Technology & Analytics
RMS’ Exceedance 2014 Conference Kicks Off April 14 in D.C.
Newark, Calif.catastrophe-risk management firm RMS announced that its Exceedance 2014 event will take place next week in Washington, D.C., with keynote speakers that include the first chief ...
Alibaba’s Blueprint for E-Commerce Empire Includes Insurance, Mutual Funds
Alibaba, the world's biggest e-commerce company, changed how China shops. Now the man driving its blockbuster U.S. stock sale wants to transform the rest of the country's services industry, adding ...
P/C Insurers Looking to Compete Must Learn to Embrace the Cloud
Property/casualty insurance companies have a reputation for being risk-averse. That certainly has been the case when it comes to cloud computing. While other industries have more readily embraced the ...
Supreme Court Appears Unlikely to Radically Change Software Patent Law
U.S. Supreme Court justices stepped gingerly into a raging debate over computer software on Monday, voicing concerns about vaguely defined patents but signaling they would avoid any radical change to ...
Karen Clark & Co.’s RiskInsight Now a Fully Probabilistic Loss Modeling Platform
Karen Clark & Co. (KCC) on Tuesday announced that RiskInsight, the open platform for catastrophe risk management, is now a fully probabilistic loss estimation tool capable of generating ...
Use of Predictive Modeling Increasing: Towers Watson
The use of predictive modeling continues to increase in nearly every business line, according to Towers Watson's fifth annual Predictive Modeling Benchmarking Survey. The survey examined how North ...
Developers Wanted by Progressive for Driver Behavior Smartphone App
Progressive is working with application developers to find a way to use mobile phones to measure customers' driving behaviors, the auto insurer said in an announcement yesterday. The announcement was ...
Cyber Attacks Increasing, Costing Millions, Straining Internet
Crashing websites and overwhelming data centers, a new generation of cyber attacks is costing millions and straining the structure of the Internet. While some attackers are diehard activists, ...