Data and information management

AIG's first-ever chief data officer is focused on building a world-class analytics organization.

Healthy doses of empathy, technology, and patience have helped the chief claims officer turn around the homeowners' insurance company's claims organization.

The company has built a data warehouse and a framework that consist of data access and modeling tools such as SAS, R and new tools like H20, analytics head says.

Cracas has been a champion of the power of predictive analytics not just in risk, but across the enterprise.

Why the worldwide commercial auto manager has her eye on Uber, driverless cars, and more.

Haven Life Insurance Agency, The John Hancock Vitality Program and USAA receive SMA’s 2015 Innovation in Action Award.

Novarica has released a report on insurance IT budgets including the top areas of spending expected this year.

By 2017, more than 50% of analytics implementations will make use of event data streams generated from instrumented machines, applications and/or individuals, the analyst firm says.

Micro and macro technologies, like telematics and big data, are helping insurance companies support new business models.

The newly combined company's data resources are impressive, but analytics leader Jay Rajendra says the talent base is even more so.

Cloud-based, data-driven solutions are giving P&C insurers better tools for quoting catastrophic coverage.

GM is the inaugural member of Verisk Analytics' Telematics Data Exchange. OnStar leader Tyson Becker talks about how the connected car and auto insurance spaces are converging.

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.

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.

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

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.