Chris McMahon

The partnership is intended to help insurers extend connectivity with brokers and agents.

The insurance-specific platform is intended to help insurers uncover and operationalize data assets and deploy pre-integrated analytics solutions.

The new distribution program is intended to help minimize the cost and risks associated with participating in the insurance aggregation site.

OdometerConfirm automatically collects, verifies and transmits VIN and mileage data.

Michael Tipsord, State Farm president and chief operating officer, will succeed Edward B. Rust Jr. as chief executive officer in September.

The P&C insurer is using Sapiens Reinsurance to increase the efficiency of its reinsurance business and related processes and improve data accessibility.

For insurers, third-party data presents new opportunities, but regulators need to catch up, says Alyssa Pei, partner at A.T. Kearney.

IoT-platform and data-analytics vendors will collaborate on home, auto and health applications.

The professional services firm intends to offer data and analytics products and services to customers and deliver 100 data and analytics jobs to Dublin, Ireland.

American Family Insurance has several initiatives around big data, including programs for more intensive testing and efforts to leverage unstructured data from claims notes, says Justin Cruz, strategic data and analytics VP.