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Best Withdraws ‘Public Data’ Ratings on UK Insurance Companies

Jul 13 2009 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has “withdrawn all public data (pd) ratings on UK insurance companies. Best last reveiwed the listed companies in December 2007. The financial strength ratings (FSR) and issuer credit...

Data Sharing from Leads360 Improves Insurance Lead Quality

Jul 10 2009 // AgentInsider®, InsuranceAgents.com, QuoteWizard & Others to ParticipateNew Leads360 Lead Performance Intelligence™ Analytics Gives Insurance Lead Buyers and Sellers Unmatched Visibility into Lead Quality...

Insurer Complaint Data Released by Missouri Insurance Department

Jun 16 2009 // The Missouri Department of Insurance’s annual complaint index report has been posted at the department’s Web site, insurance.mo.gov, under the Information About Insurers section. Users can search more than...

Insurers Balk at FTC Order for Consumer Data in Credit Score Probe

Dec 23 2008 // The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) decision to order insurance companies to provide a wide array of consumers’ personal information in connection with a study of credit-based insurance scores and homeowners...

Ohio Health Insurer Investigates Missing Data on Retirees

Oct 24 2008 // Eleven computer disks containing personal information on thousands of Ohio retirees are missing and are believed to be somewhere in the US Postal Service, Medical Mutual of Ohio recently announced.The disks contain member...

Texas Issues Data Call to Insurers in Hurricane Ike’s Aftermath

Sep 23 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) is conducting a mandatory data call for certain information related to claims in the counties of Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Chambers, Cherokee, Fort Bend, Galveston, Gregg,...

Conn. Case over Disclosure of Insurance Agency Data to Continue

Sep 4 2008 // The Connecticut Supreme Court has declined to rule on a Florida company’s efforts to block state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal from disclosing information he obtained while investigating the insurance...

Millbrook, Valen Become P/C Insurance Data, Predictive Analytics Partners

Aug 1 2008 // Millbrook Inc., a provider of property/casualty insurance business intelligence and data services, and Valen, predictive analytics experts, have partnered to provide predictive analytics for the property/casualty insurance...

DarwinPro Insurance Covers Firms’ Data Privacy, Network Security Liability

Jul 21 2008 // Connecticut-based Darwin Professional Underwriters, Inc. is offering insurance coverage for health care organizations, financial institutions, and other businesses that utilize data as part of their daily business...

Montana’s Insurance Regulator Wants to Open Insurer Data

Jun 2 2008 // Montana’s insurance regulator John Morrison, said he wants to give consumers information on the conduct of insurance companies.Morrison said consumers could check to see how often a company cancels policies, delays...

Better Data Needed to Fight Cargo Thefts, Say Insurers, Law Enforcement

Apr 17 2008 // It’s like “Gone in 60 Seconds” with tractor trailers.Thieves steal billions of dollars of electronics, medicine, vehicles and other items from U.S. businesses each year by targeting trucks and other cargo...

InsuranceLeadz.com Verifies Customer Data Through New LeadReady™ System

Jan 29 2008 // Columbus, OH, Jan 29 2008 – InsuranceLeadz.com, Inc. has just launched a new comprehensive lead verification service called LeadReady™.LeadReady™ allows InsuranceLeadz.com to instantly review and check every lead...

AI Risk’s LexExpress Delivers Excess Auto Liability for Truckers

Jan 22 2008 // AI Risk Specialists Insurance, Inc., a brokerage subsidiary of American International Group, Inc., has unveiled LexExpress, excess auto liability insurance for small to medium sized fleets in the trucking industry.It is...

Ohio Officials Alert Public about Data Breach by Hartford Insurance

Oct 31 2007 // Hartford Life Insurance has misplaced three backup tapes containing sensitive personal information on an unknown number of Ohio consumers, state insurance regulators said.The company says the data security breach was...

South Carolina Insurance Department Issues Data Call

Oct 9 2007 // In order to draw new carriers into South Carolina’s exposed coastal areas the Department of Insurance in coordination with the Wind and Hail Underwriting Association (Wind Pool) expanded coverage availability this...

ISO Data Named Statistical Agent for Med Mal Insurance in Okla.

Sep 27 2007 // Oklahoma Commissioner of Insurance Kim Holland has designated ISO Data Inc. (ISO) as the statistical agent for medical malpractice insurance in her state, according to the commissioner’s amended Bulletin No. PC...

By Marty Ellingsworth

Sep 24 2007 // The use of predictive analytics is truly enhancing speed and customer experience at the service delivery points in the value chain. Understanding behavioral patterns enables insurers to optimize their risk evaluation,...

Predictive Analytics 2.0

Sep 24 2007 // Maximizing the science and art of business analysis with the next wave of dataIt is difficult to overstate the strides in efficiency being made by the insurance industry as a result of the effectiveness of predictive...

New England Broker Telamon Adds Insurance for Electronic Data

Jul 26 2007 // New England insurance broker Telamon Insurance & Financial Network is going beyond typical insurance offerings by partnering with a firm to give its business clients insurance for their electronic data.The broker is...

FBI data mining targets include insurance fraud suspects

Jul 23 2007 // The FBI is gathering and sorting information about Americans to help search for potential terrorists, insurance cheats and crooked pharmacists, according to a government report.Records about identity thefts, real estate...