CTO / Technology
Nationwide: Small Business Owners Lack Cyber Prep Plans
Small business owners in the United States are a wide, untapped customer base for property/casualty insurers developing coverage to address the escalating costs of cyber attacks. A recent ...
New Verisk Tool Reveals IDs Phantom Garagers, Confirms Mileage
Auto insurance companies now have a tool that lets them verify the garaging address of a vehicle, confirm the driver's commuting mileage and obtain loss costs and premium differentials for the ...
Allianz Q3 Profit Drops 15% After Plunge in P/C, Asset Management Earnings
Allianz SE, Europe's biggest insurer, said third-quarter profit dropped 15 percent as earnings at its property and casualty and asset management units declined. Net income fell to 1.36 billion euros ...
Novarica: U.S. Small Commercial Insurance Market Slowly Warming to Online Sales
Few carriers in the U.S. small commercial insurance market are relying on direct online sales right now. But the number is growing, and it could become quite large within the next five years, ...
PCI Conference Report: Cyber, Property Risks Not So Separate, CTO Says
The property/casualty insurance industry must change its approach to cyber security and update its coverage approach to help minimize risks, FireEye Inc. Chief Technology Officer Grady Summers said. ...
KPMG: Driverless Cars Could Drastically Reduce U.S. Personal Auto Insurance Sector
The U.S. personal auto insurance sector could shrink by 60 percent within 25 years as autonomous vehicles catch on, vehicles become safer and both trends reduce the number of accidents, KPMG said in ...
UPDATED: Duperreault Reveals Cooperative Millennial Recruiting Effort at PCI Conference
For a while now, Hamilton Insurance Group CEO Brian Duperreault has called for property/casualty insurers to embrace technology and find ways to recruit millennials to help fully unlock its ...
Willis Re Aims to Fill Catastrophe Model Gaps
Willis Re, the reinsurance division of Willis Group Holdings plc, is aiming to enhance its clients' understanding of catastrophe risk with its own views of both modeled and unmodeled risks, the ...