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RIMS: Enterprise Risk Management Does Indeed Help Spot Cyber Risks
A whopping 77 percent of risk management professionals credit enterprise risk management with helping them spot cyber risks at their companies. That is one of the major findings from the Risk and ...
Insurers Collaborate to Help Underserved Markets
In January, industry heavyweights from the property/casualty insurance underwriting and brokerage world announced a plan to improve risk protection for underserved markets in developing countries by ...
Building Customer Loyalty: It’s About Emotions, Not Just Fast-Food Delivery Times
"People may forget what you said. People may forget what you did. But they will never forget how you made them feel." Harley Manning cited the words credited to renowned poet Maya Angelou in a ...
EXOR Will Urge PartnerRe Shareholders to Reject AXIS Merger
EXOR lost its bid in a Bermuda court to obtain PartnerRe's non-public ownership details, losing access to information that would help it lobby shareholders directly about its $6.8 billion all-cash ...
Medical, Personnel Data More Valuable Than Credit Data to Cyber Spies
Whoever was behind the latest theft of personal data from U.S. government computers, they appear to be following a new trend set by cybercriminals: targeting increasingly valuable medical records and ...
Fracking Harm to Drinking Risk Not Widespread: EPA Draft Report
Hydraulic fracturing to drill for oil and natural gas has not caused widespread harm to drinking water in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday in a report that also ...
Marsh: P/C Carriers Keeping Up With Soaring Interest in Commercial Drones
Property/casualty insurers have responded positively to the soaring interest in and use of commercial drones, even as global regulators struggle to keep up with the nascent industry, Marsh asserted ...
Guy Carpenter: June 1 Re Renewal Price Decreases Lessened
After two years of reinsurance price decreases averaging 15 percent on U.S. property catastrophe placement, risk-adjusted pricing moderated at the latest June 1 renewals, Guy Carpenter said. "Many ...