Risk
Cyence’s CEO Sees an Urgent Need to Model Cyber Risk
Property/casualty insurers continue to explore ways to better insure cyber risk. Cyence digs deeper, modeling the financial impact cyber events can cause. Launched a little over two years ago in ...
J&J Will Appeal $1B Verdict in Recent Artificial Hip Implant Trial
Johnson & Johnson will challenge the fairness of a trial that produced a verdict of $1 billion in damages against the company last week over allegations of design flaws in its Pinnacle hip ...
U.S. Regulators Are Missing Commercial Drone Safety Violations: Govt. Report
U.S. aviation regulators approved commercial drone applications so quickly in recent years that they missed safety violations and took few enforcement actions, a government watchdog report concluded. ...Rising Risks Could Cost Global Cities $1.17 Trillion of GDP in 2017: Cambridge Study
The costs of major shocks to the global economy from natural and manmade threats could put at risk $1.17 trillion of the total projected GDP of the world's major cities in 2017, according to the ...
State Farm Loses Hurricane Fraud Case in U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a victory to two whistleblower sisters by upholding a jury verdict that found State Farm defrauded the U.S. government when the insurance company assessed damage ...
Xceedance Opens Operations Center in Poland
Xceedance said its new operations center in Poland is open for business. The property/casualty insurance technology, analytics and consulting services provider said the facility is designed to help ...
Executives On The Move at XL Group, CSAA and Great American
XL Group announced the appointment of a new chief investment officer. CSAA appointed a new chief risk officer. Great American promoted an executive to head its Environmental division. *** XL Group ...
P2P Startup Lemonade Closes $34M in New Financing From General Catalyst, Others
Lemonade nailed down $34 million in new venture financing, a crucial, second round of financing as the peer-to-peer InsurTech startup focuses on expanding and growing sales of its renters and ...