Data & Research
Data on Health Data Breaches Published
Between 2010 and 2013, data breaches of protected health information reported by HIPAA-covered entities increased and involved approximately 29 million records, with most data breaches resulting from ...
U.S. Insured Property Values Reach New Heights and Cluster in Coastal Regions
U.S insured property values as of 2014 exceed $90 trillion, but the bulk of that is increasingly concentrated in vulnerable coastal areas. With that in mind, new risk metrics could better help ...
Employee Snafus a Big Factor in Cyber Attacks, Verizon and Symantec Find
When a cyber security breach hits the news, those most closely involved often have incentive to play up the sophistication of the attack. If hackers are portrayed as well-funded geniuses, victims ...
Standard & Poor’s: Insurance Industry Growth Isn’t Coming Easy
Global insurers are generating solid growth despite dealing with sluggish economies, historically low interest rates and new regulatory restrictions, Standard & Poor's concluded in a new report. ...
How the P/C Insurance Industry Can Increase Ethical Behavior
Although 90 percent of property/casualty insurance industry representatives say their industry is largely an ethical one, they believe that the public doesn't see the same picture. And ethics in the ...
Cool Atlantic Could Mean Very Quiet Hurricane Season: CSU Forecast
The Atlantic Ocean may have one of its quietest hurricane seasons in decades because of cooler water in the Atlantic and an El Nino in the Pacific, Colorado State University forecasters said. William ...
Aon Benfield: Severe Weather Returned With a Vengeance in March
In March, the most severe weather events carried names like Mike, Niklas and Pam. Also, the United States began to see a return to extreme springtime weather after an unusually slow start to the ...
AXA Strategic Ventures Invests in a French ‘Big Data’ Startup
AXA Strategic Ventures has made a $1 million investment in the French tech startup company Evercontact, a cloud service that extracts contact information in emails and shares and updates them ...