Latest Automation Optimization Headlines
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How Drone Use Becomes More Challenging When Deploying Fleets
May 3 2019 // Search and rescue crews are already using drones to locate missing hikers. Farmers are flying them over fields to survey crops. Insurers have integrated drones as a part of their disaster recovery efforts. And delivery...
Autonomous Vehicle Regulation Bill Passed by Oklahoma Legislature
Apr 29 2019 // Oklahoma would establish rules regulating how to safely operate driverless vehicles navigating state highways under a bill passed by Legislature that has been sent to the governor’s office. Autonomous vehicles are...
Lloyd’s Innovation Drive Faces Headwinds from Some Brokers, Underwriters
Apr 26 2019 // Lloyd’s of London, the world’s oldest insurer of seafaring vessels, is facing its own perfect storm. Old-fashioned business practices, exposure to natural disasters, competition from rival centers and Brexit...
Automation, Artificial Intelligence Part of Plan for Modernizing Texas Insurance Department
Apr 15 2019 // Becoming the chief insurance regulator of a large and populous state with the second largest insurance market in the country was never in Kent Sullivan’s game plan. But when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asked Sullivan to...
Q&A: Mitchell International’s Hatamian Talks Workers’ Comp’s Tech Transformation
Mar 22 2019 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Mitchell International’s product management and strategy group leader, Shahin Hatamian, recently spoke with Insurance Journal’s Elizabeth Blosfield about how technology has been...
9 Insurance Agency Start-Ups: Why and How They Set Out on Their Own
Mar 22 2019 // What motivates people to take a risk in an industry dedicated to managing risk? New independent agencies are born of various circumstances. Sometimes it’s about seizing an opportunity that comes along; other times,...
Norsk Hydro Cyber Attack Exposes Risks of Global Supply Chain Disruptions
Mar 20 2019 // The ransomware attack crippling one of the world’s top aluminum makers is exposing how crucial sophisticated digital systems have become in the centuries-old industry of turning mined rock into metal...
Why Drivers, Like Pilots, Should Be Trained to Use Autonomous Features
Mar 20 2019 // Should drivers using vehicles with autonomous features be trained on those features before they get behind the wheel? A new paper, “What Do We Tell the Drivers? Toward Minimum Driver Training Standards for Partially...
U.S. Safety Agency Weighs Bids for Putting Automated Vehicles on Roads
Mar 20 2019 // The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday it was seeking public comment on General Motors’ 15-month-old petition seeking approval to deploy a limited number vehicles on U.S. roads without...
Companies Still Learning About Fire Risks Around Robots
Mar 6 2019 // The Andover fire brigade was alerted at 2.34 a.m. About 2 miles across town, a fire had broken out in the early hours of Feb. 5 at a state-of-the-art Ocado Group Plc warehouse. Within minutes, firefighters were tackling a...
UK Online Grocer Ocado Learns Lessons About Robotic Warehouses After Massive Fire
Mar 4 2019 // The Andover fire brigade was alerted at 2.34 a.m. About 2 miles across town, a fire had broken out in the early hours of Feb. 5 at a state-of-the-art Ocado Group Plc warehouse. Within minutes, firefighters were tackling a...
2018 Was Big Year for Robot Employment
Feb 28 2019 // U.S. companies installed more robots last year than ever before, as cheaper and more flexible machines put them within reach of businesses of all sizes and in more corners of the economy beyond their traditional foothold...
How Pricing Insurance for Cars of Future Could Bring Insurers, Carmakers Together
Feb 19 2019 // Dan Peate, a venture capitalist and entrepreneur in Southern California, was thinking of buying a Tesla Model X a few years ago—until he called his insurance company and found out how much his premiums would...
Eating an Elephant: Tales from 9 Agency Start-Ups
Feb 18 2019 // What motivates people to take a risk in an industry dedicated to managing risk? New independent agencies are born of various circumstances. Sometimes it’s about seizing an opportunity that comes along; other times,...
Automation and Workers of the Future
Feb 4 2019 // Automation won’t be replacing the entire workforce but about one-quarter of U.S. jobs could be severely disrupted as artificial intelligence (AI) takes hold in the near future. According to a new Brookings...
Accenture Software Now Does What 40,000 Employees Used to Do
Jan 29 2019 // Accenture Plc, the global consulting firm, will begin selling software and services that it’s already used internally to automate tasks and redeploy about 40,000 workers. The new platform, that’s been five...
Report Warns of Robots Taking Restaurant, Trucking, Clerical Jobs
Jan 28 2019 // Robots aren’t replacing everyone, but a quarter of U.S. jobs will be severely disrupted as artificial intelligence accelerates the automation of existing work, according to a new Brookings Institution report. The...
Lion Air Crash Demonstrates Unintended Consequences of Cockpit Automation
Nov 30 2018 // As Boeing Co. was developing its latest version of the 737 airliner, it discovered the design was slightly more prone to a loss of control. So the company added a computer-driven safety feature — one that is now a...
ACM Launches InsurTech Projects to Streamline Efficiencies
Nov 27 2018 // San Diego, CA, November 27, 2018 –Celebrating 30 years in claims management, American Claims Management (ACMclaims.com) has launched several InsurTech projects in 2018, with more to come in 2019. “In our quest to...
Insurtech Profile: Kordinator Adds Empathy to Automated Customer Service
Oct 22 2018 // Automated customer service is a fact of life. In fact, many people are more comfortable sharing personal details with a machine than with a human. But automation must appreciate that not every customer is a 40 year-old...
