Security risk

Rates Decrease as Much as 25%

Nearly all classes and regions declined, attributable to abundant capital, strong balance sheets and low CAT losses, Guy Carpenter said.

DTCC Automates Instruction for Corporate Actions Processing

The acquisition results in the establishment of Hamilton Re, which will put heavy emphasis on data analytics, research and fully integrated technology.

The insurer is seeking to appeal to parents with technology that can disable their children’s mobile phones when they are behind the wheel and provide warnings when they drive too fast.

Telematics, predictive modeling, leadership and security all were among topics of interest in 2013.

ACA Premium Deadline Extended 10 days by Insurers

Despite tornadoes in the United States, flooding and hail in Europe and Typhoon Haiyan, in terms of insured losses, Swiss Re finds it was a comparatively moderate year.

Industry associations and experts had a lot to say about the FIO report, even though there wasn’t much new information in it.

The report on how to modernize and improve the U.S. system of insurance regulation recommends a hybrid model that includes state and federal oversight.

The New York-based company is in the final stage of consideration to be labeled a systemically important financial institution, a finding that would subject the company to oversight from the U.S. Federal Reserve.

Compared to last year, there were fewer hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and fires, according to CoreLogic report.

Guy Carpenter Launches Version 3.0 of its Risk-Modeling Tool

The chief obstacle for health insurers is essentially a lack of insight into who’s enrolling in their HIX plans, says an independent merchant bank focused on mergers and acquisitions, financial restructuring and principal investing services in the health care industry.

The lack of hurricanes in the Atlantic will result in a low double-digit decline in pricing for 2014 renewals, Fitch said.

Proposed legislation is said to streamline claims settlement process.

The website’s software initially prevented Social Security numbers from being included in data sent to insurers, blocking complete enrollments in health plans. A fix announced yesterday will end 80 percent of those errors.

Parts of the Obamacare enrollment system used to pay insurers are being pushed back from January in the latest technology delay for the president’s U.S. health care overhaul.

Zurich CEO predicts a "big impactful cyber event that will occur over the next couple of decades" and says designing policies for attacks that could shut down power systems or stop a city’s transportation network is more than challenging.

Swiss Re Selects Wolters Kluwer Financial Services