Risk

The insurer reports "mailing error" sent member name, insurance number, diagnoses codes and descriptions, procedure code and description, prescription name and provider names to wrong addresses.

Set of predictive models designed to separate major perils, aggregate by-peril expected losses to an all perils combined basis; more than a dozen insurers are participating in pilot tests to evaluate the environmental module.

Respondents fear new GAAP statutory principle-based framework will increase volatility of financial results.

The company says the unique transaction-based financial model provides participating plans with a more direct and cost-effective route to consumers than individual brokers.

Models forecast slightly above-average season, as report identifies $300 billion of U.S. residential properties at risk of storm surge.

Teen Drivers Play the Blame Game

New study urges regulators to consider carriers’ financial health as dissimilar to banks when it comes to global system risk regulation.

AIG UGI Asia, First American Title, Prudential Financial, State Auto, State Farm and others receive updates.

System uses investment information to feed performance tools for calculating performance rates of return at multiple levels.

Insurers to be assisted with regulatory filings on securities-lending programs.

Scientists and the insurance industry are wise to ponder the potential impact of climate change.

NHTSA Chief: Do Away with Distracting Tech

Shelby broaches privatization of beleaguered program at Senate hearings.

Efforts Underway to Curb Hail-Related Damage

Trade associations send letter to President Obama urging him to pressure the G20.

At Joplin Hospital and Data Center, Speed Boosts Tornado Recovery

Another INN blogger had a different take on Al Gore’s speech at IASA, but in the end, Gore cannot escape the slick image he earned as a politician.

Rule to Tighten EDI Standards in Final Stages

Revolutionary violence, insurrection, strikes and war join terrorism as key threats to businesses, says reinsurance intermediary Aon.

A.M. Best, Fitch Ratings, Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s (S&P’s) released ratings updates. The following are some of the most recent: