Sensor data

Munich Re's HSB to offer customers a digitized equipment maintenance platform.

Nationwide’s Sarah Jacobs, vice president of personal lines product development, spoke with Digital Insurance about a recent survey on smart home devices and the future of IoT at Nationwide.

Digital Insurance spoke with Angela Orbann, vice president of property, PI product management at Travelers about how technology can optimize a home insurance policy and how artificial intelligence and satellite imagery is helping insurers.

Thiel invested more than $20 million in HySpecIQ LLC, the startup said. The cash will enable the Herndon, Virginia-based company to build and launch two satellites with cameras featuring advanced sensors to peer through solid objects in early 2023.

In other news: Ethos adds board members, new executives; One Inc partners with Mastercard on insurance payments; and Notion, a Comcast company, works with Honey Insurance in Australia.

New technology is aimed at helping businesses that need to be more cost-conscious detect leaks and freezes.

Zesty.ai's platform will be used by the insurer to get more granular imagery of fire-sensitive zones.

Smart devices are giving insurers the ability to address risky issues earlier, rather than reacting to losses. A panel discusses the implications.

Thanks to explosions in data and analytics capability, carriers have more options than ever to avoid leaning on controversial tactics like credit scores.

Novarica survey of more than 100 carriers identifies six digital techs on the rise in pilot and deployment activity.

The wearables company has created the platform for health insurers, employers and healthcare delivery systems.

The number of installed connected devices attributable to commercial insurance is rising quickly, but more traditional mobility items are also part of the strategy.

The ONE Coach platform will use sensor data to identify opportunities for risk-management products tailored to the customer.

The company has invested $40 million and partnered with local universities to encourage homegrown analytics talent.

The insurer gets access to data from participating auto manufacturers, including Mitsubishi.

Survey finds 62% of those ages 18 to 34 would let carriers use third-party data from social, fitness apps and smart-home devices to lower prices

Artificial intelligence, real-time data and social capital can reverse the fate of individuals, families and communities.

Companies that produce hardware designed to detect and mitigate water damage see insurers as natural partners.

The insurer embeds new technologies, such as AI and IoT, into its organization on an ad-hoc basis, rather than developing products separately in a lab and force-fitting them.

By using updated tools to analyze driver behavior, insurers can work with underwriting partners to dig into data and develop personalized coverage.