All the headlines from our Tech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 20 2018 // As a teenager working for his dad’s construction business, Noah Ready-Campbell dreamed that robots could take over the dirty, tedious parts of his job, such as digging and leveling soil for building projects.Now the...
Mar 20 2018 // The technology behind autonomous vehicles has originated from coders in Silicon Valley, engineers in Detroit and academic researchers in Pittsburgh. Much of it eventually lands on the streets of Arizona, a state...
Mar 20 2018 // Last week, Waymo showed a video of people riding in its self-driving minivans. They thumbed their phones, yawned and one snoozed. The message: Driverless cars are so safe, they’re boring. The clip was meant to drum...
Mar 19 2018 // New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny is planning to retire this summer after 16 years with the New Hampshire Insurance Department. His current term ends on June 11.Prior to his 16 years working as a regulator...
Mar 19 2018 // Advancements in technology are driving continued evolution throughout the insurance industry. From insurtech and telematics to artificial intelligence (AI) and digitalization, the industry continues to face increased...
Mar 19 2018 // Insurance industry technology is experiencing a revolution. While insurance carriers and venture capital firms have been behind much of today’s insurtech innovation, insurance agents and brokers have also jumped into...
Mar 16 2018 // Microsoft Corp.’s investigators concluded that fewer than 1 percent of gender-discrimination complaints made internally were “founded,” according to data unsealed in an ongoing class-action lawsuit.The...
Mar 15 2018 // Marsh has announced that it has joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), an open source blockchain initiative with 400 member companies.The EEA seeks to create open industry standards and frameworks for blockchain...
Mar 13 2018 // In the wait for self-driving technology, cell-phone toting tech bros may have to cede their spot in line to pizzas, Craigslist couches and the mounting ephemera of e-commerce.The future—at least in the near-term—will...
Mar 13 2018 // Flock, a London based startup, has launched Europe’s first “pay-as-you-fly” drone insurance solution.The “Flock Cover” smartphone app provides on-demand insurance for commercial drone pilots...
Mar 9 2018 // This week I added Driving to Distraction, by Esurance, to IJ’s Research & Trends as a resource for discussion around driver safety, whether with family members or clients. The study involved research of over...
Mar 7 2018 // We are grateful for friend of the Academy, Christopher J. Boggs, CPCU, ARM, ALCM, LPCS, AAI, APA, CWCA, CRIS, AINS, Executive Director, Big “I” Virtual University who provided this blog series about autonomous...
Mar 7 2018 // Not so long ago, Hartford, Conn., was widely known as the insurance capital of the world. Today, interest has shifted to technology-led insurance firms, or InsurTechs, raising the question: Where is the InsurTech capital...
Mar 7 2018 // Y-Risk, LLC, a specialty underwriting management company, has been approved as a Lloyd’s coverholder with authority for cyber and technology E&O insurance on behalf of certain Lloyd’s syndicates. Y-Risk is...
Mar 6 2018 // Digital agency Pie Insurance said it is ready to start selling its workers’ compensation policies in four states this month, with a goal of operating in as many as 20 states by the end of 2018.The startup that claims...
Mar 6 2018 // Major automakers on Monday joined forces with tech companies and a variety of interest groups to urge the U.S. Senate to take up, before the end of May, a stalled bill aimed at speeding the deployment and testing of...
Mar 5 2018 // The small business market is big. The U.S. small commercial market represents about one-third of the total commercial lines market and generates between $99 billion and $103 billion in direct written premium, according to...
Mar 1 2018 // As many as two-thirds of the 29 U.S. commuter railroads may not meet a deadline to install an anti-crash technology by the end of the year, according to a report by a government watchdog seen by Reuters.The report by the...
Feb 28 2018 // Driverless cars will be tested in California for the first time without a person behind a steering wheel under new rules that state regulators approved Monday for the fast-developing technology.The regulations are a major...
Feb 28 2018 // Radian Group Inc., a Philadelphia, Penn.-headquartered provider of private mortgage insurance, risk management products and real estate services to financial institutions, has announced two executive appointments.Derek...