All the headlines from our Data Driven Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 17 2017 // XL Catlin announced the appointment of Ashish Umre as Accelerate partner, Artificial Intelligence (AI), based in London.Accelerate is XL Catlin’s internal disruption and innovation team, which was established in...
Jul 11 2017 // The chief executive officer of Quandl is on a mission to let insurance companies know that their data is valuable and professional investors will pay them for it. But a lot of insurers are oblivious to that...
Jun 30 2017 // Property/casualty insurance carriers want future federal rules governing driverless vehicles to guarantee insurers “reasonable” access to data from cars with automated driving systems.“The increasing...
Jun 29 2017 // American Integrity Insurance Group (AI), a Florida-based insurance provider, has unveiled a private flood insurance option for homeowners.AI is one of nine Florida-based insurers to offer its own flood program that...
Jun 20 2017 // AXIS Insurance, a business segment of AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd., announced the appointment of Meghan Anzelc, Ph.D., as vice president, Data and Analytics.In this new role, Anzelc, a trained physicist and data scientist,...
Jun 16 2017 // Midwest Employers Casualty has promoted Brian Billings to vice president of Predictive Analytics.As the Midwest Employers Casualty strategy evolved from data acquisition to leveraging data assets, Billings led the effort...
Jun 5 2017 // Today’s insurers want to be there for their customers — literally.With sensors in policyholders’ cars, homes and personal devices, “exposure data tracking” is becoming a competitive imperative...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...