Digital Risk

News 16.8.10: Protection of consumers' confidential data 16 August 2010 Circular 080/10: The protection of personal insurance and other sensitive data is important for companies for reputation, regulatory and financial reasons. This Circular gives high level guidance on the sorts of issues that should be considered when implementing systems and controls to protect customer data. 18.1.10: Market Briefing: Avoiding Pitfalls in Electronic Transactions, Storage of Electronic Data and Going Paperless 18 January 2010 Circular 006/10: This market briefing sets forth potential legal risks (and ways of minimizing such risks) in electronic transactions, storage of e-data and going paperless in both the USA and UK. 19.11.09: Market Briefing: E-mail and E-signature - Common myths and misconceptions that may leave you either exposed to risk or stuck in a paper world 19 November 2009 Circular 117/09: This market briefing will look at how common email practices stand up when required to provide reliable records of business correspondence. 9.2.09: IUA Digital Risk Working Party 9 February 2009 Circular 012/09: A request for new members to join the IUA Digital Risk Working Party. 11.9.08: Market Briefing: The Role of Technology in Transforming Underwriting 11 September 2008 This IUA Market Briefing will highlight technology used by leading insurers to benefit commercial lines business. 30.4.08: EU Sector Inquiry – Coinsurance (Subscription) Market Practices 30 April 2008 Further to the comments raised by DG Comp on premium alignment in its Sector Inquiry, the attached Principles in respect of the placement of coinsurance business by intermediaries have now been agreed and endorsed by national Associations in the EU. Members are strongly encouraged to adopt these Principles during their business practices. 21.4.08: Market Briefing: Data Security 21 April 2008 A market briefing examining the issues of data security and cyber crime. 3.3.08: Market Briefing: Data Security and Data Breach - The Emerging Corporate Risk 3 March 2008 Details of an IUA market briefing which will examine data protection issues and explain why this topic is moving to the top of many companies regulatory risk profiles. IUA Digital Risk Working Party Seminar Report 21 February 2008 By: Scott Farley What is data security? This is a question that has no doubt been occupying the minds of some rather senior government ministers in recent months, and one that was posed at the start of a recent seminar hosted by the International Underwriting Association (IUA). . . Data Protection: Myth or Reality? 18 January 2008 Details of a free half day seminar hosted by the IUA Digital Risk Working Party Circular 103/07 - Market Briefing: Electronic Discovery in the US What Insurers and Reinsurers Need to Know 24 August 2007 A market briefing providing a basic overview on the issues surrounding electronic data evidence, prepared for the insurance/reinsurance professional with exposure to these issues in the United States. Circular 041/07 Market Briefing: The Implications of EC & UK Competition Law for the Insurance Sector 22 March 2007 Details of three market briefings to be held during 2007 to provide IUA members with training on aspects of competition law.