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How Wearable Tech Can Drive Down Workers Comp Claims
As we begin a new year, there's a new way to think about workers comp insurance—a way that goes beyond providing a transfer of risk to utilizing connected technology that helps to prevent risk. ...
JLT Specialty USA Teams With Altumai to Develop IoT-Related Workers Comp Products
JLT Specialty USA, a subsidiary of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group, is partnering with InsurTech startup Altumai to develop products aimed at reducing worker injuries in the food/agriculture industry. ...
Are Wearable Clouds the Next Innovation in Data Storage?
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are exploring the concept of a wearable personal cloud — a fully functioning, yet compact and lightweight cloud computing system embedded into ...
RIMS 2016: Insurers Prepare for Wearables, Automated Vehicles
Imagine sitting at your desk writing a quote for an insurance policy and suddenly the lapel of your coat begins angrily buzzing, snapping you out of a daze and causing you to quickly straighten up ...
Getting Well Soon: The Next Trillion-Dollar Industry for P/C Insurers?
Sleeping on the job has never been a fast track to success, but sleeping on the way to the job may lead to an early and unscheduled retirement. More than 1 in 5 fatal car accidents in the United ...
How Wearable Devices Are Disrupting the Insurance Industry
Nearly 50 years after Captain Kirk began using his wrist communicator on the television show "Star Trek," wearable technology is taking hold. From Fitbit to Google Glass, the technology is ...