Technology & Analytics
Big Data, Cyber, Predictive Analytics on Agenda at University Symposium
The Academy of Risk Management and Insurance at St. Joseph's University is sponsoring a half-day symposium in May, addressing technology and innovation in the property/casualty insurance industry. ...
AIR Appoints Jayanta Guin Executive Vice President
Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide on Monday announced that Dr. Jayanta Guin has been appointed executive vice president. Guin will continue to direct AIR's innovative research program as well ...
Third Parties Providing Data, Models Through AIR’s Touchstone Cat Platform
Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) announced Wednesday that a large number of third-party suppliers have chosen to provide their data and models through Touchstone. Those third-party ...
RMS’ Exceedance 2014 Conference Kicks Off April 14 in D.C.
Newark, Calif.catastrophe-risk management firm RMS announced that its Exceedance 2014 event will take place next week in Washington, D.C., with keynote speakers that include the first chief ...
Alibaba’s Blueprint for E-Commerce Empire Includes Insurance, Mutual Funds
Alibaba, the world's biggest e-commerce company, changed how China shops. Now the man driving its blockbuster U.S. stock sale wants to transform the rest of the country's services industry, adding ...
P/C Insurers Looking to Compete Must Learn to Embrace the Cloud
Property/casualty insurance companies have a reputation for being risk-averse. That certainly has been the case when it comes to cloud computing. While other industries have more readily embraced the ...
Supreme Court Appears Unlikely to Radically Change Software Patent Law
U.S. Supreme Court justices stepped gingerly into a raging debate over computer software on Monday, voicing concerns about vaguely defined patents but signaling they would avoid any radical change to ...
Karen Clark & Co.’s RiskInsight Now a Fully Probabilistic Loss Modeling Platform
Karen Clark & Co. (KCC) on Tuesday announced that RiskInsight, the open platform for catastrophe risk management, is now a fully probabilistic loss estimation tool capable of generating ...