Technology/Science
Electronic Aggression: Uncovering Expensive Coverage Gaps
It used to be bullies were restricted to the playground—but not anymore. Cyberbullying is at epidemic levels. Facebook, YouTube and other social media have become platforms for bullying, and ...
Managing, Not Excluding, New Risks Key To Long-Term P/C Growth: Actuaries
Property/casualty insurers must learn how to manage new risks like nanotechnology, not just exclude them, if they want to survive and grow long-term, according to speakers at the spring meeting of ...
Google & Microsoft: Enemies In Court, Frenemies In Congress
Even as they battle in courts over smartphone and video technology, Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. have discovered a common foe: patent owners who try to sue their customers or go after an entire ...
Study Raises New Concern About Earthquakes’ Links To Fracking Fluids
Powerful earthquakes thousands of miles away can trigger swarms of minor quakes near wastewater-injection wells like those used in oil and gas recovery, scientists reported on Thursday, sometimes ...
U.S., China Agree to Restart Investment Treaty Talks
The United States and China agreed on Thursday to restart stalled negotiations on an investment treaty, with Beijing dropping previous efforts to protect certain sectors of its economy from the ...
Financial Industry Takes Cybersecurity Seriously: Judd Gregg
The financial industry has been under a constant state of attack for the past year as hackers attempt to steal clients' money, crash computer systems and disrupt capital markets. So far, the industry ...
Drugmakers Search for Safer Painkillers Amid Opioid Abuse Epidemic
Backed by a U.S. campaign to slow abuse of prescription painkillers, drugmakers are devising new forms of the medicines that don't lead to misuse and new products that treat dependency in a bid to ...
How Carriers, Agents Can Adapt As Small Commercial Buyers Move Online
About 52 percent of America's small business insurance customers say they are ready to complete their commercial insurance purchasing online without the aid of an agent or broker. That's according to ...