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UK Insurer Ageas Uses Artificial Intelligence to Manage Motor Claims

May 19 2017 // UK insurer Ageas has begun to use artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help manage its motor claims in partnership with AI specialist Tractable.In what it describes as “a first” for the UK market, Ageas...

Zurich Insurance Deploys Robots for Personal Injury Claims Handling

May 18 2017 // Zurich Insurance is deploying artificial intelligence in deciding personal injury claims after trials cut the processing time from an hour to just seconds, its chairman said.“We recently introduced AI claims handling...

AIG Agrees to Acquire Hamilton USA, Partner with Two Sigma, Grow Insurtech Attune

May 15 2017 // American International Group Inc. will acquire Hamilton USA as part of a memorandum of understanding with Hamilton Insurance Group and Two Sigma Insurance Quantified that is designed to further their investment in the...

How ‘Exposure Data Tracking’ Is Taking Over Personal Lines Insurance

May 12 2017 // Today’s insurers want to be there for their customers—literally.With sensors of various kinds in policyholders’ cars, homes and personal devices, “exposure data tracking” is rapidly becoming a...

Insurance Regulators Exploring Ways to Protect Consumers in Age of Big Data

May 11 2017 // The incorporation of “Big Data” from Internet-based sources is a defining feature of underwriting and rating in today’s property/casualty insurance market.In light of that, the National Association of...

Uber Builds Toronto AI Team, as It Awaits Outcome of Autonomous Car Lawsuit

May 8 2017 // Uber Technologies Inc., in the midst of legal battle with Alphabet Inc. over self-driving car technology, is building a new artificial intelligence team in Toronto to help improve its autonomous vehicle software.The team...

Texas Seeks Property Insurers’ Catastrophe Area Premium Data

May 3 2017 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has issued a special data call to companies writing direct commercial property or business owners insurance in Texas during calendar year 2016, seeking information that would help...

AXA Taps Telefonica’s Benjamins as CDO, Head of Data Innovation Lab

Apr 21 2017 // AXA has appointed Richard Benjamins as chief data officer (CDO) of the AXA Group and head of the Data Innovation Lab (DIL), effective May 2.Benjamins will report to Benoît Claveranne, chief transformation officer (CTO)...

Better Data, Models Expand Private Flood Insurance Opportunities: Actuaries

Apr 20 2017 // As Congress considers reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), it should take into account specific insurance market, technological advances and other developments in weighing its options, according...

Insurers Increasingly Embrace Robots over Humans for Customer Service

Apr 19 2017 // Frustrated with automated answering machines before you finally get to speak with a customer service representative? When it comes to insurance, you’ll just as likely end up dealing with a robot as a human within...

China’s Baidu Plans July Launch of Self-Driving Car Technology

Apr 19 2017 // Baidu Inc. said on Tuesday it would launch its self-driving car technology for restricted environment in July before gradually introducing fully autonomous driving capabilities on highways and open city roads by 2020.The...

State Insurance Regulators Weigh Consumer Protections for Data Collection, Use

Apr 10 2017 // The incorporation of big data from Internet-based sources is a defining feature of underwriting and rating in today’s property/casualty insurance market. In light of that, the National Association of Insurance...

Insurers’ Use of Cell Tower Data to Deny Claims Comes Under Scrutiny

Apr 3 2017 // It took Jaclyn Bentley nearly three years to prove she didn’t burn her house down for the insurance money, allegations she and her lawyer say were born of the junk practice of analyzing cellphone tower data.She was...

Artificial Intelligence, IoT Startups Gaining in Global Insurtech Funding

Mar 31 2017 // Investing in technology-oriented insurance ventures (insurtech) is clearly a global trend and almost half of all the money being poured into them globally is going into artificial intelligence and internet of things...

Robots Could Steal 32% of Jobs in UK Financial Services by 2030: PwC

Mar 24 2017 // Approximately 32 percent of existing UK jobs in financial services and insurance could be automated by robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) over the next 15 years, according to a new study by...

Iowa Researchers Say Big Data May Help Improve Trucking Safety

Mar 20 2017 // Helping drivers avoid congestion would increase productivity and improve safety, according to a team of Iowa State University and industry researchers, who believe a solution is using big data technology. The challenge is...

Willis Towers Watson Launches New Edition of Pricing Software, Radar 3.0

Mar 8 2017 // Willis Towers Watson has launched Radar 3.0, the latest edition of its pricing software, which includes machine learning approaches for greater pricing sophistication.Building on the last major release of Radar in 2016,...

Iowa Researchers Say Big Data May Be Answer to Improve Trucking Safety

Mar 6 2017 // Helping drivers avoid congestion would increase productivity and improve safety, according to a team of Iowa State University and industry researchers, who believe a solution is using big data technology.The challenge is...

8K Louisianans Possibly Impacted by Reinsurance Broker’s Data Breach

Feb 22 2017 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance reported that a reinsurance broker contracted by the Louisiana Health Cooperative (LAHC) has experienced a data breach.As a result, former LAHC policyholder Personally Identifiable...

The Future of Fraud Fighting: IoT and Telematics

Feb 20 2017 // Declining costs, the availability of cloud storage and the rise of telematics will likely increase predictive analytic adoption rates, according to Dan Donovan, assistant vice president of Claims Solutions at Verisk...