March 25, 2010
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 …
March 24, 2010
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 …
March 19, 2010
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 …
March 19, 2010
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 …
March 18, 2010
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, …
March 18, 2010
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 …
March 18, 2010
“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 …
March 18, 2010
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 …
March 15, 2010
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 …
March 15, 2010
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 …