All the headlines from our InsurTech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 22 2008 // Motivated by mounting medical costs, lawmakers and executives are urging doctors to embrace a seemingly simple way to save billions of dollars a year: prescribe medications online.Officials in the public and private...
Feb 5 2008 // A new study has found that the financial services, technology and life sciences industries face the highest premiums for directors and officers liability insurance, with the lowest premiums found in energy and...
Jan 27 2008 // Managing insurance cycles to maintain profitability is a tricky proposition. Higher premiums produced by hard markets provide more income, but it may be difficult to find coverage for troublesome risks. Plus, customers are...
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...
Jan 13 2008 // Managing insurance cycles to maintain profitability is a tricky proposition. Higher premiums produced by hard markets provide more income, but it may be difficult to find coverage for troublesome risks. Plus, customers are...
Dec 2 2007 // A high-tech helmet invented by a New Hampshire company is helping football teams and the military learn more about head injuries.The helmet and sensors created by research-and-development company Simbex LLC in Lebanon,...
Nov 16 2007 // Fiserv Inc., a provider of information technology services to the financial industry, announced its President and CEO Jeffery Yabuki has been awarded the top honor in the Innovator Award of 2007 from Bank Technology News,...
Nov 6 2007 // The technology planned for an enhanced drivers’ license system that will allow Vermonters to return to the United States from Canada without a passport is insecure and a threat to privacy, according to some computer...
Oct 8 2007 // New report urges CEOs to take action now to ensure continuity of their businesses should a meltdown occurA major disruption to the Internet would not only be detrimental to businesses, public institutions and citizens, but...
Oct 8 2007 // Major Internet disruption would cost $250 billion in economic damagesNew report urges CEOs to take action now to ensure continuity of their businesses should a meltdown occur A major disruption to the Internet would not...
Sep 25 2007 // A major disruption to the Internet would not only be detrimental to businesses, public institutions and citizens, but would also cost the global economy an estimated $250 billion, according to a report released by the...
Aug 21 2007 // A fire on a railroad track crossing the Ohio River left Kentucky and Illinois firefighters with a conundrum.They were surrounded by water, but it wasn’t close enough to the flaming crossties on the Canadian National...
May 31 2007 // Appleton-Wis.-based SECURA Insurance recently named Bob Van Beek vice president-Agency Automation. Previously, Van Beek served the company as director-Agency Automation.With his new title, Van Beek continues to lead the...
May 18 2007 // Financial executives at the world’s largest companies expect the severity of their most prevalent business risks to remain constant or intensify through 2009, according to the “Managing Business Risk Through...
May 16 2007 // James A. Sweeney, Jr. has been appointed vice president, Liberty Mutual Agency Markets, and manager, Systems Development Planning and Management for this Liberty Mutual Group strategic business unit. Sweeney will work with...
Apr 26 2007 // Engineers in Jefferson Parish, La., said recent tests show flood pumps can be turned on automatically by workers holed up in nearby safe rooms during major hurricanes.When a major hurricane threatens the parish, pump...
Apr 12 2007 // Darwin Professional Underwriters Inc., a specialty insurance company and provider of technology liability insurance coverage, has developed an online calculator that allows companies to estimate their financial risk from...
Mar 28 2007 // Austin, Texas-based The National Alliance Research Academy announced it has published a new study, The Paperless Agency: Transformation through Innovation, which focuses on front-end scanning and shows how to use this...
Mar 26 2007 // Information technology companies may explore the new frontier everyday, but do they know where their exposures lie? Will they be ready for the next big liability risk close encounter?“Owners and or creators of IT...
Mar 26 2007 // Information technology companies may explore the new frontier everyday, but do they know where their exposures lie? Will they be ready for the next big liability risk close encounter?“Owners and or creators of IT...