Health insurance costs have increased sharply in 2017. The effects of the increases have been widespread, reaching both group health policies and affecting costs on the individual market. If you didn’t encounter rate hikes yourself, you probably know someone who did. Continue reading
A combination of consumer demand and industry interest could create a wave of smart home technology and IoT disruption for home insurers in the near future Continue reading
As the fastest growing coverage in the country, cyber insurance is certainly an exciting and dynamic space in which to operate. But, exponential growth also brings challenges and unexpected roadblocks. With that in mind, IBA sat down with Kari Stern, Claims Manager at NAS Insurance Services, to find out how she’s managing the rapidly evolving industry, her biggest challenges of 2016, and to ask what major trends she foresees impacting the cyber space in 2017. Continue reading
“We’re going to have insurance for everybody. There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us,” president-elect Donald J. Trump said in an interview with The Washington Post. Continue reading
Effective January 1, 2017, OSHA has revised its requirements for recording and submitting workplace injury records and illnesses. The OSHA Final Rule on Electronic Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses revisions require that some recorded information is submitted to OSHA electronically. Continue reading
Business interruption is a top global corporate risk for the fifth year in a row. But worries about Brexit and incoming U.S. President Donald Trump also made the list of companies’ 2017 fears and uncertainties in a new Allianz report.
About 37 percent of respondents rated business interruption as their biggest risk worry, essentially even with 2016, the latest annual Allianz Risk Barometer noted. This year’s report – Allianz’s sixth annual – was based on a survey of 1,237 risk experts from 55 countries. Continue reading
Medicaid, which provides health care to low-income people, is administered state by state. Extracting, cleaning and curating the information from so many disparate and dated computer systems was an extraordinary achievement, health and technology specialists say. This new collection of data could inform the coming debate on Medicaid spending. Continue reading
Top cyber threats during 2017 are expected to include nation state cyber espionage, a rise in data integrity attacks and an increase in attacks harnessing Internet of Things (IoT) devices, according to a report published by Stroz Friedberg, an Aon company.
Cyber attacks will intensify this year as “exploit techniques become more cunning,” said the report, titled “2017 Cybersecurity Predictions.” Continue reading
