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A PwC report asserts that technology is both improving and introducing greater risk into insurers’ actuarial models.

The key to big data success is establishing good practices around strategic planning and operations, according to AXA’s Jackie Morales, managing director and head of Life Operations, and Louis DiModugno, the firm’s chief data and analytics officer. The two executives, who spoke at this week’s SMA Summit insurance technology conference, recommended the following actions be taken to ensure those methods are put in place.

Everyone is talking about the digital experience, but what does it really mean to go digital?

All 36 independent BCBS companies will contribute to the association’s data management system, creating the healthcare industry’s largest single data resource.

Though pre-existing conditions can't be used to deny coverage, the use of prescription data is still widespread in the insurance industry, and privacy advocates are pushing back.

The property, casualty and marine insurer is trialing a predictive analytics program to provide targeted customer service for hundreds of thousands of accounts.

The move continues a hot insurance M&A environment.

A data model, warehouse, and analytics are included in the implementation.

The investment comes at a time when insurers are increasingly interested in venture capital, the aggregation channel, and selling commercial insurance online.

Seeking to bolster innovation and analytics-driven decision making, the auto insurer will make nearly 300 new tech hires.

Insurers must recognize that for some consumers, offering value in exchange for their data is a key attraction.

There have been rumors of divorce, but this aging couple is more likely to renew its vows.

Texas-based P&C will deploy SaaS solutions from One, Inc. to boost retention while streamlining internal business processes

Swiss insurer Zurich, grappling with a surge in claims, abandons a $8.7 billion offer for RSA Insurance.

With the industry moving headlong toward digitalization, those insurance hubs will increasingly become technology hubs as well.

Insurance CIOs need to be communicators and story tellers as well as effective managers.

IoT in insurance will allow the industry to move toward “casual analysis”: what are the true causes of loss and in what interventions can be undertaken to avoid them?”

Fitness device maker Fitbit now will enter into HIPAA business associate agreements with corporations, health plans and self-insured employers that want to offer its wellness platform to employees.

A new government audit reveals widespread failures by the federal agency charged with managing the private contractors who built healthcare.gov.

Research indicates that insurers looking to jump-start usage-based insurance programs should start by courting millenial consumers.