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Florida School District Hit by Data Breach Affecting 7K Employees Has Cyber Insurance

Feb 15 2017 // Authorities say as many as 7,700 Manatee County school employees are at risk of being victims of a data breach.School officials learned earlier this month that two payroll employees of the school district along...

Why Predictive Modeling Is Gaining as Fraud Fighting Tool

Feb 13 2017 // Declining costs, the availability of cloud storage and the rise of telematics will likely increase predictive analytic adoption rates, according to Dan Donovan, assistant vice president of Claims Solutions at Verisk...

Tech Firms Collecting Data: How Much Do Consumers Know or Care?

Jan 17 2017 // Nearly every technology startup wants the same thing: more data.But in the rush to collect all manner of information about customers, tensions are rising in Silicon Valley over whether such practices amount to a form of...

Texas Issues Mandatory Data Call to Property/Casualty Insurers

Dec 19 2016 // The Texas Department of Insurance has issued a mandatory annual data call to all insurance companies writing private passenger nonfleet automobile, homeowners multiple peril, workers’ compensation, commercial fire...

Data Provider Location Inc. Gets California Department of Insurance OK

Dec 15 2016 // Location Inc. announced that the California Department of Insurance has approved its predictive crime analytics for rate filing, making it the 12th state the firm has received approval for rate filings. Location Inc....

Allstate Continues Its Technology Drive, Invests in Autonomous Vehicle Research at Stanford

Dec 15 2016 // Allstate Insurance Co., the nation’s largest publicly-held personal lines insurer, is continuing its drive into new technology, agreeing to a multi-year research project with the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at...

Georgia Orders Property Insurers to Report Hurricane Matthew Claims Data

Nov 2 2016 // The Georgia Department of Insurance is ordering all insurers operating in the state to report claims information related to Hurricane Matthew. The storm, which began its path through Georgia starting Oct. 7, is estimated...

IBM Sees Advantage in Client Owning Watson-Generated Knowledge

Oct 28 2016 // IBM Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty sees proprietary data combined with artificial intelligence technology as the competitive advantage for companies going forward.When International Business Machines Corp. works...

CEO of Hawaii’s Largest Comp Provider Says to Embrace Predictive Analytics

Oct 3 2016 // Getting employee buy-in may be the biggest key in getting a company to successfully adopt predictive analytics and other cutting-edge technologies, said Martin Welch, CEO of Hawaii Employers Mutual Insurance Co.Welch has...

The Institutes Offers Insurance Data Analytics Designation

Sep 20 2016 // Insurance education provider The Institutes has launched an Associate in Insurance Data Analytics (AIDA) designation.The four courses leading to the designation provide an overview of advanced analytics and its application...

Cat-Insurance Data Provider PERILS Expands Into Australia

Sep 13 2016 // PERILS, the independent Zurich-based company providing industry-wide catastrophe insurance data, has extended its market coverage to include Australia.PERILS now provides market-wide property sums insured that are exposed...

Tech to Detect Fraud

Jun 20 2016 // Fraudsters are more often caught by tip-offs and complaints, management review, accidentally, suspicious superiors and internal audits than by use of technology and data analytics.According to consulting firm KPMG, North...

What Do You Get When You Combine Drones and Self-Driving Cars?

Jun 20 2016 // That’s one small step for drones, and no steps needed for mankind.Autonomous drone transport for humans. Why not? We’re eventually getting autonomous cars so you don’t have to do the driving, and drones...

UMass Amherst Gets $15M From MassMutual for Data Science, Cybersecurity

Jun 14 2016 // The University of Massachusetts Amherst is receiving a $15 million donation to strengthen its data science and cybersecurity programs.The 10-year donation comes from the MassMutual Foundation, a charitable arm of the...

Companies Rely More on Tips Than Technology to Detect Fraud: KPMG

Jun 13 2016 // Fraudsters are more often caught by tip-offs and complaints, management review, accidentally, suspicious superiors and internal audits than by use of technology and data analytics.According to consulting firm KPMG, North...

What Do You Get When You Combine Drones and Self-Driving Cars?

Jun 9 2016 // That’s one small step for drones, and no steps needed for mankind.Autonomous drone transport for humans. Why not? We’re eventually getting autonomous cars so you don’t have to do the driving, and drones...

Federal Court Rules CGL Insurance Covers Data Breach

Apr 12 2016 // A federal appeals court in Virginia has upheld a lower federal court in ruling that a commercial general liability policy (CGL) may cover a data breach. In a case involving the publication of private medical records on the...

Aon Benfield Launches Global Reinsurer Trading Platform with Real-Time Data

Apr 5 2016 // Aon Benfield, the reinsurance intermediary and capital adviser of Aon plc, will launch on April 11 a global reinsurer trading platform called ABConnect Placements.Available for use with the July 1 renewals, ABConnect...

ISO to Collect Terrorism Insurance Data for Treasury

Apr 4 2016 // The property/casualty insurance data and rating organization ISO will collect and help analyze terrorism data this year for the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the federal agency charged with gauging the effectiveness of...

Beazley Provides Data Breach Response Insurance in Canada

Mar 31 2016 // Beazley announced the launch of the company’s flagship Beazley Breach Response (BBR) product in Canada, which is data breach response insurance that protects the personal data of up to five million individuals per...