Technology/Science
Extreme Weather Makes Weather Trackers Valuable to Insurers, Banks, Commodity Traders
Every uptick in wind speed along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline is of enormous interest to Mike Eilts. The senior vice president for weather at DTN, a Minnesota-based analytics firm, knows that an ...
The Latest Launches From Chubb and Nationwide
Chubb has enhanced its global digital platform with an eye on better serving its multinational clients and brokers. Nationwide's digital insurance platform designed for small business clients has ...
Marsh, Insurers Debut Program to Help Firms Pick Best Cybersecurity Products
What the insurance industry has done for auto and building safety products, insurance broker Marsh wants to extend to cybersecurity products. That is, recommend the cybersecurity products that are ...
Hannover Re Debuts Match-Making Service for InsurTechs and Insurers
Insurtech companies across the globe have created an abundance of innovative solutions and services that span the insurance value chain. However, the challenge for both insurers and insurtechs is how ...
Sayata Labs Raises $6.5M for Cyber Risk Assessment Product; AXA Is Early Partner
Sayata Labs has nailed down $6.5 million in seed funding to pursue development of its cyber risk assessment product designed for insurers to use with small and medium-sized businesses. The Tel ...
Ransomware Demands Soar Along With Cyber Claim Costs: NAS Report
Cybercrime claims by policyholders outside the healthcare sector nearly doubled in 2018, led by financial fraud, often phishing schemes that lead to payments or wire transfers to criminals posing as ...
Why We Should Train Drivers Using Cars With Autonomous Features
Should drivers using vehicles with autonomous features be trained on those features before they get behind the wheel? A new paper, "What Do We Tell the Drivers? Toward Minimum Driver Training ...
Why Science Can’t Prove Roundup Weed Killer Causes Cancer: Opinion
Scientists can't, for the most part, prove that a given product caused a particular person to get cancer— not the way you can prove, say, that a car with faulty brakes caused a fatal crash. And so ...