Latest Automation Optimization Headlines

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Studies Weigh How Human Behaviors Affect Self-Driving Cars

Mar 1 2016 // How much people trust technology and what type of driving alerts they respond to may have as much or more to do with the success of autonomous vehicles than technological, legal and security concerns, according to two new...

Why Robots Replacing Humans at Work Is More Science Fiction Than Fact

Feb 19 2016 // Ever since robots emerged from the pages of science-fiction novels into the real world, humans have feared being usurped in the workplace.That worry may be more fictional than scientific. A recent study by the VDMA...

Automating Insurance Jobs

Feb 8 2016 // Automation could leave up to 25 percent of the insurance industry’s current full-time positions consolidated or replaced over the next decade, McKinsey & Co. said in a new report, “Automating the Insurance...

How Automation Will Whack Up to 25% of Insurance Jobs: McKinsey

Feb 1 2016 // Automation could leave up to 25 percent of the insurance industry’s current full-time positions consolidated or replaced over the next decade, McKinsey & Co. said in a new report, Automating the Insurance...

Missouri Joins Other States in Barring Insurers’ Use of Price Optimization

Jan 25 2016 // In mid-January, the Missouri Department of Insurance issued a bulletin to insurers reminding them that the rating practice generally known as “price optimization” is prohibited in the state.“Price...

Why Regulation Is Good for Driverless Cars

Jan 21 2016 // You don’t often hear a libertarian praising a federal regulator when it starts offering “guidance” and “coordination” for some innovative industry. Well, mark your calendars, folks, because...

N.Y. Aims to Improve Storm Forecasts With Automated Weather Stations

Jan 19 2016 // Counting every raindrop or measuring every gust of wind is impossible, but New York is getting closer with a uniquely extensive statewide system of automated weather stations that should paint a dramatically clearer...

Missouri Insurance Director: Price Optimization Violates Missouri Law

Jan 13 2016 // The Missouri Department of Insurance has issued a bulletin to Missouri insurers reminding them that the rating practice generally known as “price optimization” is prohibited in the state.“Price...

Insurance Journal’s Most Popular East Region Stories of 2015

Dec 31 2015 // As the year 2015 comes to a close, here’s a look at InsuranceJournal.com’s most popular East region news stories of the year. Among the 1,100 stories posted in the East region this year, the following were 50...

Connecticut Warns Carriers Not to Use Price Optimization

Dec 21 2015 // Connecticut has joined the growing number of states that have banned or restricted the practice of “price optimization” in insurance pricing.Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Katharine L. Wade announced that...

Minnesota Bars Use of Price Optimization in Insurance Rates

Dec 7 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...

Connecticut Bans Use of Price Optimization in Insurance Rates

Dec 4 2015 // Connecticut has joined the growing number of states that have banned or restricted the practice of “price optimization” in insurance pricing.Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Katharine L. Wade announced that...

Colorado Commissioner’s Ban on Price Optimization Hailed by Consumer Groups

Nov 24 2015 // An official bulletin issued by Colorado Insurance Commissioner Marguerite Salazar to insurance companies that prohibits insurance companies banning price optimization techniques in rating customers, is being praised by a...

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...