Data and information management

Insurers, more so than companies in other industries, are now data companies that need to adjust IT talent and operations as soon as possible.

Platform designed to enable insurers to control appetites by state, line of insurance and SIC in real time.

Risk Analyzer Homeowners product enhanced with by-peril rating rules, which have been approved in 13 states.

New component from the analytics provider is designed to provide homeowners insurers with more policy-level information and underwriting certainty.

Disaster recovery and business continuity plans can lure companies into a false sense of security; there's only one way to make sure your business is prepared.

With the business intelligence product, the broker expects to be able to drill down into its data while analyzing the business from many different perspectives.

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.