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Flood Risk Follows Record Snowfall in Western New York
Lake-effect snow that killed eight people and halted travel across western New York may reach as high as 7 feet in some areas before stopping tomorrow, when temperatures will start to rise along with ...
EBI Platform Combines Telematics With CRM and Marketing Tools
A new telematic platform is being marketed to insurance companies worldwide as "the first permanent communication channel between car insurance companies and their customers." The Event-Based ...
Here’s One Way Insurer CIOs Can Prepare For a Digital Transformation
With insurers facing an ever-increasing use of technology in their daily activities, the pressure is on for chief information officers to anticipate both current and future needs – for the ...
Hold on. My Phone Says I’m Having a Heart Attack: Top Tech Trends Revealed
"We're going to see more changes in the next 25 years than we've seen in the last 100," a futurist told a group of insurance professionals at an industry meeting last week. The pronouncement by ...
Advice From a Futurist
If you think the colors of the triangular yield sign on North American roadways are yellow and black, then you might not be ready to lead your organizations into the future. While futurist Jack ...
Towers Watson: Insurers Benefit from Proactive Claims Handling
Proactive claims handling is crucial to an insurer's bottom line, according to the latest Towers Watson survey of 35 property/casualty claims officers. The main operational goals of the U.S. P/C ...
Report: AIG Wants At Least $450M For Luxury South Korean Hotel
AIG Global Real Estate, a unit of American International Group Inc., is seeking at least $450 million from the sale of a luxury hotel in the South Korean capital, people with knowledge of the matter ...
Toronto, Worried About Safety & Liability, Seeks Uber Shut-Down
Toronto is asking a court to order the mobile car-booking service Uber Technologies Inc. to shut down in North America's fourth-largest city. Uber has been operating in Toronto since 2012 without a ...