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Predictive Analytics: Bringing Price Elasticity Concepts to P/C Insurance
The concept of price elasticity of demand has not received enough attention in the world of property/casualty insurance. Regulatory hurdles, a tradition of cost-plus pricing and maybe even an ...Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Names New Chief Information Officer
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance announced Tuesday that it has named James O. Roser as chief information officer. Roser has an extensive record of leadership in the business technology arena, ...U.S. Firms Seen as Targets of Syrian Cyber Attacks
The U.S. is planning for a possible wave of computer attacks against companies by hackers connected to Syria or Iran in retaliation for any military strike against the government of Bashar al-Assad, ...
United Insurance Holdings Corp. Appoints Andrew Swenson as VP & CIO
United Insurance Holdings Corp. (UPC Insurance) announced the appointment of Andrew Swenson as vice president and chief information officer on Tuesday. In this newly created position, Swenson will be ...
UBI Awareness Up But Still Only 36%, Survey Finds
A survey of more than 2,000 consumers published last week reveals that awareness of usage-based insurance has tripled in the last three years. But the survey figures published by LexisNexis Risk ...
Allianz Mulls Carbon Credit Expansion After Indonesia Investment
Allianz SE, Europe's largest insurer, is considering expanding its business of buying carbon emission credits after getting enough of the certificates from a project in Indonesia to help offset its ...
EQECAT Releases RQE Version 14
On Monday, EQECAT announced the release of version 14 of its catastrophe risk modeling platform RQE (Risk Quantification & Engineering), with updates to several country/peril models in addition ...
LinkedIn, Twitter Lead in Slow Race for CEOs’ Social Media Attention
CEOs at Fortune 500 companies have been slow to embrace social media, but their participation on two social media platforms in particular, Twitter and LinkedIn, is growing. A study sponsored by Domo ...