NICB’s Geospatial Intelligence Center Facilitates Tornado Claims In Ohio

Pictures tell our stories, good and bad. For Ronald Bretherick photos after the Memorial Day tornado that ripped through his North Ridge neighborhood show his home of 44 years destroyed.
June 6, 2019 Property Technology Ohio

Inside AIG’s Wearables Pilot

WIth back injuries affecting 1 million workers a year and accounting for 20% of all workplace injuries, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, AIG was looking for a solution.
June 3, 2019 Risk Management Technology Workers' Compensation

How We Can Better Use Technology To Manage Soft Tissue Injury Claims

Soft tissue injuries — generalized sprains, strains and pains — have long been a source of anxiety for workers’ compensation risk managers, as these claims are more susceptible to subjective findings and can quickly become inundated with narcotics and surgery requests.
May 31, 2019 Technology Workers' Compensation

Telemedicine: Last Frontier For WC?

Telemedicine makes it possible for injured employees to reach a qualified clinician from home or the worksite, providing a promising alternative that ensures early treatment.
May 30, 2019 Technology Workers' Compensation

Why Cyber Insurers Can Expect To Make More (And Bigger) Claims Payments

Not only is the frequency of ransomware attacks skyrocketing, attackers are targeting larger organizations and demanding higher ransom payments.
May 29, 2019 Technology

First American May Have Exposed Millions Of Client Records

First American Financial Corp., one of the largest U.S. title insurers, may have allowed unauthorized access to more than 885 million records related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, according to a security researcher.
May 29, 2019 Fraud Technology

The Bitcoin Ponzi Scam That Won’t Go Away

In an industry rife with scams, one cryptocurrency trading startup -- USI Tech -- was paying real dividends on its customers’ investments.
May 24, 2019 Fraud Technology

IBM Watson Beats Humans In Suncorp Claims Assessments

Suncorp ran Watson silently alongside its consultants for six months, with the AI returning the most accurate insurance claims assessments.
May 23, 2019 Technology

Automation Enables Instantaneous Disbursal Of Flight Delay Insurance Claims

Insurance companies are using automation and blockchain to disburse flight delay claims even before they are filed by the passengers.
May 23, 2019 Excess & Surplus Lines Technology

How Computer Vision Is Changing Insurance

The use of drones combined with AI technologies, like computer vision, are allowing many industries to automate or assist with what would have previously been arduous tasks.
May 22, 2019 Auto Property Technology

NTSB: Autopilot Engaged At Time Of Fatal Florida Tesla Crash

A fatal March collision between a Tesla and a semi trailer that bore a strong resemblance to a crash in the same state three year earlier was more similar than initially thought.
May 16, 2019 Auto Liability Technology Florida

Network For Change And Continuous Innovation: Putting Faces To Comp Data

The NCCI Annual Issues Symposium just wrapped up in Orlando, Florida yesterday. This event is somewhat akin to drinking from a firehose, as the information flies in a fast and furious fashion.
May 16, 2019 Technology Workers' Compensation

Why Liability And Reputational Risk Is Changing

Technology is making it easier for consumers and businesses to move money, but it can also create new liability risks, fraud experts warned Tuesday.
May 15, 2019 Liability Technology

How Insurtech Can Revitalize Communities

In mid-April, for the final time, Brian Hemesath took the stage at the Des Moines, Iowa, Global Insurance Symposium to kick off the showcase event for the insurtech accelerator he had stewarded for the past five years.
May 15, 2019 Technology Iowa

Boston Bound: What To Expect At CLM’s 2019 CMPL Conference

This July marks the start of a fully reinvented conference that focuses on cyber, management, and professional liability claims issues—something Andrew Fastow, a former Enron executive who served six years in prison after pleading guilty in 2004 to two counts of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud, knows something about.
May 7, 2019 Excess & Surplus Lines Liability Litigation Risk Management Technology
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