All the headlines from our Data Driven Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 26 2018 // Artificial intelligence is helping improve safety along a stretch of Las Vegas’ busiest highway.The Nevada Highway Patrol says a yearlong partnership between public safety agencies and a startup technology firm...
Nov 21 2018 // A U.S District Court in Florida’s ruling could have wide-reaching effects with respect to an insurer’s duty to defend commercial general liability policyholders in data breach cases resulting from the acts of...
Nov 6 2018 // ICW Group Insurance Cos. has named Eric VonDohlen vice president of data analytics. VonDohlen will oversee the company’s data analytics operations and provide guidance on the curation, maintenance and management of...
Nov 5 2018 // In October 2017, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) adopted the Insurance Data Security Model Bill, also known as the NAIC “Model Law.”NAIC’s “Model Law” seeks to...
Oct 8 2018 // The digital revolution in insurance is about to begin its second act.Having in its first phase used science and technology to inspire a rethinking of insurance that is making insurance easier and more efficient to buy and...
Oct 1 2018 // The auto insurance industry is in the midst of major disruption powered by technology and vibrant new players. Disruption gives way to fresh ideas that can have both profound and positive impacts on our lives and...
Oct 1 2018 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance has issued two Hurricane Florence-related notices to all property and casualty insurers doing business in the state.SCDOI Director Ray Farmer issued an emergency regulation Sept....
Sep 19 2018 // John Hancock, one of the oldest and largest North American life insurers, will stop underwriting traditional life insurance and instead sell only interactive policies that track fitness and health data through wearable...
Sep 17 2018 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance has issued two Hurricane Florence-related notices to all property and casualty insurers doing business in the state.SCDOI Director Ray Farmer issued an emergency regulation Friday...
Sep 17 2018 // Earlier this year, this reporter was walking on Lime Street, the home of Lloyd’s of London, dodging raindrops. She observed a broker, carrying a large blue binder containing documents for an underwriting risk, had...
Sep 7 2018 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance will hold an information session Monday, Sept. 10, on the South Carolina Insurance Data Security Act for state insurance licensees.According to a media release, it will address...
Sep 5 2018 // In October 2017, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) adopted the Insurance Data Security Model Bill, also known as the NAIC “Model Law.”NAIC’s Model Law seeks to establish a guiding...
Sep 3 2018 // The wave of innovation has taken the insurance industry by storm, forever changing organizations, processes and people alike. Risk management telematics are calculating accurate policies for underwriters, big data is...
Aug 23 2018 // When William Zhang’s car insurance was about to expire in March, he didn’t need to look far for renewal options. In the two months before the policy was up Zhang received calls almost daily from insurers trying...
Aug 22 2018 // Global insurance broker Marsh has appointed Andrew Hickman as global head of Data Science within its broader Digital, Data and Analytics Practice. In this newly-created role, Hickman is responsible for advancing...
Aug 22 2018 // As the data insurance agencies and brokerages continues to grow, agency managers are faced with having to answer how, why and where they can successfully analyze and use all of this data.The answer to the “why”...
Aug 17 2018 // ACORD, the global standards body for the insurance industry, has launched an Adoption Toolkit to support the application of data standards for global reinsurance and large commercial risks in the London market.“The...
Aug 17 2018 // You’re crossing the street wrong.That is essentially the argument some self-driving car boosters have fallen back on in the months after the first pedestrian death attributed to an autonomous vehicle and amid growing...
Aug 10 2018 // The nightmare scenario for computer security – artificial intelligence programs that can learn how to evade even the best defenses – may already have arrived.That warning from security researchers is driven...
Jul 16 2018 // Ahead of the recent World Cup in Russia, Lloyd’s of London predicted that France would be victorious. And victorious they were – with a 4-2 win against Croatia on Sunday.Interestingly, Lloyd’s also predicted...