Security risk

The company will look for a replacement among outside candidates with deep knowledge of the industry, chairman Tom de Swaan said.

The site features support for cybersecurity readiness and incident response services.

Research from The Insurance Research Council finds customers skeptical of insurers' ability to safeguard their personal information if they use telematics devices for usage-based insurance.

Some privacy advocates worry that the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act could do the opposite of what policymakers intended, flushing more of consumers' sensitive information out into the open than ever

Switzerland’s biggest insurer has hired the London firm MWM Consulting to conduct the search, he Swiss business magazine Bilanz reported Thursday.

Separately, Zurich last week announced 200 job cuts at the general-insurance business.

Some business groups say that proposed rules requiring insurers to purchase certain data protection technologies are unfair to firms from outside the country.

Insurance issues like security, speed to market and business-IT alignment are shared by CIOs across industries, according to the Society of Information Management.

SecurityScorecard will monitor cyber risk across the insurer's IT value chain.

Chris Gerdes is raising questions about ethical choices that must inevitably be programmed into the robotic minds expected one day soon to be driving along the nation’s highways.

Over the course of her 25-year career as a pension actuary, Peggy McDonald has seen the rise and fall of the traditional pension plan as the cornerstone of an employer’s retirement offering.

Cracas has been a champion of the power of predictive analytics not just in risk, but across the enterprise.

The dynamic energy industry has shaped this executive's leadership style and execution.

The insurer will be wound down because regulators found that it was likely to become financially insolvent.

A PwC report asserts that technology is both improving and introducing greater risk into insurers’ actuarial models.

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.

The takeover adds to a flurry of deals: Japan’s Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. and Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. agreed to buy U.S. firms in the past two months.

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

Managing reinsurance policies and claims with spreadsheet software is error-prone, slow and labor-intensive; regulatory compliance is difficult, and legitimate claims can slip through.