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Aon Hewitt’s CIO Named on Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders’ List
Nov 4 2014 // Aon plc, the provider of risk management and human resource consulting and outsourcing, announced that Matthew Heckler, chief information officer for Aon Hewitt, was named to IDG’s Computerworld Premier 100 IT...
Workers’ Comp Writers Using More Mobile Device Apps, Other Technology
Nov 3 2014 // Workers’ compensation insurers are increasingly turning to mobile device applications and other technology innovations in their bid to remain a force in the industry and serve their clients, Novarica determined in a...
ITC Joins IIABA’s Agents Council for Technology
Oct 27 2014 // Carrollton, Texas-based Insurance Technologies Corporation (ITC) is the newest company partner of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America’s Agents Council for Technology (ACT), the agents’...
Technology Firms Having Success Against ‘Patent Trolls’
Oct 27 2014 // For two decades, companies that buy software patents to sue technology giants have been the scourge of Silicon Valley. Reviled as patent trolls, they have attacked everything from Google’s online ads to Apple’s...
XL Adds 3 Underwriters to Cyber & Technology Risk Unit in New York
Oct 20 2014 // XL Group’s Cyber and Technology business unit has added three underwriters, Sean Donahue, Elissa Doroff and Richard Schulz, to its New York-based team. Donahue joins XL Group from Dewitt Stern Group where he most...
Marsh to Acquire Flood Insurance Technology Firm Torrent
Oct 20 2014 // Insurance broker Marsh has agreed to acquire Torrent Technologies Inc., which serves Write Your Own (WYO) insurers participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Torrent’s approximately 100 employees...
New Technology on Vehicles Is Working to Reduce Crashes
Oct 20 2014 // Autonomous or “driverless” cars generate a lot of media buzz because of the public’s fascination with new technology and what vehicles may be like in the future. Yet, there’s a revolution underway...
Large Agencies More Optimistic About Future Growth: Vertafore Study
Oct 17 2014 // Optimism over the future growth potential of independent agencies ties closely to the size of the independent agency, with larger agencies feeling more optimistic about future growth than their smaller counterparts,...
Weather Tracking Firm Receives Patent on Storm Warning Technology
Oct 15 2014 // Earth Networks Inc., a Maryland company that provides weather-tracking services, has received a patent on a technology that can be used to track storm cells. Patent 8,836,518 covers a method that uses lightning-flash rates...
Symposium Panelists Say New Car Technology May Not Lower Insurance Rates
Oct 6 2014 // More cars and trucks are being equipped with cameras, radar, automatic braking and other safety technology that help avoid accidents, but drivers may not see their insurance bills go down anytime soon, experts in the auto...
Knowing Clean Technology Customers
Oct 6 2014 // In the next 10 years, the clean technology market is expected to increase by more than 60 percent to nearly $400 billion worldwide, according to Clean Edge’s Clean Energy Trends 2014 Report – creating an enormous...
Live Webinar on How To Boost Agency Productivity with eSignatures featuring Insurance Technology Expert Steve Anderson
Oct 2 2014 // On October 9, 2014 at 10:00am PDT/1:00pm EDT, HelloSign is hosting a live webinar presented by productivity expert Steve Anderson, a leading authority on insurance technology. San Francisco, CA, October 2, 2014–...
Boston Emerging as Unlikely Battleground for Web-Based Businesses
Oct 1 2014 // A renowned technology hub that is home to some of the country’s top universities, Boston is emerging as an unlikely battleground for web-based businesses like Airbnb and Uber, with some saying more regulations are...
Idaho Techs Behind Infrastructure Protection Digital Library
Sep 30 2014 // Emergency planners say a digital library developed by Idaho researchers has become a critical tool in preparing for major disasters. The Infrastructure Protection Digital Library is a searchable database that gathers and...
Lawmakers Question the Adequacy of Traffic Control After Fire Halts Flights
Sep 29 2014 // The havoc created by a suicidal technician at a Chicago-area flight-control center has some lawmakers asking how a single person armed with gasoline and knives could bring down part of the U.S. air-traffic system. Damage...
Taiym Joins Michigan’s Accident Fund Holdings as CIO
Sep 23 2014 // Lansing, Mich.-based Accident Fund Holdings Inc. has hired Said Taiym as chief information officer. Taiym joins the holding company’s executive team and will be responsible for overseeing information technology...
Duperreault, Reardon and Deutsch Lead Hamilton Re into the ‘Data Analytics’ Future
Sep 22 2014 // If you’re going to successfully operate a relatively new reinsurance company in these troubled times, you better know what you’re doing. Fortunately Bermuda-based Hamilton Re would seem to pass muster. Firstly,...
Prop. 103 vs. Self-driving Cars Revving up in California
Sep 17 2014 // Way back in 1988 it probably seemed like the idea of self-driving vehicles was about as far off as flying cars or hovercraft. That was the year California voters enacted Proposition 103, giving among other things an...
Foreign Accents Drive Smart Cars’ Voice Technology Crazy
Sep 11 2014 // Colin and Rachel Britton have a failure to communicate when they slip into their $95,000 Mercedes GL500. Not with each other, with their car. Its voice recognition system is dumbfounded by their British accents, especially...
2017 Cadillacs to Feature Hands-Free Driving, V2V Technology
Sep 8 2014 // General Motors Co., the largest U.S. automaker, will introduce a Cadillac model in two years that can travel on the highway without the driver holding the steering wheel or putting a foot on a pedal. The 2017 Cadillac...
