Latest Data Driven Headlines
All the headlines from our Data Driven Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Health Insurer to Pay Connecticut $250K for Data Breach
Jul 8 2010 // A California-based health insurance company has agreed to pay Connecticut $250,000 for losing a disk drive containing private information of 1.5 million customers, including nearly 450,000 state residents. Attorney General...
Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Wins ACORD Award For Real Time Agency Data Upload
Jun 3 2010 // San Diego, CA, 06/03/2010 – ARROWHEAD General Insurance Agency, Inc., a leading provider of top rated insurance programs, is pleased to announce it was a recipient of an Early Adopter ACORD Award. Presenting the...
Oklahoma Raises $65M Selling Data; Customers Include Insurance Cos.
Apr 6 2010 // The state of Oklahoma has collected at least $65 million in the past five years by selling personal information from motor vehicle records, according to newspaper reports. Wellon Poe, the chief legal counsel for the...
Florida CFO Sink Wants Data on Troubled Property Insurers
Mar 22 2010 // Florida insurance regulators have notified a Jacksonville-based insurer that it has until the end of the month to comply with solvency requirements to avoid suspension or losing its license. The warning to Southern Oak...
Ohio Officials, Insurers Look to Protect Policyholder Data
Sep 23 2009 // Starting Nov. 2, 2009, Ohio regulators and all insurance companies that do business in the state will begin new procedures designed to protect policyholders’ personal information. Insurance companies will be required...
Best Withdraws ‘Public Data’ Ratings on UK Insurance Companies
Jul 13 2009 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has “withdrawn all public data (pd) ratings on UK insurance companies. Best last reveiwed the listed companies in December 2007. The financial strength ratings (FSR) and issuer credit...
Data Sharing from Leads360 Improves Insurance Lead Quality
Jul 10 2009 // AgentInsider®, InsuranceAgents.com, QuoteWizard & Others to Participate New Leads360 Lead Performance Intelligence™ Analytics Gives Insurance Lead Buyers and Sellers Unmatched Visibility into Lead Quality...
Insurer Complaint Data Released by Missouri Insurance Department
Jun 16 2009 // The Missouri Department of Insurance’s annual complaint index report has been posted at the department’s Web site, insurance.mo.gov, under the Information About Insurers section. Users can search more than...
Insurers Balk at FTC Order for Consumer Data in Credit Score Probe
Dec 23 2008 // The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) decision to order insurance companies to provide a wide array of consumers’ personal information in connection with a study of credit-based insurance scores and homeowners...
Ohio Health Insurer Investigates Missing Data on Retirees
Oct 24 2008 // Eleven computer disks containing personal information on thousands of Ohio retirees are missing and are believed to be somewhere in the US Postal Service, Medical Mutual of Ohio recently announced. The disks contain member...
Texas Issues Data Call to Insurers in Hurricane Ike’s Aftermath
Sep 23 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) is conducting a mandatory data call for certain information related to claims in the counties of Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Chambers, Cherokee, Fort Bend, Galveston, Gregg,...
Conn. Case over Disclosure of Insurance Agency Data to Continue
Sep 4 2008 // The Connecticut Supreme Court has declined to rule on a Florida company’s efforts to block state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal from disclosing information he obtained while investigating the insurance...
Millbrook, Valen Become P/C Insurance Data, Predictive Analytics Partners
Aug 1 2008 // Millbrook Inc., a provider of property/casualty insurance business intelligence and data services, and Valen, predictive analytics experts, have partnered to provide predictive analytics for the property/casualty insurance...
DarwinPro Insurance Covers Firms’ Data Privacy, Network Security Liability
Jul 21 2008 // Connecticut-based Darwin Professional Underwriters, Inc. is offering insurance coverage for health care organizations, financial institutions, and other businesses that utilize data as part of their daily business...
Montana’s Insurance Regulator Wants to Open Insurer Data
Jun 2 2008 // Montana’s insurance regulator John Morrison, said he wants to give consumers information on the conduct of insurance companies. Morrison said consumers could check to see how often a company cancels policies, delays...
Better Data Needed to Fight Cargo Thefts, Say Insurers, Law Enforcement
Apr 17 2008 // It’s like “Gone in 60 Seconds” with tractor trailers. Thieves steal billions of dollars of electronics, medicine, vehicles and other items from U.S. businesses each year by targeting trucks and other...
InsuranceLeadz.com Verifies Customer Data Through New LeadReady™ System
Jan 29 2008 // Columbus, OH, Jan 29 2008 – InsuranceLeadz.com, Inc. has just launched a new comprehensive lead verification service called LeadReady™. LeadReady™ allows InsuranceLeadz.com to instantly review and check every...
AI Risk’s LexExpress Delivers Excess Auto Liability for Truckers
Jan 22 2008 // AI Risk Specialists Insurance, Inc., a brokerage subsidiary of American International Group, Inc., has unveiled LexExpress, excess auto liability insurance for small to medium sized fleets in the trucking industry. It is...
Ohio Officials Alert Public about Data Breach by Hartford Insurance
Oct 31 2007 // Hartford Life Insurance has misplaced three backup tapes containing sensitive personal information on an unknown number of Ohio consumers, state insurance regulators said. The company says the data security breach was...
South Carolina Insurance Department Issues Data Call
Oct 9 2007 // In order to draw new carriers into South Carolina’s exposed coastal areas the Department of Insurance in coordination with the Wind and Hail Underwriting Association (Wind Pool) expanded coverage availability this...
