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Technology Changing Perceptions of Tornadoes, Damages
May 28 2014 // Experts say that advances in technology, particularly social media, are changing how people watch for severe weather and how quickly images of the damage can be shared. John Robinson, the warning coordinator for the...
XL’s Rosengarten on How Mega Trends Exacerbate Risks; It’s a Scary World
May 27 2014 // Jacob Rosengarten, Chief Enterprise Risk Officer for XL Group, in a keynote speech at the European Insurance Forum in Dublin, examined how greater connectivity and technology are intensifying global risks and contributing...
New Tech Millionaires Trust Technology Over Traditional Financial Advisers
May 23 2014 // When the nine-person start-up he co-founded was bought by Facebook for a reported $15 million in January, Cemre Gungor, 27, was inundated with phone calls and emails from wealth advisers. Yet he spurned them all, opting...
Vermont Becomes 1st State to Offer Text-to-911 Service Statewide
May 22 2014 // Sometimes a voice call to 911 just won’t work, such as for deaf people in need of help or in certain domestic violence cases. Now, in a big step toward moving the nation’s emergency dispatch system out of...
America’s Businesses Vexed by Medical, Legal, Tech Risks: Survey
May 21 2014 // Regardless of size, American businesses say medical cost inflation, legal liabilities and technology risks are among their top concerns, according to an annual Business Risk Index from Travelers. The survey polled more...
Carmakers, Regulators Looking Into Flaws in Air Bag Technology
May 16 2014 // When Ford Motor Co. recalled 600,000 sport-utility vehicles last week, it became the fourth carmaker this year to acknowledge an issue with malfunctioning air bags. So far in 2014, automakers in the U.S. have recalled...
How Technology Is Revolutionizing Insurance Distribution: Swiss Re
May 15 2014 // Technology is changing the way insurers and consumers interact and giving insurers access to considerable data so they can better understand their customers, says Swiss Re in its latest sigma study. The study concludes...
ACE Expands Digital Technology Offering to Address Product Recall Risks
May 15 2014 // ACE Group has launched a new endorsement to help protect technology companies from exposures resulting from products that are sold and distributed to third-parties. The new ACE DigiTech and Product Recall endorsement...
Agents’ Dream Come True? Single Password for Multiple Carriers Launched
May 5 2014 // The insurance industry is moving to end the clutter of “sticky notes” with passwords on monitors everywhere with a tool that reduces the need for agencies to keep multiple passwords. A non-profit industry...
10 Challenges Ahead for Workers’ Compensation
May 5 2014 // Today’s challenges are also tomorrow’s opportunities depending on the viewpoint. Those same opportunities could also remain tomorrow’s challenges. This special report highlights 10 current workers’...
Measuring Agency Performance Can’t Be Done with Technology Alone
May 5 2014 // Bruce Cochrane of the Renaissance Alliance says agents have to measure everything to stay competitive, however that does not mean relying on technology alone, according to experts who work with and for...
Now Mastering City Streets: Google’s Driverless Cars
Apr 30 2014 // Google says its self-driving cars are motoring along: they can navigate freeways comfortably, albeit with a driver ready to take control. But city driving – with its obstacle course of stray walkers, bicyclists and blind...
Lockton Technology Practice Expands to East Coast with Groeber
Apr 22 2014 // Insurance broker Lockton announced that Shannon Groeber has joined its Philadelphia operation as senior vice president, Global Technology & Privacy Practice. Groeber’s addition expands the practice to the East...
How Uber, Tesler Are Disrupting Transportation Monopolies: Viewpoint
Apr 22 2014 // Question: What’s an automotive monopolist’s worst nightmare? Answer: Uber picks you up in a Tesla. Two big Silicon Valley companies are busy disrupting state-sponsored transportation monopolies. Uber is...
What’s Next for Cyber Insurance?
Apr 21 2014 // Back to the Beginning: Moving Beyond Breaches There’s a saying in the cybersecurity industry that there are two types of businesses today: Those that have been breached and know it and those that have been breached...
U.S. Warns Businesses on Major Web Technology Bug ‘Heartbleed’
Apr 8 2014 // A newly discovered bug in widely used Web encryption technology has made data on many of the world’s major websites vulnerable to theft by hackers in what experts say is one of the most serious security flaws...
Scientists Warn: Prepare Now for Next Nuclear Plant Accident
Apr 6 2014 // Three major atomic accidents in 35 years are forcing the world’s nuclear industry to stop imagining it can prevent more catastrophes and to focus instead on how to contain them. Of the 176 new reactors planned across...
Malaysian Plane Tragedy Increases Pressure for Plane Tracking after MH370
Apr 6 2014 // Four weeks into the hunt for MH370, pressure is building for better ways of tracking aircraft as regulators wrestle with the Malaysian jet’s disappearance armed with only minimal information on the fate of its 227...
How Robots, Drones Are Transforming Mining and Mine Safety
Apr 4 2014 // Mines without miners? Not quite. Still, a technology boom in robots, drones, driverless trucks and pilotless trains is beginning to reshape one of the world’s most labor-intensive industries, portending automation of...
Alibaba’s Grand Vision for E-Commerce Empire Includes Insurance
Apr 3 2014 // Alibaba, the world’s biggest e-commerce company, changed how China shops. Now the man driving its blockbuster U.S. stock sale wants to transform the rest of the country’s services industry, adding new users to...
