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How Carriers, Agents Can Adapt As Small Commercial Buyers Move Online
About 52 percent of America's small business insurance customers say they are ready to complete their commercial insurance purchasing online without the aid of an agent or broker. That's according to ...
AIR Releases Japan Earthquake Model Update; Reflects Tohoku Insights
Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide announced Monday that it has updated its Earthquake Model for Japan to include insights gained from the Great Tohoku earthquake of March 2011. The Tohoku event ...
Changing the Way Businesses Defend Against Cyber Attacks
Hackers have attacked news organizations, social media sites, major corporations and government agencies, accessing private documents and personal information. Still most organizations do not ...Accenture Cuts Full-Year Outlook As Consulting Slows Further
Outsourcing and consulting services provider Accenture Plc cut its full-year outlook last week, citing a pullback in spending by its consulting business clients. Clients are slowing the pace and ...
Progressive, USAA Enter License Agreement for Usage-Based Insurance
Progressive Insurance announced Friday that it is entering into a licensing agreement with United Services Automobile Association for intellectual property related to usage-based car insurance ...
Google Vindicated By EU Court Opinion On Search Results
Google must respect EU privacy law but is not obliged to delete sensitive information from its search index, an adviser to the highest European Union court said, in a case that tests whether people ...Google Receives U.K. Ultimatum To Remove Street View Data
Google Inc., operator of the world's largest Internet search engine, was given 35 days by the U.K.'s data protection watchdog to remove wireless-network data collected by its cars for its Street View ...
Is Cloud Computing Critical To Carrier Management?
Cloud computing in insurance is inevitable. There are many projections about the growth of cloud computing services revenue that support this, but the best predictor of the inevitability of cloud is ...