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4 Things Small Businesses Can Do to Protect Against Cyber Attacks
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, small businesses have quickly adopted remote working and transitioned to new technologies, such as contactless payments and online ordering. ...
Airbnb Beefing Up Guest Services With Satisfaction Guarantees, AirCover Protection
Airbnb Inc. on Wednesday revealed what it's calling its "biggest change in a decade." Beyond modifications to its user interface and nifty new bells and whistles, it's also addressing one of the ...
How Telematics-Driven Context Can Help Price Insurance and Reduce Auto Crash Risk
Insurance pricing is an imperfect process. It's been gradually refined over countless iterations of product revisions through hundreds of thousands of regulatory filings. Insurers have used different ...
Claims Frequency Up for 2021, but Workers Comp Profitability ‘Unprecedented’
For the first time in more than a decade, workers compensation claims frequency, outside of COVID-19 illness claims, increased in the United States last year. But not to worry, the trend won't last, ...
D&O Market Has Most Profitable Year Since 2014, but It May Be an Anomaly
The directors and officers insurance marketplace in 2021 enjoyed its most profitable year since 2014, but results have to be "viewed as a possible aberration rather than the start of a trend," ...
Pie Insurance Assesses Risks of Iconic TV, Movie Workplaces in Marketing Campaign
InsurTech Pie Insurance recently launched a new marketing campaign featuring safety assessments of iconic workplaces from seven industries throughout TV and movie history. The campaign, launched on ...
Russia-Ukraine a ‘Complex’ Situation for Insurance Industry: AIG CEO Zaffino
AIG CEO Peter Zaffino during the company's most recent earnings call provided analysts with some insight regarding insurance implications from Russia's invasion of Ukraine. "We have not seen a ...
Rapid Cyber Premium Growth by Fairfax, Tokio Marine Increased Share of Market
The top cyber insurance carriers in 2021 shifted to include Fairfax Financial Holdings and Tokio Marine U.S. as the marketplace grew 74 percent to over $4.8 billion, according to a report from Fitch ...