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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...
Harnessing technology in the London insurance market
May 22 2006 // Kinnect is dead! Long live Kinnect! Although Lloyd’s long troubled IT project was consigned to the flames last January (See IJ Website Jan. 24), a number of IT phoenix have risen from its ashes. “I think 2006...
Technology can help agents boost sales and more
May 22 2006 // Given the pace of today’s technological developments, it is often difficult for agency principals to know where to get the most bang for their buck. As most agency principals know, it is important to take a strategic...
Minimizing litigations and investigations by managing e-records
May 22 2006 // The focus of litigations and investigations on electronic documents, particularly e-mails, and the increasing accountability of compliance programs, including record retention, are leading organizations to reexamine their...
Technology can help agents boost sales and more
May 22 2006 // Given the pace of today’s technological developments, it is often difficult for agency principals to know where to get the most bang for their buck. As most agency principals know, it is important to take a strategic...
Harnessing technology in the London insurance market
May 22 2006 // Kinnect is dead! Long live Kinnect! Although Lloyd’s long troubled IT project was consigned to the flames last January (See IJ Website Jan. 24), a number of IT phoenix have risen from its ashes. “I think 2006...
Cornerstone Appraisal Services Completes Integration of e2Value’s Valuation Tools
May 12 2006 // Stamford, CT and Valparaiso, IN – Cornerstone Appraisal Services (Cornerstone) , a provider of high-value inspections and inspection technology for insurance carriers, and e2Value®, Inc., a leading provider of...
Consumers, many departments required to fight identity theft
May 8 2006 // Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a two-part roundtable discussion on identity theft. Part 1 examined the scope and source of identity theft, and can be found on page 100 of Insurance Journal’s...
Consumers, many departments required to fight identity theft
May 8 2006 // Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a two-part roundtable discussion on identity theft. Part 1 examined the scope and source of identity theft and can be found on page 100 of Insurance Journal’s...
Republic Companies Group Hires Vaccaro VP of Information Services
Apr 24 2006 // Dallas-based Republic Companies Group, Inc. recently hired Frank Vaccaro as the organization’s vice president of Information Services. Vaccaro most recently served as assistant vice president — Business Segment...
Ind. Family and Social Services Schedule Public Meetings on Uninsured
Apr 20 2006 // The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration will begin a series of 13 public meetings over the next seven weeks to discuss the issue of uninsured Indiana residents. The meetings will begin the first week of May...
Canada’s Commonwealth Signs Deal to Use EQECAT Cat Models
Apr 18 2006 // Oakland Calif.-based EQECAT, Inc., a provider of extreme-risk modeling, announced that Canada’s Commonwealth Insurance Company has signed a licensing agreement to use EQECAT’s WORLDCATenterprise(TM) platform...
Erie Indemnity Alters Personal Lines Technology Strategy
Apr 18 2006 // Erie Indemnity Company said it is halting development of its ERIEConnection, a personal lines policy administration and Web-based agency interface system. The company said it will instead now focus on more incremental,...
Technology
Apr 17 2006 // Given the pace of today’s technological developments, it is often difficult for agency principals to know where to get the most bang for their buck. As most agency principals know, it is important to take a strategic...
E-Discovery and Electronic Records
Apr 17 2006 // The focus of litigations and investigations on electronic documents, particularly e-mails, and the increasing accountability of compliance programs, including record retention, are leading organizations to reexamine their...
•Doron M. Rotman, audit and RAS managing director for Information Risk Management; and
Apr 17 2006 // The participants included: •Scott B. Moritz, director of KPMG Forensic; •Hugh C. Kelly, principal of Financial Risk Management; •Joanna Taylor, senior associate for Financial Risk Management; •Linda...
Technology
Apr 17 2006 // Given the pace of today’s technological developments, it is often difficult for agency principals to know where to get the most bang for their buck. As most agency principals know, it is important to take a strategic...
JLT Expands Lloyd’s Security/Privacy; Adds U.S. E&O Tech Coverage
Apr 4 2006 // JLT Risk Solutions Ltd;, part of London-based global broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc, announced a significantly expanded insurance program within the Lloyd’s of London market “to provide security and...
TDI’s Selden explains department’s high tech, high touch approach
Apr 3 2006 // Texas Department of Insurance Senior Associate Commis-sioner for Consumer Affairs Audrey Selden had a good news/bad news story for the insurance industry when she spoke at the Austin Insurance Day, sponsored in early March...
