Insurers brace for surge of claims after antivirus update causes “largest IT outage in history”

Economic losses could run into the tens of billions, with claims set to trigger across multiple lines of business, notably BI, cyber, and travel.

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Insurers brace for surge of claims after antivirus update causes largest it outage in history

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