International
Is Uber an App or Transport Company? EU Judges to Decide
Fifteen judges at the European Union's top court are trying to decide, once and for all, whether Uber Technologies Inc. is an app or a transport company. The question has long vexed regulators and ...
Actuaries Climate Index, RMS Peru Earthquake Model Ready for Market
RMS and a group of actuarial societies each rolled out new products designed to respectively help measure risks related to earthquake and weather events. In RMS's case, the catastrophe modeling firm ...
London Insurers Outline Their Post-Brexit Market Needs Ahead of Negotiations
Companies operating in the London insurance market are zeroing in on four priorities for the upcoming Brexit negotiations. The objectives outline arrangements that will help the City of London ...
Cyber Risk Management Essential Even Though Security Can’t Be Foolproof
No company is fully secure from cyber breaches, no matter how sophisticated its cyber defense mechanisms, which is why every company should develop a cyber risk management strategy, according Marsh ...
IoT May Be Factor in Soaring Cyber Attacks on Chinese Firms
Cyber attacks on Chinese companies have soared in the past two years, according to a survey, with new technologies that connect household items to the internet and allow them to receive and send data ...
Emerging Markets to Drive Insurance Sector Growth in 2017: Swiss Re
The global economy is expected to grow moderately over the next two years, supporting continued growth in insurance premium volumes, according to a recent Swiss Re report. Growth in global non-life ...
Verisk Acquires Data/Analytics Firm MarketStance for Undisclosed Price
Verisk Analytics disclosed it has snatched up MarketStance, a well-regarded firm that provides property/casualty insurance companies, brokers and agents market intelligence data and analytics. ...
S&P Prediction: InsurTech Will Become Part of Traditional Insurance Landscape
InsurTech has a complementary place in the traditional insurance world, despite remaining uncertainty in the industry about how it will function on a wide scale, Standard & Poor's said in a new ...