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If SpaceX rockets are to be reused, they’ll need insurance first

June 9, 2016June 8, 2016 H. Cutner

The company is looking to use their technology more than once and is preparing to recover them for re-launch. Now that it has been shown that SpaceX rockets are able to make landings on a consistent basis, they are now looking to insurance underwriters to make it possible to be able to reuse those devices for the launch of commercial satellites. The insurance industry will need to be heavily involved in this process in order to manage the financial implications. Over the next week or two, the Hawthorn space company…

Cyber insurance coverage boosted by half of all risk managers

May 20, 2016May 18, 2016 Julie Campbell

A new HSB report has indicated that 50 percent of businesses have either bought or increased their policies. A report by the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (HSB) based on a recent survey of risk managers has suggested that 50 percent of businesses either purchased cyber insurance coverage for the first time or increased the amount of protection they carried in 2015. Equally, the survey revealed that about 30 percent of companies have no cyber insurance policies at all. Among the companies that didn’t purchase cyber insurance coverage,…

Could health insurance discrimination result from DNA data collection?

May 17, 2016May 14, 2016 Julie Campbell

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In all but one G7 country, there are laws to protect people from losing rights based on their genetics. There is a rising belief among geneticists that the completion of genome sequencing would cause people to discover things about themselves that they don’t want to know, but many don’t realize that health insurance discrimination could also result from this type of test. These tests produce a detailed analysis of a person’s complete genetic code and they are not expensive to obtain. Naturally, DNA tests will not guarantee that a person…

Cyber insurance premiums are falling as major digital attacks drop in frequency

April 15, 2016April 13, 2016 S.Vagus

Premiums are beginning to decline due to the growing rarity of major cyber attacks Cyber insurance premiums are beginning to fall thanks to a decline in the number of major data breaches that have been reported. Major data breaches have made headlines in the past few years, but the frequency at which these digital attacks are occurring has fallen. As a result, cyber insurance rates have fallen during the first three months of this year for several high-risk industries, such as the retail and health care spaces. Large companies have…

State-run health insurance exchanges contain security flaw

April 12, 2016April 10, 2016 Julie Campbell

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An investigation has discovered that the California, Vermont and Kentucky sites left personal data vulnerable. In a recent investigation of state-run health insurance exchange websites, “significant cybersecurity weaknesses” were discovered in California, Vermont and Kentucky, according to federal officials. These flaws in the websites may have left the personal information of residents of those states open to hackers. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) discovered the vulnerabilities. This independent agency functions as a watchdog organization over Congress. The investigation it conducted looked into the health insurance exchange websites of the individual…