Technology/Science
Willis Beefs Up Cyber Risk Practice With Marsh, Wells Fargo and ACE USA Hires
Willis is bringing on executives from Marsh, Wells Fargo Insurance Services and ACE USA to help beef up its cyber risk management consulting business. Specifically, the new hires will become part of ...
Insurance Outsourcer Patriot National Acquires InsureLinx
Patriot National Inc., a national provider of outsourcing solutions to the insurance industry, has acquired Fla.-based InsureLinx, a provider of technology services for workers compensation ...
Steering Wheels, Brakes Gone From Driverless Cars: Google’s Cerf
When Google started reporting accident statistics for its driverless cars in May, the technology giant learned something important that it has incorporated in the second iteration of its vehicles, ...
Willis: IT Costs Trump Cyber Concerns For Financial Services Firms
Rising costs for information technology infrastructure pose greater concerns for financial services firms than regulation or cyber attacks, a survey showed on Monday. IT costs came second only to ...
Swiss Re Begins Singapore-Based Big Data Risk Reduction Initiative
Swiss Re will collaborate with four schools within the National University of Singapore on risk-reduction projects involving big data, business analytics and information technologies. Plans call for ...
Guy Carpenter Adds Financial Institutions and Cyber Components to GC ForCas Platform
Global risk and reinsurance specialist Guy Carpenter on Monday announced the launch of the Financial Institutions and Cyber components of its GC ForCas casualty catastrophe modeling platform. Guy ...
Lawmakers Urge U.S. Retaliation For Massive Hacking of Worker Data
The Obama administration should retaliate for a cyber-attack on federal employee records that was the worst breach the U.S. government has ever suffered, members of Congress said on Sunday. "There ...
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 ...