Technology, Internet News

MarketScout Access Portal Connects Retail Agents to Starr

MarketScout, a Dallas, Texas-based electronic insurance exchange, has established Target Agent Gateway (TAG), which is a portal providing retail agent’s rapid access to Starr Insurance Companies. Also, to help agents gain access to the appropriate Starr underwriting divisions, MarketScout will …

Ironshore to Offer Monoline Network Security, Privacy Liability Coverage

IronPro, the professional liability division of Ironshore Inc. has introduced Enterprise PrivaProtector 9.0 to assist businesses in managing their network security and privacy risks. In 2010, the Identity Theft Resource Center reported 533 privacy breaches involving over 13 million personal …

Safety Remains a Concern for Nanotechnology Says Lloyd’s

Nanotechnology is finding wider and broader use in modern technology. It is “transforming product design and innovation among manufacturers of electronics goods, textiles, cosmetics and foodstuffs as well as in other fields of materials science,” notes an article on the …

Allied World U.S. Launches New Privacy Liability Product

Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, Ltd has launched a next generation of Allied World’s Privacy Liability product: Privacy//403v2. Privacy//403v2 is designed specifically for a broad spectrum of nonâ€technology companies including, financial institutions (banks and other commercial/consumer lenders), healthcare organizations (both …

General Star Adds Data Privacy Coverage for Medical Professionals

General Star has made four types of data privacy coverage available to its Select and Premier physicians & surgeons policies. The protection is included without additional charge. The enhancement was driven by a need for doctors and other medical professionals …

Texas Agency’s iPhone App Lets Customers Reach Agent on Their Terms

Who says insurance agents aren’t cool? A Texas-based independent insurance agency has proven they know what’s up with a new iPhone application that gives their customers access to important account information when they need it. Recognizing that losses don’t always …

Congress Takes Aim at Cybersecurity Threats

Proposed cybersecurity legislation circulating on Capitol Hill would give the president the power to declare an emergency in the case of big online attacks and force some businesses to beef up their cyber defenses and submit to scrutiny. The draft …

Northwest Ohio Users Group Named ASCnet Chapter of the Year

The Northwest Ohio ASCnet Users Group has been honored with the Applied Systems Client Network (ASCnet) 2010 Chapter of the Year Award. ASCnet Chapters Committee chair Dianna George, manager of Corporate Training and Personal Lines Underwriting for HUB International Ontario …

5 Lessons in Social Networking

Since its inception just a few years ago, social networking has provided both hype and hope for businesspeople. Social networking practitioners in the insurance industry have demonstrated over the past year how to deliver on the hope while moderating the …

16 Brokers to Use New Single-Entry Commercial Lines Insurance Exchange

Sixteen insurance brokerage firms have agreed to be the first to use a new Internet-based single entry submission system to transact commercial lines business with carriers, a system that will be made available to all agents and brokers and their …