Data & Research
U.S. to Unveil Voluntary Guidelines for Corporate Cybersecurity
The U.S. government is expected on Wednesday to release the final version of voluntary standards meant to help U.S. companies in nationally critical industries better protect themselves against cyber ...
Early California Wildfire Season Could Be Unprecedented
California's worst drought in decades is feeding what may become a devastating wildfire season, one that is starting about five months early. Extremely dry conditions have sparked 487 wildfires so ...
Regulatory Compliance at Top of Financial Executives’ Worry List
Financial industry executives are almost as concerned about the growing demands of regulatory compliance as they are with market volatility, according to today's survey of 400 financial companies by ...
P/C Combined 97.6 for 2013; Commercial Outlook Still Negative: A.M. Best
A relatively quiet year for catastrophes helped the U.S. property/casualty industry achieve an underwriting profit for the first time in four years, according to A.M. Best. The industry managed its ...
‘Wal-Mart Effect’ Seen Dampening Crime Rate Drops
Communities across the United States experienced an unprecedented decline in crime in the 1990s. But for counties where Wal-Mart built stores, the decline wasn't nearly as dramatic. "The crime ...
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 ...
Study of Possible Wall Street Broker Conflicts Leaked; Authors Warn Against Quick Judgments
A new academic paper about potential conflict of interest in large retail brokers' routing of limit orders has stirred controversy on Wall Street and caught regulators' attention—even before the ...
January Cold, Snow in U.S. to Cost Insurers $1.6 Billion: Aon
The various winter storms that brought snow and bitter cold to the United States in January took more than 50 lives and are expected to result in direct economic losses of about $3.5 billion and ...