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Online Insurance Platforms Foster Both Good and Bad Situations: Geneva Association
Online platforms can foster insurance market transparency and reduce both transaction costs and information asymmetries, factors typically associated with increased competition and societal welfare. ...
Last-Ditch Effort Begins to Pass Self-Driving Car Bill
Key U.S. senators are making a last-ditch effort to win approval of a bill to speed the use of self-driving cars without human controls, but face an uphill battle on Capitol Hill. Staff for ...
Dell Stops Hack Attack on Online Electronics Store, Resets Customer Passwords
Dell Inc said on Wednesday that it reset passwords for all accounts on its Dell.com online electronics store on Nov. 14, five days after it discovered and stopped hackers who were attempting to steal ...
Carrier Predictive Analytics Initiatives: Telling a Clear Story to Agents
This is the fifth in a series of articles by Valen Analytics looking at the hurdles that insurers must overcome to effectively implement and gain value from data analytics programs. Using technology ...
Like Tech Entrepreneurs, Carriers Should Closely Track a Rapidly Changing World
For carriers seeking to innovate and digitize their operations, an awareness of a rapidly changing world and the need to continually adapt to it can help ensure success. Maintaining a strategic ...
Insurers: The First and Next Alternative Data Innovators?
The world is in the middle of a data explosion. The quantity of data being generated and collected is increasing exponentially. Every company is now a data company, obsessively measuring, tracking ...
InsurTech MGA Corvus Nails Down a $10M Series A Financing
Corvus Insurance has secured $10 million in new venture financing, money the InsurTech-focused managing general agent plans to use to jump into additional lines of commercial insurance. Two firms led ...
Startup Understory Raises $7.5M; Produces Weather Data for Insurers, Others
Understory, a producer of weather and related analytics data for insurers and others, raised $7.5 million in new financing designed to help propel an international expansion. The Wisconsin-based ...