Data and information management

Many industry reports say carriers are investing in underwriting technology, but will all of these investments benefit underwriters?

CDOs will become universal as organizations realize that big data is too specialized and too much of a responsibility for the CIO or CTO.

A unified, comprehensive platform can help underwriters perform their jobs more efficiently — and profitably.

The addition of property slope and site access data improves 360Value replacement cost estimates, company says.

Time will tell if the Halbig decision remains viable. But in the meantime, a new level of uncertainty has been injected into the process.

VIDAFlow is designed to coordinate the stream of information and synchronize the data between system components.

Financial returns continued to improve; Ward's 50 companies, which include Aetna, Great American Life, Liberty National Life and others, produced a 21.8-percent statutory return on average equity from 2009 to 2013.

Continually building trust and credibility in the data is the key to a successful data warehouse.

The proliferation of algorithms and data sources is enabling insurers such as Farm Bureau Financial Services and Bankers Insurance Group to write more business and be more selective while improving the customer experience and profitability.

The next phase of personal cloud will impact mobile, wearables, networking and cloud providers.

The agreement covers Liberty Mutual Insurance’s potentially volatile U.S. asbestos and environmental liabilities, as well as commercial insurance’s workers’ compensation liabilities.

Experts explain how organizations can evolve to become analytics-driven.

The bill, passed 93-4 today in Washington, now goes to the House, where Republican leaders propose cutting back the reimbursement for attacks involving conventional weapons.

ABI Research predicts that cloud platforms will generate $3.6 billion in mobile enterprise application revenue by 2019.

Revenue rose 7 percent, led by the company’s Optum unit, which has been credited with helping to fix Healthcare.gov.

Insurers actually have more data analytics resources than other industries.

The agreement, which will result in more than 100 industry-specific enterprise apps, will significantly change how banking, healthcare, insurance and other markets operate.

Mobile Sales Agent, Mobile Underwriter and Mobile Claims Adjustor are among the enterprise solutions scheduled for release.

Development and operations teams are under more pressure than ever to deliver software faster, more efficiently and at higher levels of quality, according to Enterprise Management Associates.

New functionality includes non-catastrophe risk analysis and an underwriting mode.