industrialised countries and emerging markets in 2011.

Advanced economies account for the bulk of global insurance.

The US and Japan alone accounted for 40 % of world insurance, much higher than their 7 % share of the global population.

* Benjamin E. Kahrnoff, former President of Verizon Wireless, former VP for GTE Wireless, retired SVP of Asurion, the largest global provider of wireless handset insurance

OPIC ’ s political risk insurance enables U. S. businesses to take advantage of commercially attractive opportunities in emerging markets, mitigating risk and helping them compete in a global marketplace.

The ING Group () is a global financial institution offering retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, asset management, and insurance services.

Zurich North America is the leading global private provider of political risk and trade credit insurance.

CIGNA Inc. ( pronounced sig-nuh ), headquartered in Bloomfield, Connecticut, is a global health care management company, owing to its expanding international footprint and the fact that it provides administrative services only ( not insurance ) to approximately 80 percent of its clients.

* Cigna ( CIGNA and CMC ) insurance on the insured in the global or non USA for general practice level of medical costs of providing emergency, inpatient, fertility, medical and dental high-end medical insurance.

* Cigna ( CIGNA and CM ) insurance on the insured in the global or non USA for general practice level of medical costs of providing emergency, inpatient, fertility, medical and dental high-end medical insurance.

Large numbers of leading international insurance companies are based in Hamilton, making it a global reinsurance centre.

MetLife is among the largest global providers of insurance, annuities, and employee benefit programs, with 90 million customers in over 60 countries.

Zurich Insurance Group Ltd is a global insurance company which is organized into three core business segments: General Insurance, Global Life and Farmers.

During the post-war period, the company's successful business strategies made it one of Montreal's largest white-collar employers, one of the top corporations in Canada, as well as a global player in the life insurance field.

AXA S. A. is a French global insurance group headquartered in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.

ACE Limited is the parent company of the ACE Group, a global provider of insurance products covering property and casualty, accident and health, reinsurance, travel, creditor, and life insurance.

CGU also offered a broad range of life and general insurance products, with a stronger global presence than the heavily UK-based Norwich Union.

Technology transfer has allowed Chile to build its global competitiveness and innovation and has led to the expansion of production as well as to an increase in average firm size in the industry.

With the rapid recovery in automotive and chemical industry overall, the global catalyst market is expected to experience fast growth in the next years.

* Carbon dioxide emission from the global cement industry ( in 1994 )

Since the early 21st century within the global functional food industry, raw cranberries have been marketed as a " superfruit " due to their nutrient content and antioxidant qualities.

The award is given to an individual in the entertainment industry who contributes to global well-being through donations of time, expertise or other support to improve the human condition.

This was the world's first assembler, and arguably the start of the global software industry.

The past five years have seen rapid growth in the contribution of Asian nations to the global fluid and powdered milk manufacturing industry, which in 2008 accounted for more than 30 % of production, while China alone accounts for more than 10 % of both production and consumption in the global fruit and vegetable processing and preserving industry.

Gibraltar benefits from an extensive shipping trade, a well regulated international finance center, tourism, and has become a global leader in the virtual gaming industry.

*" The industry voice on climate change has served its purpose by contributing to a new national approach to global warming ...

The energy lobby, oil industry advocates and free market think tanks have often been accused of overtly or covertly supporting efforts to undermine or discredit the scientific consensus on global warming.

As of April 2012, the estimated size of the global hedge fund industry was US $ 2. 13 trillion.

Asia, and more particularly China, is taking on a more important role as a source of funds for the global hedge fund industry.

Italy has a smaller number of global multinational corporations than other economies of comparable size, but there is a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises, as in the Northern " industrial triangle " ( Milan-Turin-Genoa ), where there is an area of intense industrial and machinery production, notably in their several industrial districts, which are the backbone of the Italian industry.

It recommends safety standards, but member states are not required to comply ; it promotes nuclear energy, but it also monitors nuclear use ; it is the sole global organization overseeing the nuclear energy industry, yet it is also weighed down by checking compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ).

