World Cup News

By Modeling Players’ Insurable Values, Lloyd’s Predicts England Will Win World Cup

Lloyd’s of London predicts that England will beat Brazil and emerge victorious at the 2022 FIFA World Cup – with France, Argentina and Spain falling just behind. Lloyd’s is going for a hat-trick of predictions, after correctly identifying Germany and …

Did Big Data Enable Lloyd’s to Predict France’s World Cup Win? Well, Maybe…

Ahead of the recent World Cup in Russia, Lloyd’s of London predicted that France would be victorious. And victorious they were – with a 4-2 win against Croatia on Sunday. Interestingly, Lloyd’s also predicted Germany’s win against Argentina in 2014. …

Russia World Cup Insurance Premiums Rise on Risks of Terrorism, Hooliganism

The risk of terror attacks and damage from hooligans has pushed up premiums for businesses and players buying insurance for the soccer World Cup in Russia compared to the previous event in Brazil, brokers and insurers say. The insured value …

Lloyd’s Uses Insurable Value Data to Predict France Will Win 2018 World Cup

Analyzing the collective insurable value of soccer players, Lloyd’s of London* predicts that France will be the winner of the 2018 World Cup, which will be held in Russia from June 14 to July 15, 2018. The research, which was …

World Cup Insurers Face Many Claims, Disputes Over Russia, Qatar

World Cup insurers are likely to refuse to pay out on many cancellation contracts if Russia and Qatar lose the rights to hold the tournaments because of fraud, industry experts said. Russia and Qatar could be stripped of their World …

Liberty Mutual’s Brazil Seguros to Sponsor 2014 Soccer World Cup

The Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group announced that Liberty Seguros in Brazil has signed an agreement with FIFA [soccer football’s governing body] to become a FIFA World Cup National Supporter for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil and the FIFA Confederation …