Claims & Reserving
Companies Without Cyber Cover Relying on Kidnap Insurance to Recoup Ransomware Losses
Companies without cyber insurance are dusting off policies covering kidnap, ransom and extortion in the world's political hotspots to recoup losses caused by ransomware viruses such as "WannaCry," ...
Travelers Is Training Dozens of Its Claims Professionals to Operate Drones
Travelers' Claim University, founded in 2007, is working to change the way its claims professionals do business through the use of drones to assist in property inspection and claims analysis. The ...
Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Zurich Insurance With Personal Injury Claims
Zurich Insurance is deploying artificial intelligence in deciding personal injury claims after trials cut the processing time from an hour to just seconds, its chairman said. "We recently introduced ...
Post-WannaCry Risks: Lawsuits Over Lax Cyber Attack Protection
Businesses that failed to update Microsoft Windows-based computer systems that were hit by a massive cyber attack over the weekend could be sued over their lax cyber security, but Microsoft Corp. ...
Demand Should Soar for Cyber Insurance in Wake of WannaCry Attacks
Demand for cyber insurance is likely to soar in the wake of the WannaCry ransomware attacks that affected more than 300,000 computers in more than 150 countries around the world since May 12, Fitch ...
Allianz, Praedicat Partner on Improving Catastrophe Liability Risk Predictions
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS), the corporate insurance unit of Allianz SE, is working with Praedicat, the Los Angeles-based InsurTech analytics firm, to better predict key ...
Former AIG CEO Greenberg Loses Court Appeal Over 2008 Bailout Ruling
A federal appeals court threw out a ruling that the U.S. government illegally bailed out insurer American International Group Inc during the 2008 financial crisis, in a defeat for former chief ...
J&J Will Appeal $110M Talc Powder Cancer-Link Verdict
Johnson & Johnson was ordered by a St. Louis jury to pay more than $110 million to a Virginia woman who blamed her ovarian cancer on the company's talcum products. Imerys Talc America, which ...