Data and information management

Market conduct exams, privacy and data protection rank at the top of insurers' regulatory concerns, according to a recent survey.

Recognition of IT's strategic importance is growing, but so is dissatisfaction with its effectiveness, according to our eighth annual survey on business and technology strategy.

The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, which ran from June through November, was the first since 1994 with no major storms.

Lumeta Corp. has integrated its IPsonar and ESI products with the Allgress' Insight Risk Management Suite.

The partnership will provide insurers with insight into driving records.

The platform now is designed to be a probabilistic loss estimation tool generating exceedence probability curves, probable maximum losses and average annual losses.

Having established core capabilities last year, chief risk officers now are focused on making core processes and tools work better, according to Ernst & Young survey.

By 2020 IoT product and service suppliers will generate incremental revenue exceeding $300 billion.

Peter Skerlj brings more than 17 years of experience to the role.

ROI is often too difficult to explain in dry techie terms.

The insurer's usage-based insurance program could next leverage GPS, smartphones and OEM telematics hardware, company says.

Without adequate storage, there is no big data.

Working together, agents and carriers can realize data validation, faster turnaround, no month-end reporting and other straight-through processing benefits.

The vast majority of insurers report positive impact on bottom line, but a survey by Towers Watson finds applications and adoption rates vary substantially by line of business and insurer size.

Insurer will use the software to to better understand its customers and improve pricing management capabilities for its Safe Driver auto insurance line.

The usage-based insurer adds new feature to its app to help San Francisco customers avoid parking tickets; says other markets will soon follow.

IT is evolving from simply responding to technology requests to helping shape aspects of business strategy, according to research from consulting firm Protiviti.

However, gaps exist between business' and IT's expectations, definitions and applications, according to Strategy Meets Action.

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