The insurer has partnered with Canary, provider of home monitoring technology, to offer connected home services and discounts.

EZLynx, Haven Life and 10 others will present innovative and disruptive ideas at ACORD2015 and compete for $25,000 prize.

As the two companies consolidate IT, their valuable and voluminous data will revolutionize their risk assessments and customer interactions, industry experts say.

Between now and the effective date of the merger, there will be a lot of planning focused on efficiencies and platform rationalization, cloud, SaaS, data management/stores, analytics and more.

To boost efficiencies and innovation, global insurers are expected to increase IT spend to more than $100 billion in 2015, but how does this forecast translate for the insurance world?

The companies' complementary, rather than competitive, risk management practices can leverage technology to get a clearer picture of risk for insurance carrier clients.

P&C carrier intends to modernize infrastructure and processes for its commercial business lines, simplify operations and enhance customer service.

As the FAA has simplified commercial drone licensing requirements, insurers have embraced the technology for claims, underwriting and customer service applications. INN's Senior Editor Chris McMahon reports.

Half of surveyed software developers don't feel they can work with the Internet of Things. Can insurers take the lead?

Experiment, but be careful of expensive, enterprise installations that are hard to extract later, and understand these types of projects can be more transient than other enterprise software.

Summer vacation is a great time to recharge your body -- and your mind. To achieve that latter goal, check out these 15 must-reads, which we culled from the Society for Information Management, plus faculty and administration members from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. Here’s the lineup and a description of each tome.

Automatic Labs will use the latest round of funding to expand its developer platform and driver application offerings.

Paul Holden joins the third-party administrator after several stints at claims technology companies.

XL Catlin's newest breach response partners include computer forensics services providers and law firms.

With the Supreme Court affirming that the Affordable Care Act’s current structure won’t change, health insurance IT pros can focus on other pressing areas.

A Novarica survey finds insurers excited about the potential for several big data pools to impact the underwriting process.

Optimizing reinsurance cost is important to mid-market P&C insurers with growth ambitions. Tom Brock, AVP for Motorists Insurance, explains how the company tacked the challenge head on.

The telematics-only insurer is adding states and has opened an East Coast office.

Each hurricane season puts CAT models to the test, with potentially billions of dollars riding on the accuracy of these models. The key to developing effective CAT modeled loss estimates is accurate, high-quality data.

California was home to seven of the top 10 hot spots.