Data & Research
Want Better Results? Learn to Say ‘Not Now, I’m Busy’
Modern office workers are expected to multitask regularly, often juggling multiple projects and priorities over the course of a day. Studies have shown that the typical employee in an office ...
Brains of High Stock Market Earners Have Built-In Crash Detectors
If you're not getting rich in the stock market, it may be because you're brain just isn't wired like Warren Buffett's—or that of any other successful investor who has a built-in detector for ...
Eight New Companies Join Ward’s Annual Top 50 P/C Ranking
Eight new nominees join Ward Group's 2014 roundup of the 50 top performing property/casualty insurers. The recently released analysis crowns the best performers out of more than 3,000 companies in ...
AIR Worldwide Ups Cat Modeling Competition With Touchstone 2.0
Eighteen months after AIR Worldwide launched its Touchstone catastrophe modeling platform, the Boston company is rolling out version 2.0. Touchstone 2.0 includes a number of tweaks and advances to ...
Insurance.com Survey: What Is Online Comparison Shopping Worth?
Bargain hunting for car insurance can save consumers $54 per minute, according to a new survey from Insurance.com. On a savings-per-minute basis, hunting for a bargain on car insurance outranks ...
70% of Critical Infrastructure Providers Have Been Breached: Survey
According to new research from Unisys Corporation, nearly 70 percent of companies responsible for critical infrastructure have reported at least one security breach in the past 12 months. The survey ...
Low 1st Half Cat Impact: Top Asia, U.S. Losses Have Climate Link: Munich Re
Insured losses in the first half of 2014 were $17 billion, considerably below the $25 billion average over the past 10 years, according to Munich Re's 2014 Half-Year Natural Catastrophe Review. ...
Swiss Re Sees Emerging Risks in Smart Cities and Rubber Tree Plants
Property/casualty and other insurers face a number of new emerging risks, and they're not necessarily what, or where, you'd think. Technological issues relating to smart cities, plant pathogens that ...