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Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC Hires Jesse Mauser as Vice President of Data Analytics

Mar 29 2016 // San Diego, CA, March 29, 2016 – Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC, a national multi-line program administrator, welcomes Jesse Mauser as Vice President of Data Analytics.Mauser will provide comprehensive coverage of...

ISO to Collect Terrorism Insurance Data for Treasury

Mar 28 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...

State Lawmakers Seeking Ways to Grapple with ‘Big Data’ in Insurance

Mar 7 2016 // Insurance is about information. Outside of the technology industry itself, few sectors are better situated to seize the advantages of so-called “big data” than insurance.Such was the consensus of a panel...

U.S. Treasury Seeks Terrorism Data from Insurers

Mar 4 2016 // The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office (FIO) is requesting that insurers voluntarily submit insurance data regarding their participation in the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program (TRIP).The...

P/C Insurers Expanding Use of Predictive Models, Big Data Across Functions

Mar 3 2016 // Over the next two years, many property/casualty insurers expect to advance their use of predictive analytics to both improve business performance and leverage big data, according to Willis Towers Watson, which adds that...

Supreme Court Blocks States from Collecting Self-Insurers’ Health Cost Data

Mar 1 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Vermont cannot compel health insurers to hand over data on the amount paid on medical claims, backing Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.’s contention that federal law prohibited...

Texas to Insurers: 2015 Policy Count Data Due March 1

Feb 17 2016 // The date for licensed insurance carriers, surplus lines companies and health maintenance organizations to submit policy count data for 2015 is approaching.Texas Department of Insurance is required by the state insurance...

IDT911 Enhances Data Breach Services for Commercial Insureds

Feb 16 2016 // IDT911 has enhanced its DataRiskStages data breach mitigation and remediation service for insurance companies and their commercial policyholders. The DataRiskStages platform has been enriched with three new features:...

Data Conversion Startup Captricity Gets White Mountain Insurance Backing

Feb 3 2016 // Captricity Inc., an Oakland, Calif.-based startup that gives businesses in regulated industries easy access to customer data trapped in handwritten forms, has raised $35 million in a Series C round of financing led by...

Artificial Intelligence to Help Reduce Insurance Risks: Baidu President

Jan 21 2016 // It was hard to tell whether hope or fear was the predominant sentiment about the future of artificial intelligence, according to a panel discussing the state of the field at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,...

Illinois Department of Insurance Reports ‘Inadvertent Data Release’

Nov 15 2015 // The Illinois Department of Insurance (DOI) reported that it mistakenly allowed the Social Security numbers of some health care providers to be posted publicly.The DOI said it learned on Nov. 9 of an inadvertent data...

Data Call Deadline Approaching for Property Insurers in Georgia

Oct 21 2015 // Personal and commercial property insurers in the State of Georgia have until Oct. 30 to respond to a Data Call from the Georgia Insurance Department.The bulletin for the data call, issued in August, states the information...

Lloyd’s Report Aims to Reduce Dangerous Liability Risk Accumulation

Oct 16 2015 // Lloyd’s has issued a new report, addressing the “accumulations of liability risk,” which indicates that they “have the potential to send shockwaves through the insurance industry and are one of the...

South Carolina Issues Data Call for Insurers Dealing with Storm Claims

Oct 14 2015 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance (SCDOI) has issued a catastrophe claims data call relating to the flood event that hit the state beginning Oct. 1 and its aftermath.In accordance with South Carolina Code of Laws...

New York Health Insurer’s Data Breach Puts 10M Records at Risk

Sep 21 2015 // Upstate New York health insurer Excellus BlueCross BlueShield said on Sept. 10 that its computer systems and those at affiliates had been breached, exposing data from more than 10 million members, in the latest case to...

New York Health Insurer’s Data Breach Puts 10M Records at Risk

Sep 11 2015 // Upstate New York health insurer Excellus BlueCross BlueShield on Wednesday said its computer systems and those at affiliates had been breached, exposing data from more than 10 million members, in the latest case to show...

Florida Insurance Chief Calls on NFIP to Hand Over Its Data

Aug 20 2015 // In his ongoing efforts to foster a competitive private flood insurance market in Florida, state Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, recently requested help from the state’s Office of Insurance Regulation to obtain...

Firms Interested in Driver Data Collected by Auto Insurers

Jul 24 2015 // The restaurants and doughnut shops that consumers pass on their commute would love to predict when they’ll be driving by. Their auto insurer may already know, and could be looking for a way to profit from that...

Generali Acquires MyDrive Solutions, a UK Data Analysis Firm

Jul 24 2015 // Trieste-based Generali Group announced that it has acquired MyDrive Solutions, a UK company that uses data analytics tools to profile driving behavior.MyDrive Solutions, which was founded in 2010, specializes in...

The Age of Big Data and Agencies – Not

Jul 6 2015 // This is the age of big data. The concept is to collect all kinds of data and then use various statistical techniques, usually some sophisticated form of regression analysis, to identify correlations between the data,...