Technology & Analytics
If You Don’t Have a CIO on Your Board, You’re in Trouble (and You May Not Even Know It)
It's a widely accepted truism in this new millennium—if not an entirely proven one—that technology drives innovation and innovation drives competitive advantage. Whether or not that's completely ...
Preparing Your Organization for Digital Transformation
There is little consensus in the insurance industry on what exactly is included in "digital strategy." Most insurers typically mean agent portals, customer portals, corporate sites and online ...
Analytics Offers Edge for Insurers Fighting Organized Insurance Fraud Rings
Insurance fraud is estimated to be an $80 billion a year industry, according to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud. In order to combat the crime, which is increasingly committed by organized fraud ...
As P/C Companies Turn to Predictive Analytics, Some Underwriters are Wary
If you're wondering how important predictive analytics is becoming to property/casualty insurance companies, consider this: 56 percent of industry respondents in a new survey said they plan to start ...
Guy Carpenter Launches Next-Gen Canada Flood Model
Guy Carpenter launched its G-CAT Canada Flood Model, which it describes as the first ever probabilistic model for Canada that enables insurers to assess their exposure to flood, Canada's most ...
RMS Releases Latest Europe Windstorm and North Atlantic Hurricane Models
Catastrophe risk modeler RMS has released version 15.0 of its RMS Europe Windstorm and RMS North Atlantic Hurricane Models. Matthew Grant, general manager of models and data at RMS, said the updated ...
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 ...
IBM $3B ‘Internet of Things’ Unit, Weather Co. Alliance to Benefit Insurers
IBM is investing $3 billion to build an "Internet of Things" division aimed at harnessing the massive trove of data collected by smartphones, tablets, connected vehicles and appliances and using it ...