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Employers, Lawmakers Push Doctors to Adopt Electronic Prescriptions
Feb 22 2008 // Motivated by mounting medical costs, lawmakers and executives are urging doctors to embrace a seemingly simple way to save billions of dollars a year: prescribe medications online. Officials in the public and private...
Survey: Industry CEOs Overlook Potential of Technology
Feb 21 2008 // A new survey by New York research firm found that property casualty insurer CEOs tend to focus more on the benefits of using technology to enhance distribution and service of their products, but have shortchanged how...
Willis ‘CyPro’ to Cover Business Interruption, Costs from Data Loss
Feb 20 2008 // Willis Group Holdings has launched a new facility to cover business interruption and recovery costs stemming from malicious and accidental loss of data. Willis described its CyPro, as a “new suite of products,”...
Report: D&O Insurance Costs Highest for Financial, Tech, Life Science Firms
Feb 5 2008 // A new study has found that the financial services, technology and life sciences industries face the highest premiums for directors and officers liability insurance, with the lowest premiums found in energy and...
Stuckey & Co. Answers When Business is Liable for Blogs, Email, RSS Feeds
Jan 31 2008 // Nearly every company distributes electronic content over the Internet. There are 100 million daily video streams from YouTube.com alone, more than 60 million blogs being disseminated, more than 60 billion emails per day,...
Agents Have Options to Profit as Cycles Turn
Jan 27 2008 // Trust, efficiency, quality, knowledge are among the values independent agents bring to the insurance transaction Managing insurance cycles to maintain profitability is a tricky proposition. Higher premiums produced by hard...
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...
