Underwriting
Netflix’s House of Cards and Other Big Data Case Studies
How did program developers at Netflix know that viewers of the BBC television series "House of Cards" also enjoyed movies starring Kevin Spacey and directed by David Finch? They analyzed big data to ...
Praedicat Launches Cloud-based Casualty Model; Mines Data from Published Science
Praedicat, the world's first liability catastrophe modeling company, announced the launch of its flagship software product, CoMeta on Tuesday. CoMeta delivers commercially-relevant analytics for ...
‘The Mask’ Revealed; Researchers Find Cyber Spies Targeting Govt. Agencies, Energy Cos .
A computer security software firm has uncovered what it calls the first cyber espionage campaign believed to be started by a Spanish-speaking country, targeting government agencies, energy companies ...
P/C Executive Views: Data Security Strategies and Cyber Insurance Sales
As cyber attackers continue to menace businesses in all industry sectors, property/casualty insurers are working to provide network security and privacy coverage. But how are the insurers managing ...
Towers Watson Releases UBI Auto Insurance Model
Towers Watson has launched DriveAbility 2.0 Score, an analytical scoring model designed for the automobile insurance industry. DriveAbility 2.0 Score includes a GPS version with location-specific ...
Nearly One-Quarter of Insurance Consumers Would Buy Cover from Amazon, Google: Accenture
Two-thirds (67 percent) of insurance customers would consider purchasing insurance products from organizations other than insurers, including 23 percent who would consider buying from online service ...
Chubb Sharing Economy Poll: Owners More Willing to Rent Others’ Homes than Share Theirs
Potential risks ranging from bedbugs to theft would keep one-in-five Americans from renting their homes, but nearly one-third say they would rent someone else's home for a vacation Thirty-six percent ...
Talks Break Off in Panama Canal Contract Dispute
The Panama Canal Authority (PCA) has broken off talks with a Spanish-led building consortium in a dispute over $1.6 billion in cost overruns during work to expand one of the world's most important ...