90% of Healthcare Firms Hit by Cyber Attack: Ponemon May 7, 2015 By Shannon Pettypiece A rise in cyber attacks against doctors and hospitals is costing the U.S. healthcare system $6 billion a year as...
Beyond Cars and Drones, Google Sees Pilotless Airlines May 6, 2015 By Thomas Black The chief of Google Inc.’s experimental cargo-drone program wants to see automated flight go beyond pilotless planes and extend to...
IIABNY: Study Shows N.Y. Insurance Agents Are Growing May 6, 2015 By Young Ha With deep roots in their communities, New York independent insurance agencies are healthy and growing, Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers...
Insurers See Impact from Wearable Devices Within 2 Years May 6, 2015 Nearly two-thirds of insurers expect wearable technologies to have a significant impact on the industry, according to a survey in...
Top 5 States for Vehicle Thefts with Keys Left Inside April 27, 2015 More and more drivers are making it easy for thieves. A new report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB)...
How the Age of Autonomous Vehicles Will Evolve April 24, 2015 Vehicles with varying levels of self-driving capability will start to become available to consumers as early as this summer and...
Workers’ Comp Study: California Reforms Lowered Medical Payments Per Claim April 23, 2015 A study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute indicates some benefits were had from California’s workers’ compensation reform bill. This...
‘Hungry’ Insurers Continued to Cut Commercial Prices in Q1: CIAB April 23, 2015 Insurance brokers report that the commercial property/casualty market continued to soften in the first quarter of 2015, with large accounts...
Plymouth Rock Survey: 1 in 3 N.J. Drivers Report Having Texted While Driving April 22, 2015 By Young Ha An annual study released this week by Plymouth Rock Assurance shows that 33 percent of New Jersey motorists surveyed admit...
How to Manage Risk of Valuable Properties Concentrated in Coastal Areas April 21, 2015 U.S insured property values as of 2014 exceed $90 trillion, but the bulk of that is increasingly concentrated in vulnerable...