Technology & Analytics
Pinnacle Teaming Up With Carfax on Data Analytics Group for Auto Insurers
Pinnacle Actuarial Resources has teamed up with Carfax Banking & Insurance Group to deliver actionable, data-driven insights to automobile insurance carriers, the two said in a statement last ...
Specialty, Niche Business Lines Are 2018’s Insurance M&A Targets: Conning
Targeted P/C insurance mergers and acquisitions should continue in 2018 after they slowed down to a trickle last year, Conning said in a new report. The predicted M&A behavior for the rest of ...
Insurers Pursuing IT Transformations Must Up Their Recruiting Game
Insurance industry demand for talent in areas such as big data will likely "exceed available supply by a factor of four," according to a new blog posting from McKinsey & Company. That reality ...
Shah Departs as RMS CEO; Silicon Valley Vet White Replaces Him
Hemant Shah is out as CEO of catastrophe modeler RMS, and veteran Silicon Valley technology executive Karen White has been appointed to replace him. It is unclear if Shah, who is also an RMS ...
Pie Insurance Rolls Out First Online Workers Comp Policies in 4 States
Pie Insurance said it is ready to start selling its first workers compensation policies, and the InsurTech startup expects to be operating in 15-20 states by the end of 2018. Policies are slated to ...
Executives On The Move at Erie Insurance, GEICO and Grange Insurance
Erie Insurance named five of its IT leaders to new executive roles. GEIO promoted two rising executives. Grange Insurance appointed a Visa executive to its board of directors. *** Erie Insurance ...
Cyber Insurance Startup Coalition Raises $10M
San Francisco-based insurance startup Coalition has raised $10 million in new financing. The company, which launched in late 2017, sells cyber insurance and offers cybersecurity tools to small and ...
Turn Commercial Drones Into Targeted Weapons? AI Could Help Hackers Do That
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence are raising risks that malicious users will soon exploit the technology to mount automated hacking attacks, cause driverless car crashes or turn commercial ...