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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 ...
Nonstandard Auto Insurance Market Is Not for Everybody
The nonstandard auto market is not for every carrier or agency. Since 2007, carriers writing nonstandard auto policies have reported deteriorating operating performance, and many have struggled to ...
Security Breaches Reveal Airport Vulnerabilities
Several hundred times over the last decade, intruders have hopped fences, slipped past guardhouses, crashed their cars through gates or otherwise breached perimeter security at the nation's busiest ...
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 ...
1,000-Plus Lawsuits Allege Pfizer Knew Zoloft Posed Birth Defect Risk
Pfizer Inc. researchers concluded last year that pregnant women taking Zoloft risked having babies with heart defects, according to evidence made public by a lawyer at the first trial of more than ...
XL Unveils Sharia Compliant Equine Cover Through Lloyd’s of London
XL Group has rolled out what it bills as the first Shariah compliant product available through Lloyd's of London – cover for horses. Offered with Cobalt Underwriting (a specialist Shariah compliant ...
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. ...
Amazon Drones: The Costs and The Benefits
Amazon.com Inc.'s proposed use of drones could drive down the cost to deliver small packages crosstown to about $1— a fraction of existing same-day delivery options, according to a study by a ...