Technology, Internet News

Zurich Launches Risk Management Tool for Technology Companies

Zurich has launched Zurich Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) HealthCheck Tool to help provide mid-size to large technology companies with a realistic check of their current ERM preparedness. ERM can help to uncover and manage a company’s business challenges, including operations …

Atlanta’s ‘Only Live Insurance Agent’ Having Fun

He bills himself as Atlanta’s “only live insurance agent” — and he brings insurance to life on his Atlanta Insurance Live video blog and Web site at atlantainsurancelive.com. Insurance entrepreneur Chris Jordan has been profiled by Inc. magazine in a …

Navigators Enhances Technology Professional Liability for IT Firms

The Navigators Group’s principal underwriting agency subsidiary, Navigators Management Co., Inc., has introduced its Convergence policy, which will provide enhanced professional liability coverage to IT consultants, software developers, business process outsourcing firms, and providers of web-based services and other technology …

Court Blocks Web Site’s ‘Systematic Misappropriation’ of Analysts’ Research

A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday barred the financial news service Theflyonthewall.com from issuing immediate news about analyst research from several Wall Street banks, often before recommendations are shared with clients. Ruling in favor of Bank of America Corp.’s Merrill …

New York’s Bryan Insurance Gets Personal With Social Media

There’s no better time for insurance agents and brokers to delve into social networking technologies than now, according to those who study marketing and technology trends. More than four in five U.S. online adults use social networking tools — Facebook, …

Texas’ Preferred Personal Insurance Agency Writes More With Social Media

Gartner research shows mobile consumers spent $4.2 billion in 2009 at mobile applications stores, and that figure is expected to jump to $30 billion by 2013, said George Redenbaugh, assistant treasurer and senior director of risk management for eBay. With …

California’s Crescenta Valley Insurance Self-Brands With Social Media

“While young people continue to march toward almost universal adoption of social applications, the most rapid growth occurred among consumers 35 and older. This means the time to build social marketing applications is now. Interactive marketers should influence social network …

California DOI Launches Twitter Account

The California Department of Insurance has launched an official Twitter account, @CDInews. “I am always looking for new ways to reach out to and engage more consumers, and I am glad that we can take advantage of an innovative tool …

Top 10 Internet Frauds and Top 10 States for Fraud Complaints

Online crime complaints increased substantially once again last year, with the number of fraud complaints jumping 22.3 percent and total losses linked to online fraud reaching almost $560 million. That’s according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, a partnership between …

West Virginia to Create Electronic Auto Insurance Verification System

West Virginia lawmakers want to give police and the courts an easy way to verify whether a driver has required liability insurance. The House has approved a measure previously backed by the Senate to instruct the Division of Motor Vehicles …