Latest Data Driven Headlines
All the headlines from our Data Driven Topic Page, ordered by recency.
How ‘Exposure Data Tracking’ Is Taking Over Personal Lines Insurance
May 12 2017 // Today’s insurers want to be there for their customers—literally. With sensors of various kinds in policyholders’ cars, homes and personal devices, “exposure data tracking” is rapidly becoming a...
Insurance Regulators Exploring Ways to Protect Consumers in Age of Big Data
May 11 2017 // The incorporation of “Big Data” from Internet-based sources is a defining feature of underwriting and rating in today’s property/casualty insurance market. In light of that, the National Association of...
Uber Builds Toronto AI Team, as It Awaits Outcome of Autonomous Car Lawsuit
May 8 2017 // Uber Technologies Inc., in the midst of legal battle with Alphabet Inc. over self-driving car technology, is building a new artificial intelligence team in Toronto to help improve its autonomous vehicle software. The team...
Texas Seeks Property Insurers’ Catastrophe Area Premium Data
May 3 2017 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has issued a special data call to companies writing direct commercial property or business owners insurance in Texas during calendar year 2016, seeking information that would help...
AXA Taps Telefonica’s Benjamins as CDO, Head of Data Innovation Lab
Apr 21 2017 // AXA has appointed Richard Benjamins as chief data officer (CDO) of the AXA Group and head of the Data Innovation Lab (DIL), effective May 2. Benjamins will report to Benoît Claveranne, chief transformation officer (CTO)...
Better Data, Models Expand Private Flood Insurance Opportunities: Actuaries
Apr 20 2017 // As Congress considers reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), it should take into account specific insurance market, technological advances and other developments in weighing its options, according...
Insurers Increasingly Embrace Robots over Humans for Customer Service
Apr 19 2017 // Frustrated with automated answering machines before you finally get to speak with a customer service representative? When it comes to insurance, you’ll just as likely end up dealing with a robot as a human within...
China’s Baidu Plans July Launch of Self-Driving Car Technology
Apr 19 2017 // Baidu Inc. said on Tuesday it would launch its self-driving car technology for restricted environment in July before gradually introducing fully autonomous driving capabilities on highways and open city roads by 2020. The...
State Insurance Regulators Weigh Consumer Protections for Data Collection, Use
Apr 10 2017 // The incorporation of big data from Internet-based sources is a defining feature of underwriting and rating in today’s property/casualty insurance market. In light of that, the National Association of Insurance...
Insurers’ Use of Cell Tower Data to Deny Claims Comes Under Scrutiny
Apr 3 2017 // It took Jaclyn Bentley nearly three years to prove she didn’t burn her house down for the insurance money, allegations she and her lawyer say were born of the junk practice of analyzing cellphone tower data. She was...
Artificial Intelligence, IoT Startups Gaining in Global Insurtech Funding
Mar 31 2017 // Investing in technology-oriented insurance ventures (insurtech) is clearly a global trend and almost half of all the money being poured into them globally is going into artificial intelligence and internet of things...
Robots Could Steal 32% of Jobs in UK Financial Services by 2030: PwC
Mar 24 2017 // Approximately 32 percent of existing UK jobs in financial services and insurance could be automated by robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) over the next 15 years, according to a new study by...
Iowa Researchers Say Big Data May Help Improve Trucking Safety
Mar 20 2017 // Helping drivers avoid congestion would increase productivity and improve safety, according to a team of Iowa State University and industry researchers, who believe a solution is using big data technology. The challenge is...
Willis Towers Watson Launches New Edition of Pricing Software, Radar 3.0
Mar 8 2017 // Willis Towers Watson has launched Radar 3.0, the latest edition of its pricing software, which includes machine learning approaches for greater pricing sophistication. Building on the last major release of Radar in 2016,...
Iowa Researchers Say Big Data May Be Answer to Improve Trucking Safety
Mar 6 2017 // Helping drivers avoid congestion would increase productivity and improve safety, according to a team of Iowa State University and industry researchers, who believe a solution is using big data technology. The challenge is...
8K Louisianans Possibly Impacted by Reinsurance Broker’s Data Breach
Feb 22 2017 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance reported that a reinsurance broker contracted by the Louisiana Health Cooperative (LAHC) has experienced a data breach. As a result, former LAHC policyholder Personally Identifiable...
The Future of Fraud Fighting: IoT and Telematics
Feb 20 2017 // Declining costs, the availability of cloud storage and the rise of telematics will likely increase predictive analytic adoption rates, according to Dan Donovan, assistant vice president of Claims Solutions at Verisk...
Florida School District Hit by Data Breach Affecting 7K Employees Has Cyber Insurance
Feb 15 2017 // Authorities say as many as 7,700 Manatee County school employees are at risk of being victims of a data breach. School officials learned earlier this month that two payroll employees of the school district along...
Why Predictive Modeling Is Gaining as Fraud Fighting Tool
Feb 13 2017 // Declining costs, the availability of cloud storage and the rise of telematics will likely increase predictive analytic adoption rates, according to Dan Donovan, assistant vice president of Claims Solutions at Verisk...
Tech Firms Collecting Data: How Much Do Consumers Know or Care?
Jan 17 2017 // Nearly every technology startup wants the same thing: more data. But in the rush to collect all manner of information about customers, tensions are rising in Silicon Valley over whether such practices amount to a form of...
