Tag: Business Insurance

AIG crowdfunding insurance will be among the company’s next offerings

Julie Campbell
AIG Insurance company CEO - Building in Manhattan

In order to assuage the concerns of investors, this coverage will help to protect them from being ripped off by startups. The American International Group has now unveiled a new form of coverage and this AIG crowdfunding insurance is meant to provide a unique protection not to startups that are attempting to raise money, but actually to the investors who want to take a chance on them but who are afraid of being scammed or losing their investments. The New York based insurance company is now gearing up for the…

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Cyber insurance coverage boosted by half of all risk managers

Julie Campbell
cyber insurance policies coverage fraud

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,…

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Fort McMurray insurance losses may be more than $9 billion

Julie Campbell
Fort McMurray insurance losses

The wildfire that continues to devastate the Canadian city is expected to be the most expensive in the country’s history. The Fort McMurray insurance losses resulting from the devastating wildfire that has burned its way through the city in the Canadian province of Alberta is expected to bring about the largest insured property losses the country has ever experienced from a single disaster. In fact, one analyst has estimated that the insured losses could come to a massive total as high as CAD$9.3 billion. The Fort McMurray insurance losses are…

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Cyber insurance more affordable as headline hacks dwindle

G. Turner
Cyber Insurance

As the hype over high profile data breaches subsides for a while, the premiums for coverage have fallen. Cyber insurance companies have responded to a lull in the occurrence of high profile hacks by slashing the rates they are charging to businesses such as health care companies and retailers to cover them against data breaches. This trend has been continuing throughout the first quarter of the year and has prompted insurers to cut rates. Over the last handful of years, particularly over the last couple, there have been some extremely…

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Liability insurance coverage needs spike with popularity of drones

H. Cutner
liability Insurance industry policy for drones

As businesses start to find a use for these unmanned flying devices, insurers are selling more policies. Commercial uses for drones are practically limitless and as businesses start to come up with reasons to use these flying devices, insurers are getting calls to make sure the appropriate liability insurance coverage is in place to cover the various perils that could be associated with them. Particularly the case in the United States for the last year, but other countries like Canada are s seeing similar trends. According to the Insurance Bureau…

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