Latest Automation Optimization Headlines

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Minnesota Bars Use of Price Optimization in Insurance Rates

Nov 17 2015 // Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman has ordered insurers doing business in Minnesota to stop the practice of price optimization in setting rates for auto and homeowners insurance.Rothman said the anti-consumer...

The Price of Price Optimization in Insurance

Nov 17 2015 // The use of price optimization in insurance pricing is drawing increased attention and could be the next big industry battle.Or it could not be. Consumer groups and a growing contingent of states are labeling the practice...

Allianz Forms ‘Digital Transformation’ Unit; Various Senior Execs Appointed

Nov 16 2015 // To foster the digitalization of Allianz Group, a new unit called “Digital Transformation” will be established at Allianz SE, the company announced.Solmaz Altın (41), currently CEO of Allianz Turkey, will be...

States Probing Insurers’ Use of Price Optimization in Rating

Oct 19 2015 // When Fred and Donna Wolden’s biannual car insurance premium went up by $90 last month, they wanted to know why.The Wisconsin retirees hadn’t had an accident or bought a new vehicle. In fact, they say not much...

Delaware Bans Price Optimization in Insurance Pricing

Oct 19 2015 // Delaware has issued a bulletin prohibiting the use of price optimization in insurance pricing.The Delaware Department of Insurance said in its Bulletin No. 78 on Oct. 1 that “while price optimization has no...

Delaware Bans Use of Price Optimization in Insurance Pricing

Oct 6 2015 // Delaware has issued a bulletin prohibiting the use of price optimization in insurance pricing.The Delaware Department of Insurance said in its Bulletin No. 78 on Oct. 1 that “while price optimization has no...

Rhode Island Addresses Price Optimization

Oct 5 2015 // Rhode Island’s Insurance Division issued a bulletin on Sept. 18 for personal lines property/casualty insurers in the state that effectively prohibits the use of non-risk related features of price optimization.Rhode...

Zurich Joins CityMobil2 to Test Automated Self-driving Buses in Europe

Sep 25 2015 // Zurich Insurance Group announced that it has been selected as the insurance associate to CityMobil2, an EU-funded research project that is staging tests of automated road transport systems with self-driving buses across...

Rhode Island Directs Insurers Using Price Optimization to Submit Revised Filings

Sep 23 2015 // Rhode Island’s Insurance Division issued a bulletin on Sept. 18 advising that any personal lines property/casualty insurer that uses price optimization to rate policies in Rhode Island should submit revised filings...

Technology May Outpace Humans on Road to Automated Driving

Sep 14 2015 // From his laboratory at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, automated vehicle pioneer Raj Rajkumar says self-driving cars will evolve step-by-step, with humans staying in charge for a long time to come.More than...

District of Columbia, Maine, Pennsylvania Nix Price Optimization

Sep 7 2015 // The District of Columbia, Maine and Pennsylvania have recently joined a growing number of states and jurisdictions that issued directives prohibiting the use of price optimization.In Washington, D.C., the Department of...

District of Columbia Issues Price Optimization Ban Bulletin

Aug 28 2015 // The District of Columbia’s Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) this week issued a bulletin notifying property/casualty insurers doing business in the District that price optimization is...

Maine Issues Bulletin Prohibiting Use of Price Optimization

Aug 26 2015 // Maine Insurance Superintendent Eric A. Cioppa stated in a bulletin published Monday that in Maine, personal lines property/casualty insurers that use price optimization should submit revised rate filings removing such...

Pennsylvania Says Insurers Are Prohibited From Using Price Optimization

Aug 24 2015 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller has issued an official notice warning the state’s insurers that they are prohibited from using the price optimization techniques in property/casualty insurance...

101 Sales, Marketing & Management Ideas

Aug 17 2015 // Fellow agents, Insurance Journal readers, experts, educators, marketing professionals, along with Theodore Roosevelt, Steve Jobs, Zig Ziglar, CNBC’s Kelly Evans, Harvard Business Review and Fortune magazine have been...

It’s Time for Dialogue, not Demagoguery, on Price Optimization

Jul 29 2015 // Social activist Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals” was written as a how-to guide for community activists looking to compel political change. Yet its rules are...

Vermont Regulators Issue Bulletin on Price Optimization

Jul 20 2015 // Vermont regulators recently issued a bulletin addressing the issue of price optimization in personal lines ratemaking, warning insurers that adjustments to rates may not be based on non-risk-related factors.The Vermont...

Vermont Issues Bulletin on Price Optimization in Personal Lines Ratemaking

Jul 2 2015 // Vermont regulators issued a bulletin last week addressing the issue of “price optimization” in personal lines ratemaking.The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (DFR) noted in the bulletin that some...

Florida Bans Price Optimization; Insurers Question Definition

May 19 2015 // A memorandum released last week by Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty warning insurers in the state not to use price optimization in rating has gotten cheers from a consumer advocate group and jeers from an...

Can I be Held Negligent if My Self-Driving Car Causes an Accident?

Apr 20 2015 // On the topic of automation, Frank Lloyd Wright said: “If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”It is safe to assume that Mr. Wright had no idea how true his words would ring or...