Virtual Viewpoint

What do you view as the biggest headache in customer-facing technology today, and how do you resolve it?

The push for business growth has risen to the top of the response heap in many industry surveys on insurer priorities for 2010. Generational differences as well as rising customer expectations can turn a young CIO old very quickly . . . and that doesn't even begin to address the security—among many other issues—surrounding customer data. We asked a former CIO and current industry consultant to share her assessment. And we'd like to know what you think—so take a moment to tell us!

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Cat Models Only As Good As Given Data

Insurance companies rely on catastrophe models to provide reliable estimates of loss, whether for managing risk over the long term or for understanding their loss potential in real time as an actual event unfolds. However, the reliability of model output is only as good as the quality of the exposure data used as input.

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