Smart devices have become a popular topic in the P&C insurance world. Tools like smart thermostats, smoke detectors and water sensors offer the potential to halt property damage before it starts, protecting insurance customers from injury, property loss or both. Yet these devices come with risks.

Nearly six in ten consumers are open to sharing location data and lifestyle information in exchange for decreased pricing in financial products and services.

We are finally beginning to experience a long-awaited revolution in the insurance industry. Historically, insurance has been one of the last and slowest industries to embrace technology as a means of modernization and process innovation.

The former CEO of a Texas community hospital has pleaded guilty to defrauding three health insurers in a pass-through billing scheme involving laboratory services, the Department of Justice said.

Insurance companies are reminding consumers to take certain precautions this year. Daylight Saving Time causes many of us to grumble about losing an hour of sleep, but this year, insurers used the date to remind consumers of other potential risks. They are hoping people will take certain precautions to keep themselves, their families and their properties safe.

Today’s technology news is dominated by articles about the promise of 5G—it was one of the top stories coming out of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. 5G, so named because it’s the generation following today’s 4G, could bring mobile phones information 600 times faster than today’s speeds.

Zion Williamson — college basketball player for the Duke Blue Devils and considered one of the top picks for this year’s NBA Draft — recently suffered a knee injury, sparking questions about whether the rising basketball star has suitable insurance.

It took only 15 minutes inside a Leon County courtroom Wednesday to bring 18 years of mystery surrounding the disappearance of Mike Williams to finality.

New York’s Department of Financial Services (NYFS) has released new guidelines that will allow life insurance companies to use data from customers’ social media posts to determine their premiums, and experts say that these rules could potentially extend beyond New York’s borders.

With the legalization of recreational marijuana, more needs to be done to warn people of the health risks, including psychosis, a speaker told insurance claims professionals Tuesday.

For the first time in history, Americans are more likely to die from opioid overdoses than car crashes, according to a new report from the National Safety Council.

A record $10.3 billion in claims was paid last year by the nation’s long-term care insurance companies, according to the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance.

With a plot that echoes a well-known Hollywood masterpiece, a trial began Tuesday for a Florida woman accused of helping orchestrate the death of her husband in order to secure a massive insurance payout.

Firefighters die in a burning building. … A mother poisons her infant for life insurance. … A sober home plies addicts with drugs for bogus rehab claims. Welcome to the Insurance Fraud Hall of Shame, home of America’s nine most-brazen insurance scammers of last year.

The number of uninsured children in the United States has increased for the first time in nearly a decade, placing it at 3.9 million in 2017, according to a report Thursday from Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families.