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Why Underwriters Should Require Business Continuity Plans From Insureds
True or False? Companies that identify and develop disaster avoidance, mitigation, response and recovery plans are likely to suffer fewer strategic, financial and operational losses and less adverse ...
Here’s One Way Insurer CIOs Can Prepare For a Digital Transformation
With insurers facing an ever-increasing use of technology in their daily activities, the pressure is on for chief information officers to anticipate both current and future needs – for the ...
Hold on. My Phone Says I’m Having a Heart Attack: Top Tech Trends Revealed
"We're going to see more changes in the next 25 years than we've seen in the last 100," a futurist told a group of insurance professionals at an industry meeting last week. The pronouncement by ...
Advice From a Futurist
If you think the colors of the triangular yield sign on North American roadways are yellow and black, then you might not be ready to lead your organizations into the future. While futurist Jack ...
Industry Disrupters Will Cut Distribution, Dispute Resolution Costs, P/C Execs Say
Property/casualty insurance industry executives peering out into the future aren't singularly focused on capital providers as potential industry disrupters in the years ahead. Brian Duperreault, ...
Cyber Attacks Hit Catalan Govt. Computers During Independence Vote
Catalan government computer systems were attacked by professional-style hackers during the disputed independence vote on Nov. 9, putting basic services at risk, Regional President Artur Mas said. The ...
Sunlight Drives Away the Shadows: The Value of Open Source
In its 20-plus years, catastrophe risk modeling had developed nearly insurmountable barriers to alternative views of risk. Except for the largest companies, insurers and reinsurers have had little ...
New Online Tool Helps Predicts Risk For Deadly Coastal Hurricanes
When a hurricane comes ashore, there are so many dangers: tree-snapping winds, torrential downpours and even tornadoes spawned by the tempest itself. But it's the wall of water that tropical systems ...