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Insurance Industry Says Cyber Threat Database Needed
Apr 6 2015 // Cyber insurance is one of the fastest growing property/casualty insurance markets. But the sector remains the Wild West of risk prevention, a fast moving target with rapidly-evolving risk portfolios, along with losses and...
IICF Club100 in Hollywood Recognized Insurance Pros for Charity
Apr 6 2015 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s Club100 event at the Avalon Hollywood in Hollywood, Calif., on March 30 drew more than 200 industry professionals to help raise funds for charity. The annual IICF event...
Google Takes the Wheel
Apr 6 2015 // When Google stepped into the insurance ring last month, the industry took note. Some said agents and the insurance industry should be concerned. Others said Google Compare, as the new service is named, is nothing new in...
PERILS Updates Insurance Industry Exposure Database & Adds Austria
Apr 1 2015 // Catastrophe insurance data provider PERILS AG announced the release of the 2015 update for its Industry Exposure Database (IED), “contains updated market-wide property sums insured for European windstorm for the...
Intygral – New Leadership, New Corporate Name with A Fresh Vision for Insurance Industry Digital Marketing System
Mar 25 2015 // New Identity Reflects Increased Focus on Expanding Collaboration and Successful Partnerships with Insurance Agencies Warwick, RI, March 25, 2015 – More than 70 percent of consumers turn to the Internet first – via...
UK Report Highlights Role of Insurance in Managing, Mitigating Cyber Risk
Mar 24 2015 // Last year 81 percent of large UK businesses and 60 percent of small companies suffered a cyber security breach. In response to this increasing threat, a report published by the UK government and Marsh, one of the...
Vertafore Gathers Leading Agencies and Carriers For The Insurance Industry’s Leading Technology Conference, NetVU 2015
Mar 23 2015 // Over 3,000 Insurance Professionals Meet in Indianapolis To See Vertafore’s Latest Innovations Designed to Accelerate Growth For The Entire Insurance Ecosystem Bothell, WA, March 23, 2015 – Vertafore®, the leading...
Hot Markets for 2015
Mar 23 2015 // Insurance Journal examined industries experiencing changes and expansions in the past year. Here are the top market sectors that just might deliver hot opportunities for agents and brokers in the property/casualty...
IICF Club100 in Hollywood Recognized Insurance Pros for Charity
Mar 20 2015 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s Club100 event at the Avalon Hollywood in Hollywood, Calif. on Thursday night drew more than 200 industry professionals to help raise funds for charity. The annual IICF...
Willis Re Introduces Suite of Flood Analytics for Canada Insurance Market
Mar 20 2015 // Willis Re, the reinsurance division of Willis Group Holdings plc, has unveiled a new suite of flood solutions offering analytical capabilities that will enable insurers to proactively manage Canada flood...
It’s Time for Insurance Reform in Louisiana
Mar 17 2015 // Louisiana is vulnerable to extreme weather and natural catastrophes in ways only a few other states experience. By all indications, that exposure will only grow worse, as a combination of sea rise, erosion and subsidence...
Industry Expertise, Data, Capital Can Help Reduce Global Disaster Risks: Interview
Mar 17 2015 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Margareta Wahlström, the UN Secretary General’s special representative for disaster risk reduction, and Rowan Douglas, Willis CEO for capital, science and policy practice, have been...
California Commissioner Names New Insurance Diversity Task Force
Mar 16 2015 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Monday announced the members of the 2015-2016 Insurance Diversity Task Force, which will make recommendations to Jones on ways to increase diversity in procurement and...
Insurance Industry Presence Supports UN’s Disaster Risk Reduction Quest
Mar 16 2015 // The re/insurance industry has answered the call presented by the UN’s Disaster Risk Reduction initiative, as industry representatives gathered with others to attend the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk...
Google Compare May Go Beyond Auto Insurance
Mar 11 2015 // The way Valen Analytics President and CEO Dax Craig describes it, Google’s move into insurance with Google Compare for auto insurance is an “all-aboard, wake-up-and-smell-the-coffee” call to the insurance...
Low Insurance Penetration Creates Asia-Pacific Opportunities: Aon Benfield
Mar 11 2015 // As rapid economic development, population growth and urbanization lead to increased insurance penetration, Asia Pacific represents a key area of growth in the global marketplace, according to a report published by Aon...
IICF Announces $505K in Grants at Dallas Benefit Dinner
Mar 11 2015 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s (IICF) Texas/Southeast Division announced it is providing a record-breaking $505,000 in grants to area and regional nonprofits in 2015. The grants total is the largest...
Capital Ownership, Cost a Challenge for Insurance Industry: Berkley CEO
Mar 11 2015 // The U.S. economy is evolving in many ways, most significantly when it comes to both the cost of capital and the ownership of capital, and that change in capital ownership is a challenge for the insurance industry,...
Berkley: Google’s Entry Into Auto Insurance Should Frighten Agents
Mar 9 2015 // That Google is getting into auto insurance should have the voice in the head of every agent who sells personal auto coverage saying: “Be afraid, be very afraid.” OK, that’s not exactly how W.R. Berkley...
What’s Driving Nonstandard Auto – Technology, Consolidation, Population Changes, Fuel Specialty, Opportunity
Mar 9 2015 // The nonstandard auto market is characterized by substandard operating performance. Since 2007, carriers writing nonstandard auto policies have reported deteriorating operating performance and many are struggling to...
