CTO / Technology
Insurity Grabs Oceanwide in Bid to Build Bigger P/C Industry Software Provider
A Connecticut company that supplies software, data processing and analysis for property/casualty insurers and agents has snatched up a Canadian rival in a bid to diversify. Insurity said it has ...
Insurers See Impact from Wearables Within Two Years: Accenture Survey
Nearly two-thirds of insurers expect wearable technologies to have a significant impact on the industry, according to a survey in Accenture's annual Technology Vision report. The survey of more than ...
Closing the Gap: How Small and Midsized Insurers Can Leverage the Power of Big Data
The "big data" buzz that dominates so much of the P/C insurance conversation these days may not be as uniformly useful as everyone thinks. In the majority of cases, the usefulness of big data hinges ...
How Technology Advancements Can Help Insurers Compete
Record consumer churn, new entrants to the market and dramatic changes in consumer preferences have created urgent pressures on Property & Casualty and Life insurers. Many are frantically playing ...
Progressive’s BIG Idea on 2015 InformationWeek Top 100 Tech Innovator List
Auto insurer Progressive announced last week that the company has been included on a list of 100 top business technology innovators in the United States, earning the honor for its Business Innovation ...
The Hartford’s CEO Sees Tech Investment Spurring ‘Faster Growth’
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. will continue to invest in technology and software in the months ahead as a part of its growth strategy, Chairman and CEO Christopher Swift said. "We are ...
Open Platform vs. Open Source
Karen Clark noted that her company's RiskInsight "open platform" currently is the only one in the industry already used by insurers and reinsurers. But what about the Oasis framework, launched by 21 ...
Leadership Insight: Karen Clark
Clark on Catastrophe Modeling: "The tricky thing about cat modeling is it is not all about the science and not all about the software. It is about having the right mix and then making sure that ...