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The Tech Broker
Insurers aren't the only entities finding opportunity in a technology-driven market. Elizabeth Sullivan, vice president at EG Bowman, a New York-based commercial and personal lines insurance broker, ...
The New Insurance Marketing Playground
When Marissa Buckley asked her focus group their general thoughts regarding shopping for homeowners insurance, the responses were brutally honest. "I'd rather stick a needle in my eye" and "I'd ...
Former EQECAT President Keogh Now at Ultimate Risk Solutions, LLC
Bill Keogh, who left EQECAT last year to join TigerRisk Partners, has now left the reinsurance brokerage to become chief executive officer of Ultimate Risk Solutions, LLC. Ultimate Risk Solutions is ...
Tech and Medical Device Convergence Exposes New World of Risks
When the acclaimed television drama series "Homeland" climaxed with a devious plot by terrorists to kill America's vice president by hacking into his electronic pacemaker, critics mocked the ...
Next Generation Cat Modeling: Multimodel, Open Source or Open Platform—What’s the Difference?
For the past two decades, insurers and reinsurers have licensed catastrophe models from AIR, RMS and EQECAT, and each vendor model came with its own front and back end to handle the model input and ...
RMS’ Exceedance 2014 Conference Kicks Off April 14 in D.C.
Newark, Calif.catastrophe-risk management firm RMS announced that its Exceedance 2014 event will take place next week in Washington, D.C., with keynote speakers that include the first chief ...
Instagram, Crowdsourcing and the New Risks of Emerging Technology
At its peak in 1996, Kodak—then the world's largest camera maker and photo film supplier—had revenues in excess of $16 billion and employed more than 145,000 people. But after 130 years in ...
‘Yes Men’ Are Killing Corporate Projects: Study
Misreporting of project statuses, at all levels of the company, is often to blame for corporate projects failing or ballooning in cost, according to a new study published in MIT's Sloan Management ...