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OneBeacon’s Medical Technology Insurance Includes Products Liability
Jan 15 2008 // OneBeacon Insurance Group thas a new insurance product, @vantage for MedTech, which offers products liability protection for businesses that develop, manufacture or distribute medical devices. Highlights of the Products...
Maintaining Profitability in a Changing Market
Jan 13 2008 // What will it take to get ahead in 2008? Managing insurance cycles to maintain profitability is a tricky proposition. Higher premiums produced by hard markets provide more income, but it may be difficult to find coverage...
On the Radar for 2008
Dec 23 2007 // It’s that time of year — predictions about everything from the economy to politics run rampant with a new year. Predicting the future is never easy. But there are some issues facing the independent agency system in...
Disaster Think Tank Coming to Florida Institute of Technology
Dec 17 2007 // Developing techniques for responding to hurricanes, tornadoes and other disasters will be the focus of a new think tank at the Florida Institute of Technology. Public and private agencies that met last week at a national...
Marsh Adds two Execs to Communications, Media and Technology Team
Dec 11 2007 // Marsh announced from its London office that Hutton Swinglehurst has been named as a Senior Vice President and Matthew Hogg as a Vice President of its global Communications, Media and Technology Practice (CMT). Both men...
N.H. Firm High-tech Helmet Tracks Sports, Military Brain Injuries
Dec 2 2007 // A high-tech helmet invented by a New Hampshire company is helping football teams and the military learn more about head injuries. The helmet and sensors created by research-and-development company Simbex LLC in Lebanon,...
Aon eSolutions Group Names Holden Chief Information Officer
Nov 30 2007 // Aon eSolutions Group, a unit of Aon Corp. recently announced that 18-year insurance technology veteran Paul Holden, has joined Aon eSolutions as chief information officer. With more than 18 years of experience in...
Fiserv CEO Yabuki Wins Top Innovator Award
Nov 16 2007 // Fiserv Inc., a provider of information technology services to the financial industry, announced its President and CEO Jeffery Yabuki has been awarded the top honor in the Innovator Award of 2007 from Bank Technology News,...
S.C.’s Rosenfeld Einstein Adds Mary Gilreath as Technology Manager
Nov 14 2007 // Upstate South Carolina-based Rosenfeld Einstein named Mary Gilreath as Technology Account Manager at the Greenville regional brokerage and consulting firm. Prior to joining Rosenfeld Einstein, Gilreath worked for Furman...
OneBeacon Technology Product Now Covers Data Privacy,Communications
Nov 13 2007 // OneBeacon Insurance Group has enhanced its professional liability coverages for information technology businesses. The company’s @vantage for Information Technology product now combines technology errors and...
Security of Vermont’s Enhanced Drivers’ License Questioned
Nov 6 2007 // The technology planned for an enhanced drivers’ license system that will allow Vermonters to return to the United States from Canada without a passport is insecure and a threat to privacy, according to some computer...
Ohio Casualty Honored by Technology Company, ASCnet
Nov 5 2007 // Ohio Casualty, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, announced that it was recently honored with three awards from Applied Systems Client Network (ASCnet), the user group for Applied Systems agency management technology, in...
How to put the brakes on truck crashes
Oct 27 2007 // Drivers of large trucks and other vehicles involved in truck crashes are 10 times more likely to be the cause of the crash than other factors, such as weather, road conditions, and vehicle performance, according to a study...
Pa. Agency Honored for Real-Time Capabilities
Oct 23 2007 // Pennsylvania’s Strickler Agency Inc. last week received the inaugural “Interface Agency of the Year Award” presented by the Applied Systems Client Network (ASCnet), the user group for Applied Systems...
Major Internet disruption would cost $250 billion in economic damages
Oct 8 2007 // New report urges CEOs to take action now to ensure continuity of their businesses should a meltdown occur A major disruption to the Internet would not only be detrimental to businesses, public institutions and citizens,...
BOPs deliver more now than in the old days
Oct 8 2007 // Today’s small, medium-sized owners get more and better coverage options in their business owners policies The business owner policy (BOP) of today is not the BOP of yesterday, industry experts agree. When the first...
News Currents
Oct 8 2007 // Major Internet disruption would cost $250 billion in economic damages New report urges CEOs to take action now to ensure continuity of their businesses should a meltdown occur A major disruption to the Internet would not...
BOPs deliver more now than in the old days
Oct 8 2007 // The business owner policy (BOP) of today is not the BOP of yesterday, industry experts agree. When the first BOP coverage was introduced in the late 1970s, it was mostly utilized by direct writers whose niche in the...
Minn. Department Adds New Technology for Product Filing Process
Oct 2 2007 // Companies will have an easier time searching a database for property/casualty products. The Minnesota Department of Commerce Commissioner Glenn Wilson announced on Friday, Sept.28th that the department has launched its...
Major Internet Disruption Would Cost $250 Billion in Economic Damages
Sep 25 2007 // A major disruption to the Internet would not only be detrimental to businesses, public institutions and citizens, but would also cost the global economy an estimated $250 billion, according to a report released by the...
