Law and regulation

Old Mutual Group Ltd. plans to make acquisitions within the next five years to boost its market share in the West Africa region, where insurance penetration still has significant headroom for growth.

As regulators and insurers work to understand the level of regulatory oversight that is needed for AI innovation, there is a path forward by looking to the recent past. The massive 2015 breach of Anthem’s customer data was a catalyst moment for insurance regulators and led to the Insurance Data Security Model Law now being adopted across the U.S. In this piece, former insurance regulator Jillian Froment lays out five core goals common to AI and cybersecurity that could accelerate the adoption of AI regulation.

Future automobiles will likely need to include passive technology to monitor for driving under the influence and automatic emergency braking.

Insurtech says it hopes to get credit scores out of the underwriting process by 2025.

With the location tracking setting turned off, the Alphabet Inc. unit collects information deceptively through other user settings, according to a lawsuit.

Growing scrutiny of civil authority clauses and what constitutes property damage means the industry is likely to face more pushback.

Several insurers in Maryland and Virginia are seeking double-digit percentage increases in monthly costs for individual medical plans in 2019.

The platform aggregates external data on new business and applications into a single repository to sure up enterprise reporting to regulators.

Despite a harrowing surge in traffic fatalities, drivers appear to be getting worse at avoiding mobile-phone distractions, study finds.

Car accidents are rising, and with them, insurance losses. Here's how carriers can adjust.