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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.

Zurich sees predictive analytics as a critical capability and has been accelerating investments in the technology.

Among its many data-oriented initiatives, CNA is applying big data technology to workers compensation claims and adjusters' notes.

The insurer is using more public data to improve underwriting results and decrease the number of questions the insurer has to ask consumers to underwrite them.

Though changes in the insurance business could lead to disintermediation of traditional distribution methods, USI CIO Stewart Gibson says his company is prepared to compete. Part 2 of 2.

Largest reinsurer in the Middle East signs multi-year license for GEMS economic scenario generator.

Stewart Gibson, CIO of the insurance brokerage, talks about how the changing nature of distribution has impacted IT strategy. Part 1 of 2.

With 10 notable mergers in the insurance IT space so far this year, carriers need to look for signs of stability in tech partners, industry observers say.

Progressive’s “mechanics” will help employees quickly create technology solutions to help with claims, understand driving behavior and improve the customer experience.

As insurers and other enterprises explore the use of drones in their business, commercial lines carriers will have to develop new products to cover the risk vector.

Large P&C insurers are "champing at the bit" to use drones for claims investigation and more.