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With Progressive Insurance’s recent patent loss to Liberty Mutual Insurance, insurers are running out of reasons for not pursuing leading edge technologies, such as telematics and usage-based insurance, industry experts say, and recent changes in patent law are favoring those who challenge patent holders.

More than 80 percent of healthcare organizations have been compromised by cyber-attacks in past two years, according to KPMG.

Businesses have traditionally delivered complex documents to their customers using print delivery or electronics of the same printed output. This approach is not ideal for the mobile world where this highly regulated content must be viewable, actionable, and compliant across all of the devices that consumers use today.

Coventry First LLC illegally marked up prices on hundreds of investments that bet on when people would die, an American International Group Inc. unit said at the start of a fraud trial in New York.

Which cities are attracting the most Internet of Things (IoT) companies? Here’s the answer, according to IoT Analytics – which has a database that tracks more than 2,000 IoT businesses.

Allstate’s Drivewise Mobile application now features Allstate Rewards, which safe drivers now can use to earn points for deals on merchandise, gift cards and local offers, regardless of whether they have an insurance policy with Allstate.

Fleets are interested in adopting usage-based insurance programs, but aren’t being reached by carriers, according to Lexis-Nexis research.

Organizations are formalizing their use of big data and the capability should be core by 2019, Ovum reports.

To combat security issues, most organizations still depend on alerts and actual incidents. But that approach can lead to faulty data analysis.

The UK-based Insurance aggregator has launched a point-of-quote fraud detection and prevention service that combines its customer and quote database with Iovation’s Risk Solution, which assesses the likelihood of based on the current and past behavior of a smartphone, tablet or laptop.