Technology & Analytics
Insurers Ramp Up Wider Big Data Embrace for 2016: Novarica
Insurers appear ready to accelerate their embrace of big data, analytics and other aspects of emerging technology as they head into 2016, Novarica concluded in its third annual report on the matter. ...
Tasks Done by Agents, Underwriters, CEOs Can Be Automated: McKinsey
Machines can take over a chunk of the activities of nearly every one of 750 occupations studied by researchers from McKinsey Global Institute recently—including chief executive officers and several ...
How to Win Big With Predictive Claims Analytics: Six Steps for Insurance Executives
The implementation of predictive analytics is simple and valuable, and it is key to the transformation of claims and legal expenses into valuable assets for insurance companies. Once you implement ...
Back to the Future: How Claims Execs Can Use Analytics to Become Experts on Their Pasts
Claims and legal executives have never felt more pressure to focus on the future. You're constantly being told to innovate. You keep hearing it: If you don't use technology to predict the future, ...
Peer-to-Peer Insurance Startup Attracts Funding from Silicon Valley’s Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital, a California venture firm better known for funding technology or industry game-changers including Apple, Cisco and YouTube, has put its money behind a property/casualty insurance ...
Karen Clark & Co. Releases New U.S. Earthquake Reference Model
Karen Clark & Co. (KCC) released a new U.S. Earthquake Reference Model as part of its RiskInsight open loss modeling platform. The model is based on the latest 2014 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ...
Customer-Centric Strategies Start With Governance: PwC Report
Becoming a more customer-centric insurer isn't simply a matter of finding the right technology, according to a recent PwC report, which asserts that inadequate governance explains why carriers ...
Cyber Attacks Becoming Significant Threat to Insurer Credit Quality: A.M. Best
Insurance rating agency A.M. Best still considers natural catastrophe losses to be the primary threat to the financial strength and credit quality of property/casualty insurers, but cyber-attack ...