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October 6, 2026

Industry Risk Profiles - October 1, 2026 - 9 min read

249% on Indian Solar Cells: Before the ITC Votes on 14 October, Re-Check Your US-Bound Cargo, Buyer Credit and Stranded-Stock Covers

Commerce finalised a combined AD/CVD rate of about 249% on Indian solar cells and modules on 11 September 2026, and the ITC injury vote is scheduled for 14 October. Here is what module makers should check now on cargo at sea, US buyer credit limits, redirected stock and domestic warranty exposure.

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Industry Risk Profiles - September 30, 2026 - 9 min read

Lam Research's Rs 10,000 Crore Silicon Plant: The Insurance Brief for Indian Precision Suppliers Entering the Chip-Equipment Supply Chain

Lam Research plans to invest about Rs 10,000 crore in its first Indian silicon component plant and to widen its Indian supplier base. Machine shops and chemical firms that want to sell into semiconductor equipment will face insurance requirements well beyond automotive: contamination recall, E&O, cleanroom BI, clean transit and confidentiality.

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Industry Risk Profiles - September 24, 2026 - 11 min read

Hotels Above Shops, One Fire NOC: Allocating Liability in India's Mixed-Use Commercial Buildings

A pre-dawn fire in a central Kolkata building housing several hotels killed nine people in August 2026. Mixed-use buildings leave owner, occupiers and facility contractor each assuming another party's policy responds. This piece sets out how the liability and property covers should be allocated before the loss.

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Industry Risk Profiles - September 21, 2026 - 11 min read

Six-Hour Reporting to CSIRT-Power: Mapping the CEA Cyber Regulations to the Clauses in Your Policy

The CEA (Cyber Security in Power Sector) Regulations, 2026 were gazetted on 31 July 2026 and bite in full from 1 April 2027. Six-hour reporting to CSIRT-Power, a named CISO and OT and IT separation are now duties, and each one lands on a clause in a standard Indian cyber wording that was not drafted for a generating station.

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Industry Risk Profiles - September 15, 2026 - 10 min read

The Magnet Suspension Runs Out on 10 November: What to Place Before It Does

China suspended the second wave of its rare-earth export controls until 10 November 2026, and a suspension is not a withdrawal. This post sets out what an Indian EV, electronics or auto buyer can realistically place before that date, and how the new magnet and recycling plants coming out of the National Critical Minerals Mission are underwritten first as construction risk and then as operating risk.

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Industry Risk Profiles - September 5, 2026 - 10 min read

Twenty Bidders for the Rs 7,280 Crore Magnet Scheme: Underwriting a Factory India Has Never Insured

The Ministry of Heavy Industries received 20 bids under the Rs 7,280 crore rare earth permanent magnet scheme in August 2026, and five winners will build an occupancy Indian property underwriters have no rating class for. Here is the risk profile, built from the process, and the cover checklist before the first programme is placed.

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Industry Risk Profiles - September 2, 2026 - 10 min read

Samudra Manthan's 150 Deepwater Wells: The Contractor Side of the Programme

The Cabinet cleared the Samudra Manthan National Offshore Exploration Scheme with an outlay of Rs 84,084 crore, and ONGC followed with a plan for 150 deepwater wells. Most of that money lands on drilling contractors, vessel operators and subsea service firms, and their insurance obligations are written by contract long before an underwriter sees the risk.

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Industry Risk Profiles - August 29, 2026 - 10 min read

PCB and Component Plants Are India's Newest Fire Risk Class, and August Proved It

A fire at a printed circuit board unit in Greater Noida killed two firefighters on 4 August 2026, weeks before MeitY cleared a fresh tranche of electronics component approvals. Component plants stack solvent cleaning, plating chemistry, lithium cells, high-value copper and gold stock and dense cleanroom construction into one occupancy that Indian fire underwriters have thin loss history for.

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Industry Risk Profiles - August 27, 2026 - 11 min read

Gigawatt Campuses on a Cyclone Coast: Reading Cat Accumulation in Gujarat and Visakhapatnam

Google's Visakhapatnam AI hub is a gigawatt-scale campus on the Andhra coast, and Gujarat's Data Centre Policy 2026-29 targets 7.5 GW in a state whose coastline takes Arabian Sea cyclone landfalls. The property question is not fire, it is named-windstorm and flood accumulation on single sites with extreme value density, and delay in start-up across a multi-year build.

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Industry Risk Profiles - August 26, 2026 - 11 min read

Rs 978 Crore of the Rs 1,001 Crore Was Roads and Water Works: Himachal's Bill Is a Contractor's Problem

Himachal's 2026 monsoon losses crossed Rs 1,001.71 crore, and Rs 978 crore of that sits with the Public Works Department and Jal Shakti Vibhag. Most of that damage is to assets still inside a contract period, where the EAR wording, the maintenance extension and the defect liability clause decide who rebuilds at whose cost.

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Industry Risk Profiles - August 25, 2026 - 11 min read

Five Explosions in Seven Months: Why Insurers Are Re-Rating India's Secondary Steel Sector

A run of fatal furnace, ladle and sponge-iron explosions through 2026, set against capacity growing faster than output and induction furnace capacity rising 16 percent year on year, has turned Indian secondary steel from a severity class into a frequency-and-severity class. Here is what a plant owner should expect at renewal.

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