Regulation & Compliance
More States Eye Use of Drug Formularies in Workers Comp
While workers compensation pharmacy benefit managers have been utilizing drug formularies to control prescription drug costs and monitor medical treatments for a long time, states are now catching ...
A.M. Best: ORSA Won’t Affect Its Ratings Process
A.M. Best said that the new Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA) requirements taking effect for insurers in the U.S. this year won't affect its ratings process much at all. "Most carrier filing an ...
Great American Insurance Entering Singapore Market
Great American Insurance Group is joining the procession of specialty insurers staffing up a new branch operation in Singapore, the group announced Friday. The group said that its lead insurer, Great ...
Regulatory and Market Imperatives Place Cybersecurity High on Carrier Agendas
Insurance carriers, with their large repositories of high-value personally identifiable information (PII), are increasingly threatened by cyber attacks from bad actors globally. Such attacks could ...
P/C Industry Fills Drone Coverage Void Left By Regulators
Thousands of drones flown without government approval by real estate companies, movie studios and other businesses are getting coverage by insurers writing their own safety rules to fill a void left ...
New York Hedge Fund Launches Bermuda Reinsurer
Sandell Asset Management Corp., the activist hedge-fund firm run by Tom Sandell, started a Bermuda-based reinsurer to support its investing strategy. Sandell Re will rely on the hedge fund to oversee ...
Monetary Incentives Don’t Prompt Whistleblowing; Protections Do
New research from North Carolina State University and Bucknell University finds that strong, reliable anti-retaliation policies can encourage employees to notify internal authorities of possible ...
Attacking Cyber Risk: NY Regulator Mandates Warranties from Insurer Vendors
Cybersecurity is likely the most important issue that the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) will face in 2015, and perhaps for many years to come after that, New York Financial Services ...