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Insurance & Technology September 1, 2008 Katherine Burger	Heeding the Lessons of Katrina, Insurance Companies -- and Other Institutions -- Improve Catastrophe Response The responses to Hurricanes Fay and Gustav shows that much has been learned in the three years since Hurricane Katrina. But are carriers as insightful about the symbolic implications of these storms?
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Insurance & Technology July 12, 2006 Maria Woehr	Not Risking It The availability of catastrophe models generated overconfidence among insurers, which, after the past hurricane season, are realizing the technology's limitations. However, insurers will still continue to rely on cat modeling to reduce risk exposure.
Insurance & Technology March 16, 2004 Julie Gallagher	Battening Down the Hatches When it comes to predicting low-frequency, high-impact catastrophes, underwriters of risk must rely on thousands of years of scenarios rather than their proprietary loss data.
Insurance & Technology March 9, 2007 Nathan Conz	Travelers Deploys Mobile Catastrophe Units to Respond to Florida Tornadoes By deploying mobile claims vehicles to the recent tornado-damaged central Florida region, the P&C insurance provider was able to focus its response efforts and minimize claims adjustment lag time.
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Insurance & Technology August 7, 2008 Stuart Rose	Insurers' Fraud Technology Is Behind the Times But network link analysis, voice stress-recognition software and other emerging analytics technologies, along with fraud propensity scoring, can bring carriers up to speed.
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Insurance & Technology January 25, 2005 Cynthia Saccocia	Did You Say Controlled Tech Spending? Aw, Not Again! Insurance is an industry that reacts decisively to its business cycles and urgently to intrusions of reality such as catastrophic claims, economic issues and regulation.
Insurance & Technology March 7, 2006 Deena M. Amato-McCoy	Storm Surge Refusing to be caught off guard again, insurance companies are reexamining their IT strategies and operations in anticipation of the fast-approaching 2006 hurricane season.
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Insurance & Technology December 13, 2006 Anthony O'Donnell	Data-Driven Winners Breakthroughs in the use of analytic technology are changing the competitive dynamics of the P&C industry, and carriers that learn to harness large volumes of high-quality data to drive decisions will come up winners.
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Managed Care February 2004	Overall, a good climate in 2004 Operating performance is expected to be strong this year, thanks to moderating medical costs and rate increases that are forecast to run between 10 percent and 12 percent, on average.
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Insurance & Technology January 17, 2006 Maria Woehr	Constant Change The coming year's regulatory and political agenda could result in requirements for reform and increasing technology investments, which could alter the business environment for property and casualty, life, and health insurers alike.
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Insurance & Technology January 5, 2007 John Lucker	Winning a Zero-Sum Game Insurers are playing a zero-sum game - the aggregate of insurable risks is simply not growing at a rate commensurate with growth projections.
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Insurance & Technology April 6, 2010 Anthony O'Donnell	Healthcare Reform Will Require Massive Insurance IT Spending Caught off guard by the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, insurers must modernize IT while increasing operational efficiency.
BusinessWeek September 26, 2005 Aaron Pressman	An Unbreached Financial Levee Hurricane Katrina wasn't powerful enough to trigger losses in catastrophe bonds.
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Insurance & Technology October 7, 2005 Anthony O'Donnell	Mean Season In addition to driving a more expeditious claims process, technology has played an important role in minimizing the effect of an event like Katrina on the fortunes of insurance companies and the industry as a whole.
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Insurance & Technology May 26, 2010 Anthony O'Donnell	Carriers Shifting Distribution Dollars To Mobile, Accenture Research Finds Insurers are planning to invest on average $84 million on strategic distribution improvements over the next three years according to a survey of 125 insurers globally.
Insurance & Technology March 5, 2008 David West	Exclusive Research Report: Insurance IT Spending Slowdown Already Upon Us, TowerGroup Says Although TowerGroup previously observed an upward trend in insurance carriers' IT spending with an anticipated slowing in spending by 2009, the latest research suggests that the slowdown already is upon us.
Insurance & Technology November 28, 2005 Maria Woehr	Tracking Super Cats The devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina will prompt more insurers to work with super catastrophe, or Super Cat, modeling.
Insurance & Technology January 31, 2007 Anthony O'Donnell	RMS Faces Heat in Florida Catastrophe modeler RMS finds itself in the midst of an acrimonious conflict between the State of Florida and P&C insurers about rising property insurance rates.