Latest Verisk Analytics Headlines
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Verisk Opens Commercial Property Data to MGAs, Program Managers
Apr 15 2016 // Verisk Insurance Solutions said it is making its data for loss estimating of commercial properties available to managing general agents (MGA), managing general underwriters (MGU), and program administrators and others in...
Verisk Analytics Acquires Risk Intelligence Ireland, Expanding Global Footprint
Apr 14 2016 // Verisk Analytics Inc. announced the acquisition of Risk Intelligence Ireland, a leading provider of fraud detection, compliance, risk control, and process automation services to the Irish insurance industry. “Risk...
Verisk in Talks to Sell Health Data Unit to Carlyle Group: Reuters
Apr 8 2016 // Private equity firm Carlyle Group LP is in advanced talks to acquire the healthcare information technology division of U.S. data analytics company Verisk Analytics Inc., according to people familiar with the...
Verisk’s AIR Worldwide Names Churney to Succeed Lee as President
Jan 8 2016 // Data firm Verisk Analytics has appointed Bill Churney as president of its AIR Worldwide risk modeling business. Churney had been serving as AIR’s chief operating officer. Churney succeeds Ming Lee, who retired as AIR...
Technology Enables Insurers to Verify Garaging Location, Mileage and More
Nov 5 2015 // Auto insurance companies now have a tool that lets them verify the garaging address of a vehicle, confirm the driver’s commuting mileage and obtain loss costs and premium differentials for the vehicle, all before...
Surging Verisk Analytics Added to S&P 500
Oct 1 2015 // Verisk Analytics Inc., the provider of data to insurers and banks, was named to join the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index after the company’s market value passed $12 billion on a share rally and expansion...
Verisk Names Zurich’s Mourad as Senior VP Commercial Lines
Sep 8 2015 // Maroun Mourad, most recently with Zurich Insurance, has joined insurance information provider Verisk Insurance Solutions as senior vice president of Commercial Lines Domestic and Global, ISO Insurance Programs and Analytic...
Wildfire Report Shows 2 Million California Homes at Risk as Drought Continues
Jul 6 2015 // A report issued in June shows California has more than 2 million homes at “high” or “extreme” wildfire risk, as the multi-year drought continues to stoke fears among some experts of a potentially...
Wildfire Report Shows 2 Million California Homes at Risk as Drought Continues
Jun 10 2015 // A report issued today shows California has more than 2 million homes at “high” or “extreme” wildfire risk, as the multi-year drought continues stoke fears among some experts of a potentially...
Report: 4.5 Million Homes in 13 States at Extreme Wildfire Risk
Jun 10 2015 // A report issued today shows 4.5 million U.S. homes at high or extreme risk of wildfire as the multi-year drought continues. The report’s author said the worsening drought means 2015 has the potential to be one of the...
Insurers Can Track Mileage with Policyholders’ Smartphones
Jun 2 2015 // Property/casualty insurance information company Verisk Insurance Solutions is teaming with technology firm Vehcon to provide insurance companies with the ability to collect automobile odometer readings for insurance rating...
Verisk Expands Wildfire Risk Service to 3 More States
May 5 2015 // Verisk Insurance Solutions has added Montana, Oklahoma and Wyoming to its FireLine wildfire risk management service. FireLine provides information to insurers to analyze wildfire risk at the individual address...
Verisk Analytics to Buy UK’s Wood Mackenzie in $1.937 Billion Deal – Source
Mar 10 2015 // Verisk Analytics Inc. has agreed to acquire British analytics firm Wood Mackenzie for more than €1.8 billion ($1.937 billion), according to a source familiar with the matter. Wood Mackenzie, a private research...
Antitrust Concerns End Verisk Bid for Rival EagleView Technology
Dec 17 2014 // Verisk Analytics Inc. scrapped a planned $650 million takeover of EagleView Technology Corp. after antitrust regulators said the deal would give the company too large a share in the market for aerial images used by...
Verisk Closes New Jersey Office Today Due to Electrical Problem
Oct 2 2014 // Insurance data firm Verisk Analytics Inc. said that it has closed its Jersey City, New Jersey, office today due to an electrical problem in the building. Customers are directed to call 1-800-888-4476 or send e-mail to...
Antitrust Review Delays Verisk’s Purchase of EagleView
Sep 29 2014 // Verisk Analytics Inc., the supplier of data to insurers and banks, said its planned $650 million takeover of EagleView Technology Corp. has been delayed amid a review by antitrust regulators. The purchase agreement has...
Verisk to Sell Mortgage Data Arm Interthinx to First American for $155M
Feb 7 2014 // First American Financial Corp., the second-largest U.S. title insurer, agreed to buy Interthinx Inc. from Verisk Analytics Inc. for $155 million to add data that serves the mortgage industry. The sale will increase 2014...
Verisk Buying EagleView Technology for $650M to Add Images of U.S. Structures
Jan 15 2014 // Verisk Analytics Inc., the supplier of data to insurers and banks, agreed to buy EagleView Technology Corp. for $650 million in cash, adding an image library that encompasses about 90 percent of U.S. structures. The deal...
Verisk Climate, WDT to Develop Weather-Related Analytics Products for Businesses
Dec 18 2013 // Verisk Climate, a provider of enterprise climate risk management products, and Weather Decision Technologies (WDT), a weather industry technology provider, have formed a long-term alliance to develop new, more advanced...
Report Shows Nearly 5 Million Homes Endangered by Wildfires
Dec 2 2013 // More than 4.5 million U.S. households are at high or extreme risk from wildfire, according to new analysis by Verisk Insurance Solutions – Underwriting, a unit of Verisk Analytics. The analysis identified the number...
