Latest Data Driven Headlines
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XL Insurance Creates Electronic Data Destruction Coverage for E-Waste Recycling
Apr 5 2011 // XL Insurance, the global insurance operations of XL Group plc, has unveiled a new Electronic Data Destruction coverage enhancement developed exclusively for e-waste recyclers. “In the US alone, an estimated 400...
MMIC, Beazley Partner to Offer Data Privacy Insurance
Feb 22 2011 // MMIC Insurance, Inc. has launched data privacy insurance coverage for the healthcare community and has partnered with Beazley Group, Ltd. to offer the coverage. Beazley has developed Beazley Breach Response and tailored it...
Vermont Settles Data Breach Case with Insurer for $55K
Jan 20 2011 // The Vermont Attorney General’s office says a Connecticut-based health insurance company is ready to pay $55,000 to settle a complaint that it didn’t inform customers that personal information had been lost...
Europe’s PERILS Data used in over $1 Billion Worth of Insurance Placements
Dec 16 2010 // PERILS AG, the independent Zurich-based company providing industry-wide European catastrophe insurance data, announced that total placements of insurance risk transactions based on the PERILS industry loss index to date in...
ISO Developing Data on Driver Behavior for Use by Insurers
Sep 23 2010 // ISO’s Applied Informatix unit is developing a data source for insurers that want to develop state-of-the-art underwriting and rating plans involving driving behavior or use analytics to differentiate their driving...
Insurers Probed Over Major League Baseball Teams’ Financial Data Leak
Sep 20 2010 // The New York Times reported that a Major League Baseball investigation into leaked financial documents is focused on insurance companies that do business with clubs. The Times reported the companies under investigation...
Connecticut Insurance Regulators Requiring Data Breach Notification
Aug 27 2010 // Five days. That’s how quickly agents and insurers must now notify Connecticut insurance regulators about a possible leak of clients’ personal information. The new bulletin, released earlier this month, follows...
Report: Insurers Probed Over Baseball Teams’ Financial Data Leak
Aug 26 2010 // The New York Times has reported that a Major League Baseball investigation into leaked financial documents is focused on insurance companies that do business with clubs. The Times reported the companies under investigation...
Florida Solicits Sinkhole Data from Insurers
Aug 25 2010 // Florida’s Office of Insurance Regulation issued a data call yesterday to the commercial and residential property insurance industry in Florida to collect claims data related to sinkholes. During the 2010 Legislative...
Health Insurer to Pay Connecticut $250K for Data Breach
Jul 8 2010 // A California-based health insurance company has agreed to pay Connecticut $250,000 for losing a disk drive containing private information of 1.5 million customers, including nearly 450,000 state residents. Attorney General...
Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Wins ACORD Award For Real Time Agency Data Upload
Jun 3 2010 // San Diego, CA, 06/03/2010 – ARROWHEAD General Insurance Agency, Inc., a leading provider of top rated insurance programs, is pleased to announce it was a recipient of an Early Adopter ACORD Award. Presenting the...
Oklahoma Raises $65M Selling Data; Customers Include Insurance Cos.
Apr 6 2010 // The state of Oklahoma has collected at least $65 million in the past five years by selling personal information from motor vehicle records, according to newspaper reports. Wellon Poe, the chief legal counsel for the...
Florida CFO Sink Wants Data on Troubled Property Insurers
Mar 22 2010 // Florida insurance regulators have notified a Jacksonville-based insurer that it has until the end of the month to comply with solvency requirements to avoid suspension or losing its license. The warning to Southern Oak...
Ohio Officials, Insurers Look to Protect Policyholder Data
Sep 23 2009 // Starting Nov. 2, 2009, Ohio regulators and all insurance companies that do business in the state will begin new procedures designed to protect policyholders’ personal information. Insurance companies will be required...
Best Withdraws ‘Public Data’ Ratings on UK Insurance Companies
Jul 13 2009 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has “withdrawn all public data (pd) ratings on UK insurance companies. Best last reveiwed the listed companies in December 2007. The financial strength ratings (FSR) and issuer credit...
Data Sharing from Leads360 Improves Insurance Lead Quality
Jul 10 2009 // AgentInsider®, InsuranceAgents.com, QuoteWizard & Others to Participate New Leads360 Lead Performance Intelligence™ Analytics Gives Insurance Lead Buyers and Sellers Unmatched Visibility into Lead Quality...
Insurer Complaint Data Released by Missouri Insurance Department
Jun 16 2009 // The Missouri Department of Insurance’s annual complaint index report has been posted at the department’s Web site, insurance.mo.gov, under the Information About Insurers section. Users can search more than...
Insurers Balk at FTC Order for Consumer Data in Credit Score Probe
Dec 23 2008 // The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) decision to order insurance companies to provide a wide array of consumers’ personal information in connection with a study of credit-based insurance scores and homeowners...
Ohio Health Insurer Investigates Missing Data on Retirees
Oct 24 2008 // Eleven computer disks containing personal information on thousands of Ohio retirees are missing and are believed to be somewhere in the US Postal Service, Medical Mutual of Ohio recently announced. The disks contain member...
Texas Issues Data Call to Insurers in Hurricane Ike’s Aftermath
Sep 23 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) is conducting a mandatory data call for certain information related to claims in the counties of Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Chambers, Cherokee, Fort Bend, Galveston, Gregg,...
