All the headlines from our Automation Optimization Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Apr 6 2015 // New York state regulators recently sent a letter to insurers operating in the state, seeking detailed information on their cybersecurity measures.Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of the New York Department of Financial...
Mar 20 2015 // The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) on March 18 sent out letters to hundreds of property/casualty insurers operating in the state, seeking information concerning price optimization.New York joins a growing...
Feb 23 2015 // Back in her high school days, my daughter got to be a pretty darned good field hockey player, eventually became the captain of her team. But in her sophomore year, Regina was still locked in a competition with another...
Feb 23 2015 // Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor has warned insurance companies operating in Ohio against the use of price optimization that can result in unfair discrimination.On Jan. 29 Taylor issued...
Feb 18 2015 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Wednesday issued a notice to property/casualty insurers doing business in California advising them that so-called “price optimization” in rate making is unfairly...
Feb 11 2015 // Government ministers will launch the UK’s driverless car trials in the Royal Borough of Greenwich – the location chosen for one of the Government-backed projects, in which RSA is the insurance partner.The...
Feb 10 2015 // Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor has warned Ohio insurers against the use of price optimization that can result in unfair discrimination.Taylor recently issued Bulletin 2015-01, dated...