Technology/Science
Increased Risk of COVID From Vaping—To Male Mice
The use of e-cigarettes, or vaping, causes serious damage to the lungs. After the novel coronavirus responsible for the respiratory disease COVID-19 emerged last year, there have been ongoing ...
InsurTech Product News From Milliman, Tractable
Milliman unveiled a suite of flood InsurTech products that the consulting firm said it designed to ease market entry for private insurers, startups and MGAs. Separately, InsurTech unicorn Tractable ...
GIS 2021: The Next Big Cyber Target Is Insurers Themselves
As "the next digital pandemic," cyber risks are increasingly becoming a problem for insurers themselves, according to an industry expert. With "a lack of controls at [an] insurer, [you] could have ...
Praedicat, AIR Worldwide Announce Updates
In separate announcements, InsurTech Praedicat and Verisk's catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide and unveiled changes to key products recently. Praedicat updated the litigation tracker in its ...
NHSTA Orders Crash Reports on Autonomous Vehicles, ADAS-Involved Accidents
The U.S. government's highway safety agency has ordered automakers to report any crashes involving fully autonomous vehicles or partially automated driver assist systems. The move Tuesday by the ...
No Data Breach, LinkedIn Says
of several reports of a LinkedIn data breach surfacing in cybersecurity publications in recent days, the social media platform says that no breach actually occurred. In a post titled, "An update on ...
Better Use of Science Could Boost Climate Lawsuits
Newly-available scientific evidence, which could prove critical to the success of climate-related lawsuits, is often not produced in court, according to a new study published by the Oxford ...
EIS Eyes New Insurance Software Growth Phase With $100 Million TPG Investment
Insurance software company EIS secured a $100 million investment from private equity firm TPG, money designed to help it accelerate product development across multiple product lines. A geographic ...