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Liberty Mutual joins State Farm, Travellers and other insurers that have won exemptions to use drones for property inspections.

Claims is the perfect place to test emerging technologies, then build upon that foundation to truly reinvent the claims process.

The insurer has selected BT to consolidate, modernize and manage internet connectivity, wide area and local area networking, telephony and more.

The company says its fingerprick tests are as accurate as those done with blood drawn from a vein, and cost a fraction of its competitors’.

The company’s Electronic Inspection Reports help them speed up the application process and improve the customer experience – using big data.

Sure, big data can be overwhelming. To help simplify the conversation within your organization, here are 10 priorities for big data management – care of TDWI Research.

Payers have not been engaged in HIE development, despite the fact that their buy-in and active participation is vital to realizing the full benefits industry-wide, study says.

It’s not often one gets a chance to revisit a past development effort, but it’s just that kind of unique opportunity that makes one’s development life just a little bit sweeter.

The smaller insurer’s hard work on customer and provider engagement technology has been cited as a key reason for Aetna’s interest and acquisition.

Anthem’s deal for Cigna would give the companies more scale in commercial coverage, and Anthem has also said that Cigna’s Medicare Advantage business is appealing.

There’s no denying that there are a few exciting use cases of insurers truly leveraging big data, but it’s still extremely limited.

The E&S insurance holding company will customize and brand the mobile applications for three of its subsidiaries.

The insurer has partnered with Canary, provider of home monitoring technology, to offer connected home services and discounts.

EZLynx, Haven Life and 10 others will present innovative and disruptive ideas at ACORD2015 and compete for $25,000 prize.

As the two companies consolidate IT, their valuable and voluminous data will revolutionize their risk assessments and customer interactions, industry experts say.

After the busiest quarter for insurance dealmaking in at least 12 years, the magnitude of this latest takeover is going to drive even more “M&A fever” across the industry, according to analysts.

The combined company will have around $40 billion in annual revenues, which elevates it to a key global player and should allow for some economies of scale.

Between now and the effective date of the merger, there will be a lot of planning focused on efficiencies and platform rationalization, cloud, SaaS, data management/stores, analytics and more.

Ace will own 70 percent of the company after the transaction closes, and Greenberg will lead the combined insurer, the companies said Wednesday in a statement.

To boost efficiencies and innovation, global insurers are expected to increase IT spend to more than $100 billion in 2015, but how does this forecast translate for the insurance world?