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How Much Will Drivers Pay for High-Tech Devices?
Jan 5 2015 // A majority of U.S. drivers are willing to pay as much as $1,499 to have high-tech entertainment and safety devices in their vehicles as consumers demand more connectivity, according to a Harris Poll. Back-up cameras, USB...
Technology Dominates Texas-Based Group’s Fraud Predictions for 2015
Dec 17 2014 // Technology will give fraudsters an edge in 2015, but it will also provide new tools for organizations and investigators, according to three experts from the Austin, Texas-based Association of Certified Fraud Examiners...
Allstate Realigns Customer Units; Promotes Winter, Other Executives
Dec 17 2014 // The Allstate Corp. announced organizational and leadership changes in its personal lines management, agency distribution, multiple-customer operations and technology that CEO Thomas J. Wilson says prepare the company to...
Antitrust Concerns End Verisk Bid for Rival EagleView Technology
Dec 17 2014 // Verisk Analytics Inc. scrapped a planned $650 million takeover of EagleView Technology Corp. after antitrust regulators said the deal would give the company too large a share in the market for aerial images used by...
Insurance Tech Firms Majesco, Cover-All to Merge
Dec 16 2014 // Insurance tech-company Cover-All Technologies plans to merge with rival Majesco, a deal that will create an operation with $100 million in annual revenue and a global reach. Majesco (formerly MajescoMastek) founder and CEO...
Delay in Drone Rules Jeopardizes Research, Competitiveness, Congress Told
Dec 12 2014 // Commercial drone flights are taking off in other countries while the U.S. lags behind in developing safety regulations that would permit unmanned aircraft operations by a wide array of industries, witnesses told a House...
WGA in Boston Names Talmanson to Lead Technology and Cyber Risk Practice
Dec 11 2014 // William Gallagher Associates (WGA) in Boston has appointed Michael Talmanson as leader of the firm’s Technology and Cyber Risk Practice. Talmanson is a vice president who has been with the firm for 10 years. As a...
High Cost Hinders Progress of Carbon Capture As Climate-Change Fix
Dec 9 2014 // Scientists know only two credible ways to prevent temperatures from rising to dangerous levels: stop burning fossil fuels or capture and bury the carbon dioxide byproduct before it gets into the atmosphere. The second...
Agency Groups Give Independent Insurance Agents ‘Big Agency’ Edge
Dec 1 2014 // Some believe the independent insurance agent may soon be on the endangered species list. Tighter margins and pressure from insurance carriers to meet increasingly higher production demands are putting the squeeze on every...
Program Market a Target for Expansion, Good & Bad
Dec 1 2014 // Market Outpacing Overall P/C Industry The program insurance business market enjoyed its third consecutive year of growth in 2013 and appears on track to continue its expansion. However, while program business is attracting...
Technology Firm iPipeline Weghing IPO; $500 Million Value Possible
Nov 6 2014 // Internet Pipeline Inc., which makes technology used by insurance companies to manage customers, data and pricing, is exploring a sale or initial public offering, people with knowledge of the matter said. The company, which...
Aon Hewitt’s CIO Named on Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders’ List
Nov 4 2014 // Aon plc, the provider of risk management and human resource consulting and outsourcing, announced that Matthew Heckler, chief information officer for Aon Hewitt, was named to IDG’s Computerworld Premier 100 IT...
Workers’ Comp Writers Using More Mobile Device Apps, Other Technology
Nov 3 2014 // Workers’ compensation insurers are increasingly turning to mobile device applications and other technology innovations in their bid to remain a force in the industry and serve their clients, Novarica determined in a...
ITC Joins IIABA’s Agents Council for Technology
Oct 27 2014 // Carrollton, Texas-based Insurance Technologies Corporation (ITC) is the newest company partner of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America’s Agents Council for Technology (ACT), the agents’...
Technology Firms Having Success Against ‘Patent Trolls’
Oct 27 2014 // For two decades, companies that buy software patents to sue technology giants have been the scourge of Silicon Valley. Reviled as patent trolls, they have attacked everything from Google’s online ads to Apple’s...
XL Adds 3 Underwriters to Cyber & Technology Risk Unit in New York
Oct 20 2014 // XL Group’s Cyber and Technology business unit has added three underwriters, Sean Donahue, Elissa Doroff and Richard Schulz, to its New York-based team. Donahue joins XL Group from Dewitt Stern Group where he most...
Marsh to Acquire Flood Insurance Technology Firm Torrent
Oct 20 2014 // Insurance broker Marsh has agreed to acquire Torrent Technologies Inc., which serves Write Your Own (WYO) insurers participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Torrent’s approximately 100 employees...
New Technology on Vehicles Is Working to Reduce Crashes
Oct 20 2014 // Autonomous or “driverless” cars generate a lot of media buzz because of the public’s fascination with new technology and what vehicles may be like in the future. Yet, there’s a revolution underway...
Large Agencies More Optimistic About Future Growth: Vertafore Study
Oct 17 2014 // Optimism over the future growth potential of independent agencies ties closely to the size of the independent agency, with larger agencies feeling more optimistic about future growth than their smaller counterparts,...
Weather Tracking Firm Receives Patent on Storm Warning Technology
Oct 15 2014 // Earth Networks Inc., a Maryland company that provides weather-tracking services, has received a patent on a technology that can be used to track storm cells. Patent 8,836,518 covers a method that uses lightning-flash rates...
