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One-third of organizations are planning to adopt big data in the next 12 months, study finds.

The Munich Re subsidiary has bought Meshify outright, following a strategy of making investments in other IoT companies.

The upgrade will provide Midwest Builders’ Casualty with easier integration capabilities of other third-party vendor technology.

More than half of businesses currently require employees to complete privacy training

The company has promoted Joel Kneisley to the top tech position.

Evacuations could push storm damage to $10 billion to $15 billion mainly in losses related to economic disruption.

Brad Breau joins Tokio Marine's HCC unit as CIO.

The Silicon Valley organization is connecting insurance technology startups with carriers.

The mix of vehicles with autonomous and semi-autonomous features, and the evolution of the artificial intelligence systems guiding the automation, mean insurers are in for a long period of change.

It may be surprising that there was automated underwriting 25 years ago.

The insurer has expanded in the U.S. and abroad, looking to underwrite more efficiently using big data and technology.

Native American-focused insurer completes cloud deployment of new core suite

Hugh Tamassia is charged with building out the insurer's IT infrastructure.

Company revenues, however, are expected to increase, study finds.

Insurer's conversion to Salesforce prevents end users from having to improvise ways to cobble together data.

The workers' compensation insurer implements new underwriting and billing tools.

Verisk Insurance Solutions joins Guidewire PartnerConnect and augments the software provider's policy admin system.

The surplus lines insurer has selected new software for Insurity and its subsidiary Oceanwide.

Commercial insurer's tech leader talks underwriting transformation, data center strategy, and what insurers can learn from startups.

The companies announced integration for P&C forms.

Guidewire ClaimCenter will replace the mutual insurer's previous third-party claims management system.

The pay-per-mile insurer has rolled out new claims and document management technology at the same time it announces acquisition and new funding round.

The Ohio insurance company will modernize using Innovative Computer Systems' cloud-based platform.

The European Insurer continues its longstanding relationship with the vendor.

New Mexico Mutual has selected Valen Analytics’ data, analytics and predictive modeling suite to improve underwriting performance, the company recently announced.

Next-gen technologies can be combined in several ways to deliver a top-notch digital experience, says Silicon Valley Insurance Accelerator CEO.

Oracle is stepping up efforts in cloud-based technology as it rolls out new products and acquires other companies to cater to the increasing number of customers that prefer to buy computing, networking and storage capabilities via networks from large providers.

The workers' compensation insurer found success with Valen Analytics software.

Health insurers should provide doctors with raw claims feeds and aggregated reports, industry group recommends.

Half of IT leaders surveyed rarely verify the validity of certifications claimed by workers or job candidates, TEKsystems finds.

The specialty insurer deploys eleven different personal lines products on its new platform, in three different states.

As some insurers cling to the classic “if ain’t broke, don’t fix it theory”, IT executives face added pressure to update core.

The new regulations will apply only to banks and other financial services companies licensed by the state of New York.

Vulnerability to ransomware will only get worse as organizations invest more in cloud-based applications, report finds.

The commercial insurer works with Fluttrbox to access a network of drone operators across the country.

The Ohio-based P&C insurer adopts One's ProcessOne software.

With the arrival of autonomous cars soon approaching, insurers hustle to create new products that align with new consumer bases.

Security issues and cost overruns persist in a number of enterprise deployments of mobile devices and applications.

Linda Mantia is tasked with developing Manulife's corporate strategy and overseeing its innovation portfolio.

The launch follows other insurers backing Trov's technology abroad.

Vendor adds IMS, maker of DriveSync connected car platform, to PartnerConnect program.

The companies have allied to produce a cloud-based core systems suite for Canadian insurers.

Secure configurations of devices and improved patch management can limit the risk, and those steps are crucial because many IoT devices were created with low cost taking priority over security.

The insurer deployed several drones as part of a test of the technology following a South Texas hailstorm.

The storm is forecast to hit northwest Florida, a region of the state with lower insured property value,

The vendor wasn't aware its systems were compromised until four months after the hack.

About half of end users surveyed said their organizations would accept more risk to corporate data in order to maintain productivity.

Insurers are responding to the increased frequency and complexity of cyber threats by inadvertently putting higher security burdens on customers when they release new digital tools.

As Hurricane Harvey bears down on the Texas coast, a look back at other storms that put the industry to the test.

The insurer learned on June 27 that contact sheets used for sales purposes had been accessed and “possibly viewed.”

Effective immediately, Richard Lowery will oversee the insurance holding company's information technology strategy.

NYSIF will utilize PatTech's cloud-based platform to provide real-time payment processing for customers.