All the headlines from our Data Driven Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 17 2013 // Up and down the Atlantic coast, people are telling horror stories about how long it has taken to get an insurance check for flood damage caused by Superstorm Sandy. Nearly 40 percent are still waiting for the final...
Dec 7 2012 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. says someone attacked part of its computer network and likely stole personal information affecting more than 1.1 million people.The Columbus, Ohio-based company says the Oct. 3 data breach...
Nov 21 2012 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens has confirmed that 28,467 households in the state could be affected by an online security breach involving Nationwide Insurance Co.Hudgens said the company notified him that a...
Aug 28 2012 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. has introduced insurance coverage to help small to mid-size health care organizations manage some of their biggest exposures.ForeFront Portfolio 3.0 for Health Care Organizations offers...
Aug 6 2012 // There is an effort now underway in Washington, D.C., to eliminate the use of consumer credit information by auto insurance companies.Three lawmakers are leading that effort in Congress. On July 13, Reps. Hansen Clarke...
Aug 1 2012 // IDentity Theft 911, an identity management and data risk management service company, is partnering with The Cincinnati Insurance Company to bring data risk solutions to Cincinnati’s commercial insurance...
Jul 24 2012 // Carfax Inc. reported that federal officials have approved its patent applications for its auto insurance underwriting and rating system based on vehicle history attributes.CarFax said it expects the patents to be issued by...
Jul 23 2012 // New York’s top insurance regulator has directed insurers this month to detail payouts and reserves for claims in the 2001 World Trade Center attacks in an effort to prompt settlement of the decade-old federal...
Jul 5 2012 // New York’s top insurance regulator has directed insurers to detail payouts and reserves for claims in the 2001 World Trade Center attacks in an effort to prompt settlement of the decade-old federal case.Benjamin...
Jul 2 2012 // Late last month, the Massachusetts Division of Insurance said it began an examination of executive compensation at insurers domiciled in the state.The regulators said they have sent letters to 88 insurers requesting...
Jun 28 2012 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance is undertaking a detailed examination of executive compensation at insurance carriers domiciled in the state.Commissioner Murphy said his agency initiated the review to gather more...
Jun 18 2012 // In early June, the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics released detailed employment statistics for the month of April.The data shows that P/C insurers added 800 jobs in April, for the total of 526,300...
May 17 2012 // Iranian petrochemical exports have plunged nearly 90 percent in the last two weeks as most maritime firms, including those in Iran, cannot find insurance to transport the cargo due to EU sanctions, according to traders and...
Mar 5 2012 // In many ways, insurance is a battle for information. From marketing to underwriting to claims, the ability to know as much as possible about a potential insured, especially for property risks, is vital.With that in mind,...
Feb 20 2012 // The insurance industry had 5,300 net job gains in December 2011 compared to November 2011, according to the latest industry-specific data published by the federal government this month.The U.S. Labor Department’s...
Feb 7 2012 // EMC Insurance Companies launched a new data compromise and identity recovery product at the start of February.The organization touts this as one of only a few products that offers this kind of coverage. The product was...
Jan 23 2012 // Earlier this month, the U.S. Labor Department published its November 2011 data on detailed insurance industry employment figures. These latest figures show that in November, employment at insurance carriers rose overall,...
Dec 7 2011 // Property/casualty insurers lost 900 jobs overall in October, according to latest government data. But insurers in other segments did better. Life insurer employment was up by 1,400. Employment at medical expense insurers...
Nov 7 2011 // Earlier this year, experts at WallStreet & Technology (wallstreetandtech.com) identified predictive analytics and cloud computing as two of six hot technologies that will transform the insurance industry in 2011 and...
Oct 17 2011 // Nebraska insurance officials can’t decide whether to recommend a state-based health insurance exchange or follow a proposed federal model until they know how much the national plan will cost, Nebraska Department of...