Technology/Science
Allianz: Business Interruption Remains Huge Risk; Cyber Gaining Fast
Business interruption is the top concern of risk managers heading into 2016 for the fourth year in a row, but cyber is a fast-growing corporate worry, according to a new report from Allianz Global ...
Auto Liability Will Buck Price Declines, and Other Marsh 2016 Predictions
Pricing may be plunging across much of the U.S. casualty market in 2016, but not for auto liability. Higher pricing and reduced capacity will likely hit automotive liability over the next year, ...
Nuclear Liability Insurance is Sticking Point in Westinghouse India Reactor Deal
Toshiba Corp's Westinghouse Electric hopes to clinch a deal to build six nuclear reactors in India by end-March, its CEO said, in time for a possible visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ...
Self-Driving Car Rollout Will Accelerate Under New U.S. Government Plan
Self-driving cars will get closer to appearing on American roads under a U.S. Transportation Department plan to speed their rollout. Regulators will allow automakers that can demonstrate they have a ...
RMS CEO Shah Pledges 2016 Cloud-Based Cat Modeling Roll-out
RMS, after months of additional fine-tuning and ironing out kinks, is ready to roll out cloud-based catastrophe risk management system RMS(one) through 2016, co-founder and CEO Hemant Shah said on ...
A.M. Best Separates Ratings Services from Publications in Restructuring Move
A.M. Best has restructured its operations to separate its rating and research services from its publications and other information products, attributing the action to increased regulation of credit ...
Crash Rates Lower for Driverless Cars
Crash rates for self-driving cars are lower than the national crash rate of conventional cars, according to a new report out of Virginia Tech Transportation Institute that was commissioned by ...
Google Chairman Says Standards Needed to Unlock Promise of Artificial Intelligence
Google's chairman thinks artificial intelligence will let scientists solve some of the world's "hard problems," like population growth, climate change, human development, and education. Rapid ...