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Is U.S. Prepared for a Cyber Catastrophe? Businesses Say, ‘No’
Jul 28 2006 // Testifying before a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Subcommittee, Karl Brondell of State Farm Insurance Companies warned that the U.S. is not adequately prepared for a cyber catastrophe. The insurance...
FleetRisk Advisors Names Wagner President, COO
Jul 25 2006 // FleetRisk Advisors, a provider of predictive analytics and loss control services to the fleet transportation industry, has appointed David C. Wagner president and chief operating officer. Wagner previously worked at...
Travelers ‘CD’ Targets Risk Control for Tech Firms
Jul 21 2006 // Travelers has created a new CD, “The Best of Technology Risk Control,” to assist technology businesses seeking information on topics such as business continuity, workers’ compensation and manufacturing...
NAS Reduces Minimum Premiums for Computer/Technology Liability
Jul 21 2006 // Encino, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services has introduced more flexible classes for most classes of computer/technology liability insurance risks. The minimum premiums of many high risk classes have been reduced. For the...
The Hartford Expands Professional Liability Product for Tech Firms
Jul 17 2006 // Connecticut-based The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has announced that its member companies have expanded the policy limits available to customers from $1 million to $2 million on The Hartford’s FailSafe...
Shreveport, La., Police Using High-Tech Cars as Bait
Jul 10 2006 // Cars donated by insurance companies around the state will soon be put out as bait for Shreveport, La.’s thieves. They’ll be left out on the street as soon as officers can be taught how to use their high-tech...
The right time to begin
Jul 4 2006 // Nearly five years ago, a group of program specialists gathered in Tempe, Ariz., for the first summit meeting of a budding industry organization called the Target Markets Program Administrators Association. The brainchild...
Editor’s Note: Cyber storms
Jul 3 2006 // As reports of computer security breaches proliferate — the latest being the federal government’s snafu that put millions of veterans at risk for identity theft — the public is losing confidence in the...
Things that should keep you awake at night
Jul 3 2006 // The integration of the U.S. insurance market and global financial market will have a profound impact on business, according to Dave Zwiener, president and chief operating officer of Property and Casualty Operations for The...
Federal Study Recommends Multi-function Phased Array Weather Radar
Jun 23 2006 // A new study just released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration details the weather-prediction benefits of a national transition from existing weather radar systems to a newer system using a multifunction...
Things that should keep you awake at night
Jun 19 2006 // The integration of the U.S. insurance market and global financial market will have a profound impact on business, according to Dave Zwiener, president and chief operating officer of Property and Casualty Operations for The...
In N.H.’s positive climate, insurers free to focus on competition and technology
Jun 19 2006 // News Currents Insurers find the political and regulatory environment in New Hampshire favorable. “[I]t’s clear that in New Hampshire, we have a different marketplace than the other New England states....
In N.H.’s positive climate, insurers free to focus on competition and technology
Jun 19 2006 // News Currents Insurers find the political and regulatory environment in New Hampshire favorable. “[I]t’s clear that in New Hampshire, we have a different marketplace than the other New England states....
Things that should keep you awake at night
Jun 19 2006 // The integration of the U.S. insurance market and global financial market will have a profound impact on business, according to Dave Zwiener, president and chief operating officer of Property and Casualty Operations for The...
Jack Porter Joins Ill. Insuresoft as Vice President of Business Development
Jun 13 2006 // University Park, Ill.-based Insuresoft has added Jack Porter, former cirector of Business Development with Computer Sciences Corp., as its new vice president of Business Development. Porter grew up in a family agency where...
Study: Stability Control Technology Could Reduce Fatal Crashes
Jun 13 2006 // Ten thousand fatal automobile crashes a year, nearly one-third of all such accidents, could be prevented if more vehicles were equipped with technology that helps to keep them from rolling over, the insurance industry said...
Scottsdale Insurance Names Griffith Information Technology Vice President
Jun 6 2006 // Scottsdale Insurance Co., an excess and surplus insurer based in Scottsdale, Ariz., has promoted Joseph “Joe” Griffith to vice president and chief information officer. Griffith will be responsible for leading...
Business continuity lessons from hurricane season
Jun 5 2006 // Hurricane season 2006 is here and it is time to re-evaluate the lessons learned from last year’s destructive hurricanes. Due to the 2005 hurricanes’ size and strength, financial and operational repercussions...
Business continuity lessons from hurricane season
Jun 5 2006 // Hurricane season 2006 is here and it is time to re-evaluate the lessons learned from last year’s destructive hurricanes. Due to the 2005 hurricanes’ size and strength, financial and operational repercussions...
Insurance industry lags behind in technology but consumers can help
Jun 5 2006 // Brokers work in the trenches — acquiring clients, searching for the right coverage, writing policies and getting compensated. It is technology that makes their jobs easier and it should be welcomed. Better efficiency...
