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W.R. Berkley Sees a Q4 Dip in Net Income
W.R. Berkley Corp. reported a stellar fourth-quarter in terms of premium growth, but net income dipped at year-end due in part to investment return challenges. Berkley's 2014 Q4 net income is booked ...
AIR Worldwide Vet to Lead Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance’s Cat Engineering/Analytics Arm
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance brought in an AIR Worldwide executive to lead its new catastrophe engineering/analytics division. Akshay Gupta's will be head of Catastrophe Engineering & ...
Early AI initiatives in personal auto have largely focused on improving efficiency within individual functions, from claims and customer service...
Uber, Carnegie Mellon, Link on Driverless Tech Research Partnership
Uber Technologies, the controversial app-based ridesharing service, is launching a partnership with a major university focused on developing new autonomous driving technology. Uber disclosed the news ...
Uber Investor Google May Be Ramping Up Its Own Ridesharing Service
Uber faces an ever-growing cast of adversaries that includes dubious regulators, litigious drivers, hostile members of the press, and some well-funded rivals. But the most significant threat to the ...
Allstate Rolls Out Super-Fast, Same-day Claims Payment System
Allstate is launching a new electronic system capable of making same-day claims payments to a customer's bank account – a process enabled by an email address or cell phone. Allstate dubbed the new ...
The Hartford’s Renewed Focus on Property/Casualty is Paying Off
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., the insurer that sold life units to focus on property-casualty coverage, said fourth-quarter profit rose 22 percent as sales climbed at its main unit and ...
Viewpoint: U.S. Cybersecurity Not Possible Without Govt. Participation
Chances are, your company's computers will come under attack sometime soon. The perpetrators may want to steal personal information. They may want trade secrets or intellectual property. They may ...
Nationwide’s ‘Dead Boy’ Super Bowl Ad Stirs Controversy
Nationwide Insurance defended its Super Bowl ad featuring a "dead" boy, saying on Monday that it was intended to start a conversation about preventable accidents, not sell insurance. The ad, labeled ...