Strategy
Insurers Envision Slight IT Spending Hikes for 2015: Novarica
Most insurers only plan modest increases in their IT budgets in 2015. And while other industries are spending more and more in emerging tech areas such as mobile insurance, big data and the cloud, ...
FTC Review Delays Verisk’s $650M EagleView Deal
Verisk Analytics Inc., the supplier of data to insurers and banks, said its planned $650 million takeover of EagleView Technology Corp. has been delayed amid a review by antitrust regulators. The ...
Customer Experience, Stock Performance Linked: Watermark Consulting
Public companies ranked poorly by customers also saw their stock market values decline over the past seven years while leaders in customer experience soared past the S&P 500, a consulting firm ...
Chubb Eyes Biorenewable and Industrial Biotech Opportunities
The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies is rolling out new insurance products and risk-management programs for both biorenewable and industrial biotechnology outfits. New Jersey-based Chub defines ...
Duperreault, Reardon Lead Hamilton Re Into the ‘Data Analytics’ Future
If you're going to successfully operate a relatively new reinsurance company in these troubled times, you better know what you're doing. Fortunately, Bermuda-based Hamilton Re would seem to pass ...
P/C Mutuals Worry Over Technology, Regulation and Capital: Conning
Property/casualty mutual insurance companies, facing stiff competition from their stock insurer rivals, are wary about the onslaught of technology, regulation and new sources of capital, Conning, ...
NAMIC Conference: Gen Re’s Kingdollar Sounds Alarm About Emerging Risks
Cyber attacks, nanotechnology, 3D printing, and natural gas drilling aren't necessarily on the minds of your typical property/casualty mutual insurer. But Charlie Kingdollar said that these and many ...
Catalina Agrees to Acquire Danielson Indemnity
Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Danielson Indemnity Company, the holding company of National American Insurance Company of California and Danielson ...