Data and information management

Swiss insurer Zurich, grappling with a surge in claims, abandons a $8.7 billion offer for RSA Insurance.

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The insurer is establishing partnerships with auto insurance technology companies to better handle emerging risks.

Whether Excellus BlueCross BlueShield learned that it had suffered a cyber attack because the organization or a contractor was looking for signs of hacking, or learned from a law enforcement agency is not clear, as the company isn’t saying much about the incident outside of formal announcements.

The insurer said it “learned that cyber attackers had executed a sophisticated attack to gain unauthorized access to our information technology systems.” The pertinent words here are “learned” and “sophisticated;” other organizations hacked have used the same terms.

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Rochester, N.Y.-based Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield was hacked at least twice going back to 2013.

American International Group Inc. and Axis Capital Holdings Ltd. are among insurers for the company that owns AshleyMadison.com, the adultery website hacked in a breach that exposed more than 37 million users, people familiar with the policies said.

Swiss insurer Basler Versicherung AG Schweiz has implemented Guidewire’s PolicyCenter and BillingCenter, as well as Guidewire’s Client Data Management and Rating Management applications, to support its property line of business, Guidewire said.

The market for health insurance in the U.S. is already so highly concentrated that pending tie-ups among four of the country’s largest insurers risk hurting both consumers and doctors, the American Medical Association said.

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The Verisk Telematics Data Exchange promises greater portability of usage-based insurance data across companies.

The Canadian insurer is allowing customers and advisors to opt for voice recognition over manual password entry in the contact center.

The Swiss telematics technology firm announced that its Telematics Analyzer now can integrate with any back-end system

The three new features are intended to enable deeper insights around driver behavior and profiles, the company said.

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Big data software now is just a small part of the overall market for information management, but it is set to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 50% through 2019, acording to Ovum.

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More than 80 percent of healthcare organizations have been compromised by cyber-attacks in past two years, according to KPMG.