Underwriting
EBI Platform Combines Telematics With CRM and Marketing Tools
A new telematic platform is being marketed to insurance companies worldwide as "the first permanent communication channel between car insurance companies and their customers." The Event-Based ...
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 ...
Towers Watson: Insurers Benefit from Proactive Claims Handling
Proactive claims handling is crucial to an insurer's bottom line, according to the latest Towers Watson survey of 35 property/casualty claims officers. The main operational goals of the U.S. P/C ...
Report: AIG Wants At Least $450M For Luxury South Korean Hotel
AIG Global Real Estate, a unit of American International Group Inc., is seeking at least $450 million from the sale of a luxury hotel in the South Korean capital, people with knowledge of the matter ...
Aon Benfield Places AIG Cover For Massive U.K. Energy Meter Project
Aon Benfield said it has brokered insurance underwritten by AIG that will facilitate the U.K. government's push to install smart energy meter systems around the country by 2020. Specifically, it will ...
Half of U.S. Now Being Hammered By Winter Snow
Here's another reminder of how cold it's been so far this season. Yesterday snow cover across the contiguous 48 states reached 50.4 percent before dropping back to 50.2 today, according to model ...
Carriers Try ‘Holding the Line’ on Property-Cat Renewals: NAPCO
Property-catastrophe insurers have been focused on winning new business, which means new customers are seeing bigger price cuts, according to a market report from a wholesale broker specializing in ...
Pet Insurance Sales Soar Past Accident & Health Cover
Maria Makara didn't hesitate to insure her two new dogs. That's because they're family. Her previous pet, a Yorkshire terrier, died in 2013 after contracting pancreatitis and Cushing's disease. ...