| Today's Headlines | December 28, 2021 |
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The warning could not be more urgent. According to a recent assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), our world now risks missing the target for limiting global warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees unless we implement more stringent climate protection policies. The latest weather-related natural catastrophes are harbingers of what the future... read more | | |
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Building on referrals from startup funding specialists like SVB Financial Group and Y Combinator, InsurTech startup Vouch has attracted thousands of startups seeking business coverages ranging from liability to D&O to its insurance platform since 2018. In addition, in early September, Vouch announced that it was partnering with Brex (a provider of all-in-one financial software),... read more | | |
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It's officially the holiday season. Everywhere you go you will hear Christmas carols and one we all know – whether you celebrate the holiday or not – is the 12 Days Christmas. You know, the one about Two Turtle Doves, Seven Swans-a-Swimming and Eleven Pipers Piping. The ... read more | | |
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The 2021 California wildfire season continued the worrying trend of more extreme fires than the historical norm. As of December 12, 8,786 wildfires had destroyed over 2.5 million acres, about 1 million more acres than the five-year average, according to Cal Fire. Persistent drought, excessive heat, and ineffective forest management policies are among the factors... read more | | |
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The prospect of property/casualty insurers and reinsurers adding information from geospatial imagery to their toolkits for underwriting, product development and claims handling isn't an entirely new idea. But it's one that is getting a lot more attention in 2021. Industry giants including AXA XL and Swiss Re have been using geospatial information systems (GIS) for... read more | | |
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Robotic vacuum cleaners wouldn't start. Doorbell cameras stopped watching for package thieves, though some of those deliveries were canceled anyway. Netflix and Disney movies got interrupted and The Associated Press had trouble publishing the news. A major outage in Amazon's cloud computing network on Dec. 7 severely disrupted services at a wide range of U.S.... read more | | |
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The resilience of America's critical infrastructure networks has been tested over the last year by an increasing number of serious disasters—both natural and manmade—including winter storms shutting down electrical grids in Texas and the ransomware attacks on the Colonial Pipeline and meat producer JBS USA. An analysis published by Unal Tatar of the College of... read more | | |
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The global economy is built on the backs of hardworking "industrial athletes," and providing those athletes with the equipment to keep them safe is the mission of one New York-based technology firm with ties to insurance. The technology firm is StrongArm Technologies, the employer of one of the co-authors of this article (Matt), which has... read more | | |
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In a more typical time, burnout is an exception. In the era of COVID, it almost feels like the norm. According to Jennifer Moss, organizations should take a hard look in the mirror for fostering cultures of overwork that make things worse. The author, speaker and workplace wellness expert has penned "The Burnout Epidemic: The... read more | | |
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| | It's good to be in the E&S market right now. Indeed, E&S typically ... read more | |
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| | How much do you know about the risks in your portfolio—and what might you be ... read more | |
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| | Future economic fundamentals may produce tailwinds for insurers seeking to ... read more | |
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| | Join Dave McKenna, VP, IT & CISO from Upland Capital and OneShield's ... read more | |
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| | This paper will review the current model of incident response for ransomware ... read more | |
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