Data and information management

How a start-up telematics insurer is allowing U.K. insurers to look at young drivers completely differently.

Latest report from Gartner serves as a call-to-arms and guide for insurers putting off analytics, business intelligence and big data investments.

In a Forrester survey of 90 enterprise customer analytics practitioners, including insurers, social analytics is the most popular analytics program companies are looking to pilot in the next couple years.

Suite of coverage enhancements to be offered through network security and privacy product.

While advances have been made, insurers need to remain vigilant when assessing the cloud security offered by providers.

Free informative app, called WreckCheck, designed to help consumers protect property, identities with accident reports.

During the first half of 2012, 58,523 questionable claims were referred, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.

Michael Palmer will lead the analytics team in Bermuda and help develop the company’s understanding of all aspects of catastrophe risk.

Aviva is looking for 5,000 UK drivers with Android smartphones to test its RateMyDrive app.

Specialty branch within Munich Re adds a front-end risk management and planning component to its data breach coverage.

IT needs to play a critical role when analytics is used pervasively throughout the enterprise, and business has an obligation to communicate expectations and trumpet its success.

CLASIC/2 Version 14.0 introduces the ability to model builder’s risk policies for the AIR earthquake and hurricane models for the United States. AIR designed the updated version to support the policy conditions that characterize commercial insurance, enabling companies to assess catastrophe loss potential from the portfolio level down to the individual location level.

The specialty insurer looks to the claims management software to support its goal of increasing effectiveness and efficiency of payments.

New survey hints that organizational understanding may be more important than appropriate technology products when it comes to gleaning social insights.

Coverage Counselor is designed to help consumers understand how their personal circumstances impact their insurance premium and enable them to compare different levels of coverage.

One way to practically screen for potentially significant threats is to evaluate prospective ones against an insurer's exposure concentrations.

In July, severe drought and heat waves effected great swaths of the United States, causing billions in insurance losses, according to Aon Benefield’s “July 2012 Global Catastrophe Recap.” Up to 64 percent of the continental United States is experiencing at least moderate drought, according to the National Climatic Data Center, and half of all U.S. counties have been declared disaster areas.

The Innovation Group plc released a new version of Insurer Analytics, which includes new functionality for policy analysis, insurance analytics, usability and extract/transform/load (ETL) process. The new version is designed to enable users to measure, monitor and manage and uncover insights and opportunities.

Insurance is among the industries found to have significant scanning requirements due to a continued reliance on paper, according to a recent survey.

A new survey from CompTIA finds more than three out of five companies are adding new types of skillsets to their IT departments to keep up with growing cloud requirements.