Latest Data Driven Headlines
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EMC Insurance Rolls Out Data Compromise Product
Feb 7 2012 // EMC Insurance Companies launched a new data compromise and identity recovery product at the start of February. The organization touts this as one of only a few products that offers this kind of coverage. The product was...
P/C Insurers Added No Jobs, Agencies Added 1500, Latest Data Show
Jan 23 2012 // Earlier this month, the U.S. Labor Department published its November 2011 data on detailed insurance industry employment figures. These latest figures show that in November, employment at insurance carriers rose overall,...
P/C Insurers Lost 900 Jobs in October, Labor Department Data Shows
Dec 7 2011 // Property/casualty insurers lost 900 jobs overall in October, according to latest government data. But insurers in other segments did better. Life insurer employment was up by 1,400. Employment at medical expense insurers...
Predictive Analytics Being Used to Manage Agencies, Curb Fraud
Nov 7 2011 // Earlier this year, experts at WallStreet & Technology (wallstreetandtech.com) identified predictive analytics and cloud computing as two of six hot technologies that will transform the insurance industry in 2011 and...
Nebraska Insurance Director Needs More Data on Exchange Cost
Oct 17 2011 // Nebraska insurance officials can’t decide whether to recommend a state-based health insurance exchange or follow a proposed federal model until they know how much the national plan will cost, Nebraska Department of...
Predictive Analytics Being Used to Manage Agencies, Curb Fraud
Oct 17 2011 // Earlier this year, experts at WallStreet & Technology (wallstreetandtech.com) identified predictive analytics and cloud computing as two of six hot technologies that will transform the insurance industry in 2011 and...
How Hospitals Benefit from Data-Rich Malpractice Insurers
Oct 14 2011 // Hospitals and hospital groups should seek clarity from their malpractice insurers on the loading applied to premiums to account for claims inflation, according to Lloyd’s insurer Beazley. Specialist insurer Beazley...
Sony Insurer, Zurich, Files Suit to Deny Data Breach Coverage
Aug 1 2011 // One of Sony Corp’s insurers has asked a court to declare that it does not have to pay to defend the media and electronics conglomerate from mounting legal claims related to a massive data breach earlier this...
Sony Insurer, Zurich, Files Suit to Deny Data Breach Coverage
Jul 21 2011 // One of Sony Corp’s insurers has asked a court to declare that it does not have to pay to defend the media and electronics conglomerate from mounting legal claims related to a massive data breach earlier this...
Sony’s Insurers to Help Foot Bill for Data Breach
May 6 2011 // Sony is looking to its insurers to help pay for its massive data breach, an amount that one expert estimates could exceed $2 billion, but others said insurers may balk at ponying up that kind of money. “We have a...
Sony Calls on Insurers to Help Pay for Data Breach
May 6 2011 // Sony is looking to its insurers to help pay for its massive data breach, an amount that one expert estimates could exceed $2 billion, but others said insurers may balk at ponying up that kind of money. “We have a...
XL Insurance Creates Electronic Data Destruction Coverage for E-Waste Recycling
Apr 5 2011 // XL Insurance, the global insurance operations of XL Group plc, has unveiled a new Electronic Data Destruction coverage enhancement developed exclusively for e-waste recyclers. “In the US alone, an estimated 400...
MMIC, Beazley Partner to Offer Data Privacy Insurance
Feb 22 2011 // MMIC Insurance, Inc. has launched data privacy insurance coverage for the healthcare community and has partnered with Beazley Group, Ltd. to offer the coverage. Beazley has developed Beazley Breach Response and tailored it...
Vermont Settles Data Breach Case with Insurer for $55K
Jan 20 2011 // The Vermont Attorney General’s office says a Connecticut-based health insurance company is ready to pay $55,000 to settle a complaint that it didn’t inform customers that personal information had been lost...
Europe’s PERILS Data used in over $1 Billion Worth of Insurance Placements
Dec 16 2010 // PERILS AG, the independent Zurich-based company providing industry-wide European catastrophe insurance data, announced that total placements of insurance risk transactions based on the PERILS industry loss index to date in...
ISO Developing Data on Driver Behavior for Use by Insurers
Sep 23 2010 // ISO’s Applied Informatix unit is developing a data source for insurers that want to develop state-of-the-art underwriting and rating plans involving driving behavior or use analytics to differentiate their driving...
Insurers Probed Over Major League Baseball Teams’ Financial Data Leak
Sep 20 2010 // The New York Times reported that a Major League Baseball investigation into leaked financial documents is focused on insurance companies that do business with clubs. The Times reported the companies under investigation...
Connecticut Insurance Regulators Requiring Data Breach Notification
Aug 27 2010 // Five days. That’s how quickly agents and insurers must now notify Connecticut insurance regulators about a possible leak of clients’ personal information. The new bulletin, released earlier this month, follows...
Report: Insurers Probed Over Baseball Teams’ Financial Data Leak
Aug 26 2010 // The New York Times has reported that a Major League Baseball investigation into leaked financial documents is focused on insurance companies that do business with clubs. The Times reported the companies under investigation...
Florida Solicits Sinkhole Data from Insurers
Aug 25 2010 // Florida’s Office of Insurance Regulation issued a data call yesterday to the commercial and residential property insurance industry in Florida to collect claims data related to sinkholes. During the 2010 Legislative...
