Too busy fleeing from a hurricane to decide which evacuation route to take in Mississippi? You may want to check your cell phone or laptop for a tweet. Mississippi Department of Transportation officials will use the micro-blogging platform Twitter to …
“We’ve experienced good growth over the last ten years, and we’re looking to expand further,” said Stewart McCulloch, head of UK and insurance operations for London-based service provider Xchanging. That’s something of an understatement. The company might best be described …
Insurance broker Aon Corp. has introduced a suite of insurance products designed to bring middle market technology companies the coverage enhancements historically only available to large corporate clients. Known as Aon Preferred for Technology, the new product suite has been …
Dallas-based Roach Howard Smith & Barton (RHSB), an independent insurance brokerage firm and Assurex Global partner, expanded its firm to include a new Technology, Life Science & Media (TLM) specialty practice group. Traditionally, technology, life science and media are industries …
Travelers launched a new automated system that allows agents to rate, quote and issue policies electronically and more efficiently for agribusiness insurance. The new interface — Travelers Agribusiness System (TAgS) — will be helpful to agents that sell agribusiness insurance, …
Peoria, Ill.-based RLI Corp. began offering its new network security and privacy coverage – CyberSecure – which insures losses from system vulnerability, security issues and a wide range of exposures to financial loss arising from network security and privacy breaches. …
A Republican lawmaker in Tennessee is asking a judge to dismiss a $750,000 libel lawsuit against him on the basis that his blog is covered by legislative immunity. The lawsuit was filed by Roger Byrge, an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for …
Brad Gow joined Zurich North America to head the Specialty Errors & Omissions (E&O) group of its Specialties business unit. In this role, Gow will head a nationwide team in delivering professional liability protection to markets including engineering, media, technology, …
The number of Americans ensnared by identity theft is on the rise, but victims are striking back more quickly and limiting how much is stolen. In 2008, the number of identity theft cases jumped 22 percent to 9.9 million, according …
Catastrophe risk and cat modeling firm, Karen Clark & Co., launched a new software product that helps insurance companies collect and analyze data from property inspections. The application, RiskRover, is designed to help insurers obtain better information about the properties …
