All the headlines from our Data Driven Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 22 2022 // A lot has changed in the world of automation since Apple first launched its virtual assistant, Siri, on October 4, 2011. It’s a date that musician, actress, and public speaker, Susan Bennett, remembers well because...
Jun 17 2022 // The winners of the seventh annual Innovation in Insurance Awards excelled in customer focus, creative applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation as well as sustainability, according to the awards’...
Jun 2 2022 // Arturo and ICEYE Offer Near Real-Time Flood, Property Damage InsightsProperty analytics firm Arturo and sensor data provider ICEYE hope to change what’s possible with insurance response to flood events. ICEYE’s...
May 24 2022 // A data breach at the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) exposed confidential information of 1.8 million Texans for nearly three years, according to a brief from the Texas State Auditor’s Office (SAO).The audit...
May 18 2022 // Munich Re is aiming to enhance acceptance of artificial intelligence (AI) with its new CertAI validation service, which provides objective validation that AI systems are trustworthy.Companies from a variety of industries...
May 10 2022 // Virginia-based direct-to-consumer personal lines insurer Elephant Insurance reports that it experienced a cyber incident beginning in late March and as of April 25 its review had been able to identify consumers whose data...
May 9 2022 // With wildfires becoming bigger and more destructive as the West dries out and heats up, agencies and officials tasked with preventing and battling the blazes could soon have a new tool to add to their arsenal of prescribed...
May 4 2022 // InsuredMine and HawkSoft Integrate Agency Sales and ManagementInsurance agency sales automation software firm InsuredMine and agency management technology firm HawkSoft have released two-way API integration between their...
Apr 11 2022 // Old school vs. new school. Every so often, a debate echoes down the corridor of time as the disrupters of the status quo burst on the scene with novel ways of doing things, while the established players cling to the tried...
Apr 6 2022 // A data breach at the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) early this year affected approximately 1,800,000 Texans, according to the Data Security Breach Reports from the Office of the Attorney General.TDI announced in March...
Apr 4 2022 // Empathy isn’t a word small business owners typically associate with insurance companies. But that doesn’t mean empathy isn’t important to policyholders. Quite the opposite: Empathy demonstrated by...
Mar 29 2022 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Tuesday said it will review whether startup technology firm Pony.ai complied with government reporting requirements for driverless crashes.Pony.ai earlier this...
Mar 25 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) became aware of a security issue on January 4, 2022 with a TDI web application that manages workers’ compensation information. TDI immediately took the application offline,...
Mar 25 2022 // For the second time this month, a personal auto insurance giant devoted an investor conference to the topic of rate hikes, with Allstate executives also assuring listeners the carrier has various other tools to return to...
Mar 18 2022 // A group of ransomware hackers used a variety of techniques to try breaching hundreds of companies last year, exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows and using artificial intelligence technology to...
Mar 7 2022 // Auto insurance pricing is complex, challenging carriers to deliver competitive rates that effectively balance risk with profit potential.Fortunately, the evolution of telematics has streamlined the pricing process to...
Feb 25 2022 // With unfavorable development and product mix changes propelling fourth-quarter and full-year loss 2021 ratios into the 90s—up 20 points over comparable 2020 periods—Lemonade guided shareholders that results will get...
Feb 7 2022 // Insurers are getting a larger share of suspicious claim referrals from fraud-detection technology and are increasingly using artificial intelligence to sift through data, according to a new study by the Coalition Against...
Feb 7 2022 // For at least the past couple of decades, it seems that in just about every contract, the upstream party wants to be an additional insured (AI) on the downstream party’s insurance. Most commonly, the request is for AI...
Jan 31 2022 // Insurers are getting a larger share of suspicious claim referrals from fraud-detection technology and are increasingly using artificial intelligence to sift through data, according to a new study by the Coalition Against...