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AIG Ramps Up Analysis Efforts for Insuring Against Cyber Risks
American International Group Inc has ramped up its analysis for insuring against cyber attacks, using a system that scores a company's risk of having a breach along with safeguards it has in place, ...
France’s Atos Boosts Cyber Security Services With $5.06B Gemalto Buy
French technology consulting firm Atos offered to buy Gemalto for 4.3 billion euros ($5.06 billion) on Monday to boost its cyber security services as states and big corporations seek to cope with a ...
Q3 U.S. Commercial Insurance Prices Remain Flat Once Again: Willis Towers Watson
U.S. commercial insurance prices stayed virtually flat in the 2017 third quarter, the ninth straight quarter where this has happened, according to a new Willis Towers Watson survey. Prices averaged ...
Paris Climate Change Pact Lives On Under Macron’s Leadership
French President Emmanuel Macron this week will seek to breathe new life into the fight against global warming and sway debate away from skeptics of the process led by U.S. President Donald Trump. At ...
Kobe Steel Slammed With Lawsuits Over Data Tampering Scandal
Kobe Steel Ltd said on Friday it has been hit with lawsuits over its data tampering scandal and has had two more badges of industrial quality removed, the latest setbacks for the Japanese steelmaker ...
Navigation Apps May be Steering L.A. Drivers Toward Fires
Navigation apps like Alphabet Inc.'s Waze, which can do wonders directing drivers through traffic, backfired for some motorists trying to maneuver around the wildfires that are raging across Southern ...
2018 Prediction: U.S. P/C Industry Will Take Time to Recover From 2017 Catastrophes
Property/casualty insurers in the U.S. will rebound in 2018 from the late-2017 onslaught of hurricanes and wildfires, but it will take a while to return to "significant underwriting profits," Fitch ...
Wildfires Halt L.A. Filming, Threaten Crops, Hammer Major Utility’s Market Value
Wildfires raging across Southern California have shut a major commuter artery in Los Angeles, suspended filming, wiped out more than $3 billion of market value for regional utility Edison ...