Insurance

The supercomputers model environmental data, including measurements from satellites, weather balloons, and oceanographic observations.

Health payers are taking multi-pronged approaches to make the inevitable transition to value-based care, including the expansion of their data & analytics capabilities.

John Yao takes over tech responsibility at the workers' compensation carrier.

The workers' comp insurer will also deploy Oceanwide's agent portal, per the agreement.

The new tool can be used by homeowners seeking up to $1.5 million of coverage for their home and up to $1 million for condominiums.

The platform will allow brokers to offer customized pricing options based on submitted information by customers.

Insurance carriers face threats from physical events, risks tied to liability and “transition risk" from adjusting to a lower-carbon economy, new study finds.

The reinsurer is leveraging Mortality Assessment Technology, generally used in life insurance, to the reinsurance market.

The P&C insurer adds to its initial implementation of Guidewire ClaimCenter in 2010.

Carriers have different measures of success when working with startups, ranging from introducing staff to new technologies to forming strategic partnerships for financial return, according to Novarica.

Slice will develop technology platform to service and process insurance products for on-demand economy.

Take a look at some of the certifications that are paying off for IT pros.

The vendor will manage Atlas' end-to-end billing process using its Billing Decision platform.

The London-based insurer will deploy TigerRisk Partners' analytics capabilities as it enters the property reinsurance business.

Legacy systems are not a Y2K problem – there’s no ticking time bomb.

The company's goal is to offer more payment options, handle higher volume workflows, and enhance billing operations by streamlining and automating processes, it says.

The life insurer attempts to provide customers with a more convenient way to enroll and manage their policies online.

Policyholders will always make questionable choices and exhibit unsafe behaviors, but insurers at least have a running start at reducing frequency or severity of loss.

The insurer is expanding its online offerings to mobile and developing new products for customers' smartphones.

Casey Decker will manage all of FBL's IT efforts and its affiliated insurance companies.