News tagged with insurance company

Want a piece of Facebook? Get in line

Facebook may be the year's hottest stock issue -- but try getting a piece of it. Small investors will find the line long and hurdles high to get even a handful of shares.

Technology / Business

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Panoramic images of Great Barrier Reef will take millions on virtual dives

Internet surfers will soon be able to go below the surface to immerse themselves in the spectacular coral and marine life of the Great Barrier Reef, under a joint venture between global technology giant Google, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars

Nevada is becoming the first state to regulate self-driving vehicles on its roadways.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 3

Study compares the accuracy of valuation methods of insurance companies

A study by Columbia Business School Professor Doron Nissim, Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting & Finance, reveals a better understanding of how investors value insurance companies. Two alternative approaches are typically ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Painless' plasma brush is becoming reality in dentistry, engineers say

University of Missouri engineers and their research collaborators at Nanova, Inc. are one step closer to a painless way to replace fillings. After favorable results in the lab, human clinical trials are underway ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 8

Unique 'listening' technology tackles widespread fraud issues

Alaris, a joint venture startup company between ASU and Rolls-Royce, aims to tackle health care insurance fraud that is estimated to cost U.S. taxpayers more than $200 billion each year. This partnership was ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Accident app to reduce motorist stress and combat insurance fraud

A new smartphone app that will help to guide stressed motorists through the trauma of a car accident, while potentially saving millions of pounds in fraudulent insurance claims has been recognised for its ...

Technology / Software

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

If insurance companies pay out too often, farmers will be threatened with ruin in the long term

Insurance can help farmers to survive dry periods. However, it can also result in the long term in overgrazing and therefore threaten their existence if insurance companies pay out in periods of moderate drought ...

Biology / Other

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

IBM putting Watson to work in health insurance

Enough with the fun and games. Watson is going to work. IBM's supercomputer system, best known for trouncing the world's best "Jeopardy!" players on TV, is being tapped by one of the nation's largest health ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 13

Research reveals why hedge funds are an unlikely large source of systemic risk

The Journal of Financial Economics recently published a paper by Andrew Ang, Chair, Ann F. Kaplan Professor of Business and Chair, Finance and Economics Division at Columbia Business School; Sergiy Gorovyy, PhD candidate, Columb ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Japan quake makes 2011 costliest disaster year

Japan's earthquake in March is set to make 2011 the costliest year to date for natural disasters, reinsurer Munich Re said on Tuesday, although the number of deaths globally is relatively low so far.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The blackbox in your car

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is expected that within the next month officials at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will declare that all cars must have an event data recorder inside the vehicle.

Technology / Other

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 124 | with audio podcast weblog

Overly easy to steal cargo from transport networks

Each year, billions of euros worth of goods are being stolen from European transport networks. A discouraged transport and logistics sector has more or less chosen to tolerate the problem. But there are solutions, according ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Insurers are scouring social media for evidence of fraud

Now there's another reason to be careful about what you post on Facebook: Your insurance company may be watching. Nathalie Blanchard found out the hard way.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US says 129 million people have health woes

As many as 129 million people in the United States, or almost half of those under 65, have a pre-existing condition that could bar them from health insurance, a government report said Tuesday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4