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Electronic Aggression: Uncovering Expensive Coverage Gaps
It used to be bullies were restricted to the playground—but not anymore. Cyberbullying is at epidemic levels. Facebook, YouTube and other social media have become platforms for bullying, and ...
Are Insurers Finally Ready To Embrace Intellectual Property Insurance?
The small yet complicated niche of patent and intellectual property insurance has seen more interest lately as patent claims rise and companies look to protect their ideas or company trade secrets ...
The Curious Case Of Bad Math & Why It Does Not Matter
I have recently been reminded of some of the nonsensical insurance idiosyncrasies that veterans of the industry take for granted. Several of these involve math—and bad math in particular. 1. ...
Keeping Up With Emerging Risks Remains A Struggle For P/C Carriers
The property/casualty insurance industry depends on lots of data to develop products and price them, making the coverage of new risks a significant challenge for underwriters, a London specialist ...
Employee Personality Motivates Job Behavior, Not Carrots & Sticks: Univ. Study
Carrots and sticks have long been the favored tool for business managers looking to motivate their workers, whether it's to encourage with the promise of a raise, or to threaten with firing. But a ...
RMS(one) Explained
When RMS developed its recently unveiled software platform RMS(one), the catastrophe modeling firm had a wide range of potential users in mind—many of whom are not accustomed to tinkering around ...
Form F, ORSA Rules Open New Windows For Insurance Regulators
Executives of property/casualty insurers are getting comfortable with the idea that they have to file Enterprise Risk Reports and Own Risk and Solvency Assessments (ORSA) with U.S. insurance ...
What About Transparency?
Provisions protecting proprietary strategic information are necessary as insurance groups start to file Enterprise Risk Reports in 2014, according to property/casualty insurance carrier ...