Insurance -- News & Trends
Journals & Magazines
Databases
News Aggregators
Academic & Analyst Reports
Journals & Magazines
To find magazines and journals focused on the insurance industry, search e-Journals@Emory using key words like "insurance" or "risk." Key industry publications include:
Best’s Review
Business Insurance
Insurance Advocate
Journal of Insurance
National Underwriter
Databases
To search its files of insurance stories, select (under the search box):
Find more sources > Market and Industry > By Industry and Topic > Insurance
There are several industry specific sources in this news file; to search Nexis' insurance group files, select insurance stories or insurance news.
For recent news on the insurance industry:
Expand the Industry tab by "Select Sources and Factiva Intelligent Indexing." Search insurance to select from the variety of insurance lines available, ranging from “pet insurance” to “catastrophe reinsurance.”
This includes the full text of most key insurance publications. Good subjects to search are:
Insurance claims
Insurance company ratings
Insurance fraud
Insurance industry
Insurance premiums
Insurance rates
Insurance commissionersHoover's offers high level profiles for several specific lines of insurance. Select “browse industries” – insurance is a main category -- narrow by the several subcategories available including life, heath, auto, and commercial.
This provides several reports on the impact of technology on the use of technology in preventing fraudulent claims, outsourcing services, etc. Good subjects to search include:
Claims Administration
Healthcare payer systems
Online insurance
Underwriting applications
Insurance distributionIf you prefer to browse reports by topic, select Business Administration > Financial Services Systems > Insurance Systems.
News Aggregators
Insurance Information Institute
III offers frequently updated overviews of 'hot topics' in the insurance industry. The Media section has several sections including hot topics, issues updates, financial data, and other studies.
Academic & Analyst Reports
Wall Street Transcript
To browse recent reports covering both insurance and financial services, click the"financial" tab at the top. You may also use the free text search to identify reports. You may search as broadly as "insurance," or specify a line.
There are several analysts who provide insight into current trends and issues in the insurance industry. The following are a selection of reputable reports that provide the vast majority of their content for free.
Insurance and Pensions@Emory
Swiss Re’s Sigma Reports
Financial Services Factbook
International Insurance Factbook
