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Verisk Expands Casualty Analytics Capabilities With UK Acquisition
Verisk Analytics now owns Arium, a British company focused on liability risk modeling and decision support. Neither side disclosed financial terms, but the acquisition is the latest in a series of ...
Carrier Management’s Top 10 2016 Features: Leadership, Disruption and More
Today's Carrier Management newsletter is the first of 2017. But before we look ahead, here's a look back at our top 10 features of 2016. These stories feature CEOs and executives giving invaluable ...
Xceedance Opens Operations Center in Poland
Xceedance said its new operations center in Poland is open for business. The property/casualty insurance technology, analytics and consulting services provider said the facility is designed to help ...
Two Big Data Companies Merge to Expand Crime-Avoidance Technology
Two companies in the big data realm are planning to merge in a move that will help expand the use of risk-reduction technology that helps users safely navigate high-crime areas. Helios and Matheson ...
XL Catlin Helps Back Embroker, an Automated Broker Startup
XL Catlin's investment arm contributed to a $12.2 million venture-funding round for Embroker, a startup focused on automating the insurance broker experience for small and midsize business owners. ...
Insurer Develops Analytics Tool to Avert Workers Comp Fraud at Onset of Claim
Nearly a quarter of small business owners have installed surveillance cameras to monitor employees and avert workers compensation fraud, according to a 2015 poll by Employers. But organized crime ...
Actuaries, Data Scientists at Odds: Novarica
With roughly one-in-three insurance companies expanding or piloting data science units in 2016, they may be facing an unanticipated problem—friction between their actuaries and data scientists, ...
Gaining Value From Big Data Analytics: What It Takes to Get There
Big data analytics can be immensely valuable for organizations across industry sectors, but for many, achieving that value has been difficult. Progress has been constrained by legacy issues in some ...