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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 ...
What Should Carrier Execs, Directors Ask About Terror Risk?
As carrier executives and members of carrier boards work to get more comfortable with the risks their property/casualty insurance enterprises are taking on, one risk they will likely want to ...
Facebook Admits Year-Long Data Breach Exposed 6 Million Users
Facebook Inc. has inadvertently exposed 6 million users' phone numbers and email addresses to unauthorized viewers over the past year, the world's largest social networking company disclosed late ...
Towers Watson Looks Beyond Jihadi Terrorism with New Risk Model
If you ask Towers Watson's Chris Holt, one of the architects of a new terror model, what he fears when he goes to work each morning, the former British Army bomb-disposal officer will respond ...
Mini Flash Crashes Caused By Sloppiness, Not A Broken Market: SEC
Unexplained rapid price drops in single stocks have generally been triggered by human error, not nefarious trading activity or high-speed trading algorithms gone wild, an official at the U.S. ...