Technology & Analytics
U.S. Releases Guidelines for Improved Corporate Cybersecurity
The U.S. government on Wednesday released the final version of standards meant to help companies in nationally critical industries better defend against cyber attacks, and officials now face the ...U.S. to Unveil Voluntary Guidelines for Corporate Cybersecurity
The U.S. government is expected on Wednesday to release the final version of voluntary standards meant to help U.S. companies in nationally critical industries better protect themselves against cyber ...
Praedicat Launches Cloud-based Casualty Model; Mines Data from Published Science
Praedicat, the world's first liability catastrophe modeling company, announced the launch of its flagship software product, CoMeta on Tuesday. CoMeta delivers commercially-relevant analytics for ...
Towers Watson Releases UBI Auto Insurance Model
Towers Watson has launched DriveAbility 2.0 Score, an analytical scoring model designed for the automobile insurance industry. DriveAbility 2.0 Score includes a GPS version with location-specific ...
The Challenges Around Big Data and the Lessons to Be Learned
The hype around big data is focusing ever more attention on insurers' data management and analytics capabilities. Analysis of data, creation of predictive models and the ability to take action based ...
Nearly One-Quarter of Insurance Consumers Would Buy Cover from Amazon, Google: Accenture
Two-thirds (67 percent) of insurance customers would consider purchasing insurance products from organizations other than insurers, including 23 percent who would consider buying from online service ...
Top 2014 P/C Trend: Investment in Mobile Agent Tech Lags as Carriers Focus on Gen Y
Mobile strategies focused on Gen Y customers and personal lines innovations will shape the plans of property/casualty insurance carrier management teams in 2014, but at least one of these approaches ...
Integrating Reinsurance Management System with Core Systems Reduces Risk
Insurers' numerous intricate reinsurance contracts and special pool arrangements, countless policies, and arrays of transactions create a massive risk of having unintended exposure. Inability to ...