Adverse conditions need not deliver a negative financial impact, thanks to protections offered by weather insurance For much of the United States, the winter of 2015-2016 was relatively easy to handle, especially when compared to the previous year. For example, the end of February this year saw just 15% of the total land area of the 48 contiguous states covered by snow. Exactly a year earlier, the percentage topped 60.
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Major changes create opportunities for agents Home-grown terrorism, security breaches into organizations such as Yahoo!, LinkedIn, and even the Democratic National Committee … the security industry has become a rapidly changing marketplace. With digital and physical security being inextricably linked, as businesses grapple with myriad security threats, they are running to keep pace with the changes. According to the 2015 Gartner report on cyber security, new business designs are being
Additional exposures may cause coverage lines to blur ISO Emerging Issues Perspective By Shawn E. Dougherty For all the benefits coming from a connected world, the digital age can often show a dark underside. Cyber exposures may represent the largest global issue emerging for insurers thus far in the 21st century. Cyber is also one of the fastest-growing insurance markets—but an area in which a lack of accurate pricing and
Opportunities abound for agents who pursue this demanding specialty Even as technology and globalization of commerce expand the scope of loss exposures for directors and officers, knowledgeable observers of the D&O insurance space find abundant capacity prepared to provide coverage on largely favorable terms for buyers. “The D&O marketplace continues to experience an abundance of capacity with a continued focus on innovative product offerings,” says Laura Coppola, regional head of
Cyber exposure adds new complexity to an already complex type of insurance By Joseph S. Harrington, CPCU Networked technology allows professionals to provide even more knowledge and service to their clients, but it comes at a price. The sensitive, confidential information clients share with their doctors, lawyers, accountants, and other professionals is essentially under siege from computer hackers, some backed by nation-states, which relentlessly search for vulnerabilities in information security.
