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Predicting Crime with Big Data Without Breaking the Bank
Feb 20 2014 // Researchers at Rutgers’ School of Criminal Justice have developed commercial technology that public safety practitioners and researchers worldwide are using to fight crime. Leslie Kennedy and Joel Caplan of Rutgers...
What Consumer Credit Data Reveals About Auto Insurance Shoppers
Feb 10 2014 // Customers with lower credit-based insurance scores shop most frequently while consumers with the highest insurance scores are less likely than the general population to shop for new auto insurance. Also, according to the...
Wisconsin Health Insurer Missing Hard Drive with Customer Data
Feb 2 2014 // Wisconsin’s Unity health insurance says a portable hard drive containing health information for about 41,000 people has been missing for seven weeks. The insurance company said it was offering identity theft...
What Consumer Credit Data Reveals About Auto Insurance Shoppers
Jan 29 2014 // Customers with lower credit-based insurance scores shop most frequently while consumers with the highest insurance scores are less likely than the general population to shop for new auto insurance. Also, according to the...
Stolen Laptop Contained Data on S.C. Health Insurance Pool Members
Dec 31 2013 // A laptop stolen from an auditor’s car contained the personal information of more than 3,400 members of the South Carolina Health Insurance Pool, an attorney hired by the pool told The Associated Press on Monday. The...
Insurance Questions, Lawsuits Arise in Wake of Target’s Data Breach
Dec 22 2013 // U.S. retail giant Target Corp. is busy dealing with the aftermath of the massive data breach that exposed account details of some 40 million credit and debit cards. Already, at least two lawsuits seeking class-action...
Google’s Schmidt: Insurance About to ‘Explode’ With Uses for Big Data
Nov 25 2013 // Google Inc. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said new technologies that help companies analyze vast amounts of digital information have the power to bring change to the insurance, health-care and energy...
Louisiana Insurance Companies Stonewall on Enrollee Data
Oct 28 2013 // The three main companies offering health insurance plans to Louisiana residents on the federally run online health marketplace have refused to say how many people have been able to sign up for coverage. The marketplace...
Insurers Worried About Data From Federal Health Exchange
Oct 8 2013 // Insurers are getting faulty and incomplete data from the new U.S.-run health exchange, which may mean some Americans won’t be covered even after they sign up for an insurance plan. While it’s not clear how...
N.J. Regulators Requesting Updated Sandy Claims Data From Insurers
Oct 4 2013 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance recently announced a new data call request to the insurance industry to evaluate Superstorm Sandy-related claims and monitor market conditions for property/casualty...
Monsanto to Buy Weather Data Modeler, Farm Insurer Climate Corp. for $930 Million
Oct 2 2013 // Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed company, agreed to buy The Climate Corp. for about $930 million to provide farmers with weather data and agronomic modeling to boost yields and manage risk. Closely held Climate...
Data: Iowa insurance Exchange Will Offer Low Premiums
Sep 23 2013 // Newly released rate information on Iowa’s health care marketplace shows the state will offer some of the lowest premiums in the country. The Iowa Insurance Division released numbers on Sept. 20 that back up earlier...
Berkshire Hathaway to Release More Data on Insurance Cat Losses
Jun 13 2013 // Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is providing more data about claims costs at insurance units after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission pressed the company for the information. We “agree to...
Data Suggest Some Insurers Handling NFIP Claims Faster Than Others
Feb 25 2013 // Up and down the Atlantic coast, people are telling horror stories about how long it has taken to get an insurance check for flood damage caused by Superstorm Sandy. Nearly 40 percent are still waiting for the final...
FEMA Data Suggests Some Insurers Handling NFIP Claims Faster Than Others
Feb 17 2013 // Up and down the Atlantic coast, people are telling horror stories about how long it has taken to get an insurance check for flood damage caused by Superstorm Sandy. Nearly 40 percent are still waiting for the final...
Nationwide Insurance Says Data Breach Affects 1.1M
Dec 7 2012 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. says someone attacked part of its computer network and likely stole personal information affecting more than 1.1 million people. The Columbus, Ohio-based company says the Oct. 3 data breach...
Nationwide Insurance Data Breach Could Affect 28,000 in Georgia
Nov 21 2012 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens has confirmed that 28,467 households in the state could be affected by an online security breach involving Nationwide Insurance Co. Hudgens said the company notified him that a...
Chubb Launches Insurance Product for Health Care Fraud, Data Breaches
Aug 28 2012 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. has introduced insurance coverage to help small to mid-size health care organizations manage some of their biggest exposures. ForeFront Portfolio 3.0 for Health Care Organizations offers...
Auto Insurers’ Use of Credit Data
Aug 6 2012 // There is an effort now underway in Washington, D.C., to eliminate the use of consumer credit information by auto insurance companies. Three lawmakers are leading that effort in Congress. On July 13, Reps. Hansen Clarke...
Cincinatti Insurance Co., IDentity Theft 911 to Offer Data Breach Services to Insureds
Aug 1 2012 // IDentity Theft 911, an identity management and data risk management service company, is partnering with The Cincinnati Insurance Company to bring data risk solutions to Cincinnati’s commercial insurance...
