Data and information management

The Zurich-based reinsurer will provide 5 million Swiss francs to support risk management research and education.

Tom Sharkey Jr. will reprise his role as president of his family's recently relaunched firm.

After learning of a data leak exposing about 128,000 customers’ information, Wellpoint reportedly fixed it and is notifying customers.

Latest release designed to improve ease of use and faster time to market.

For insurers, privacy tops the list of chief compliance concerns, while Sarbanes-Oxley drops off the radar.

Raj Manghani will lead Risk Management Solutions’ efforts to help insurers use catastrophe modeling to make better underwriting decisions.

Research shows that automated processes for risk analysis and management, and the ability to align IT policy, risk and operations management with business initiatives are important when deciding whether to invest in a GRC solution.

A growing number of insurers recognize the need to use data analytics to enable intelligent, instant issue of underwritten life insurance.

Beyond keeping tabs on e-mail and paper trails, document management solutions ease the troubled minds of carriers, agents and brokers.

More sophisticated modeling and advances in location intelligence are helping insurers better assess risk on a changing planet.

Insurers may have enterprise risk management (ERM) building blocks in place, but lack of data, modeling capabilities and lack of business unit buy-in are impediments to fully incorporating ERM into strategic business decision-making.

Ethos now provides on-site surveillance operations in Kentucky, Florida and Alabama.

Compliance publication names Norkom “Vendor of Year” for its contribution to financial services and accounting compliance and regulation.

A new survey reports that most insurance industry executives feel confident in their ability to manage risks, yet those with excellent S&P ratings are more conservative. Both cite technology as an enabler.

Predictive modeling and emerging claims technologies will affect the nonstandard auto insurance market, according to Conning Research & Consulting.

New studies say climate and demographic changes are two of many interrelated risks that insurers must consider.

Charlottesville, Va. — SNL Financial, a sector-focused provider of business intelligence to financial institutions, released to its clients 2007 annual statutory insurance data for early-filing companies. Included with the release is detailed financial data on each filer, data by state and line of business, Schedule P loss triangle data and summary investment data, with hundreds of ratios, snapshots and analytics to facilitate analysis of this robust dataset. SNL also intends to make consolidated insurance group data available in the coming weeks.

Raleigh, N.C. — BB&T Insurance Services Inc., a Raleigh, N.C.-based, wholly owned subsidiary of Branch Banking and Trust Co., plans to expand its Florida operation with the acquisition of Burkey Risk Services of metro Orlando.

Fairfax, Va. — The Public Entity Risk Institute (PERI), a nonprofit research institute focused on risk management, launched an improved Web site designed to ease access to an extensive collection of risk management publications, programs and tools. Among the enhanced features found on the site is an expanded resource library organized by topic, audience and type of resource for more user-friendly research.

Newark, Calif. — Risk Management Solutions Inc. (RMS), a provider of products