Japan is the world's 3rd largest automobile manufacturing country, has the largest electronics goods industry, and is often ranked among the world's most innovative countries leading several measures of global patent filings.

National and regional trade unions organizing in specific industry sectors or occupational groups also form global union federations, such as Union Network International, the International Transport Workers Federation, the International Federation of Journalists or the International Arts and Entertainment Alliance.

The Forum serves as a communication platform between the space sector and the public ; it is embedded in a global network of specialists from the space industry, research and policy.

This can range in scale from the traditional use of preindustrial societies, to global industry.

New government spending, regulation and policies helped the industry weather the global financial crisis better than many other sectors.

Led by industry and construction, growth in 2002 was 5. 8 %, despite anemic global growth.

He wanted time, too, to review the United States' global commitments and to test both the policies he had inherited and new ones he was formulating.

Industrial output was relatively positive throughout 2010, with year-on-year average growth of 10. 9 percent in the period January to September 2010, due largely to the mining sector where higher global demand for commodities led to higher prices.

In 2010, the value of the Armenian Dram ( AMD ) was artificially kept high during the height of the global economic crisis.

It has recently been suggested that the regional decline at the end of the Akkadian period ( and First Intermediary Period of the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom ) was associated with rapidly increasing aridity, and failing rainfall in the region of the Ancient Near East, caused by a global centennial-scale drought.

The latter was referred to as close air support for the global war on terror ( CAS for GWOT ).

In 1998 Santer was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for research supporting the finding that human activity contributes to global warming.

Santer was the convening Lead Author of Chapter 8 of 1995 IPCC Working Group I Report ( AR2 WGI ), which addressed the global warming issue.

By 1916, Chaplin was a global phenomenon.

Analyses of large human concentrations in big cities, in multi-disciplinar studies by Ronald Daus, show how new methods may be applied to the understanding of man living in a global world and how it was caused by the action of extra-European nations, so high-lighting the role of Ethics in modern anthropology.

The Paleocene – Eocene Thermal Maximum of 55. 8 mya was a significant global warming event.

The global demand on catalysts in 2010 was estimated at approximately 29. 5 billions USD.

An example of this phenomenon is Dirichlet's theorem, to which it was originally applied by Heine, that a continuous function on a compact interval is uniformly continuous: here continuity is a local property of the function, and uniform continuity the corresponding global property.

This property was significant because it allowed for the passage from local information about a set ( such as the continuity of a function ) to global information about the set ( such as the uniform continuity of a function ).

Following the incident in Cuero, Texas the popularity of the chupacabras myth was receiving global attention.

Based on Interbrand's best global brand 2011, Coca-Cola was the world's most valuable brand.

" Roache was the only remaining member of the original cast until Dennis Tanner ( Philip Lowrie ) returned on 12 May 2011, and is currently the longest-serving actor in Coronation Street and in British and global soap overall.

" The challenge for early writers was that Chicago was a frontier outpost that transformed into a global metropolis in the span of two generations.

The rationale was that the name change would help the pursuit of a global strategy.

His interest inside of McDonnell Douglas was focused on the enormous knowledge management and IT requirements involved in the lifecycle of an aerospace program, which served to strengthen Engelbart's resolve to motivate the information technology arena toward global interoperability and an open hyperdocument system.

In 1995, due to its more global usage, the name was changed from " European " to " Enhanced.

However, the current consensus among the scientific community is that the extinction was triggered by the Chicxulub impact event in Central America ( which would have produced a sunlight-blocking dust cloud that killed much of the plant life and reduced global temperature, called an impact winter ).

Mayr was co-author of six global reviews of bird species new to science ( listed below ).

The crisis was precipitated by a number of external shocks, including the El Niño weather phenomenon in 1997, a sharp drop in global oil prices in 1997-98, and international emerging market instability in 1997-98.

The concession for packet communications, perhaps against the constraint of limited international telephony competition ( with the global exceptions of callback, transit and re-file arbitrage ) -- created conditions in which Skype was natively created.