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  With Telematics, No More Rearview Mirror

  By Karlyn Carnahan, Thuy Osman  |  May 14, 2013

  Opportunities across the value chain exist for insurers who adopt the technology early, especially now as the main barriers to entry are falling.

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  Why Insurers Should Consider Private Cloud

  By Vivek Gujral  |  April 3, 2013

  The advantages of cloud-based services are rapidly becoming more appealing for insurers, and now is definitely the time to consider all the options. The cloud provides insurers the flexibility to respond quickly to changing market needs and customer demands without additional investments in capital or technology infrastructure. In short, it...

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  Insurers Need to Keep Reinventing Themselves for Sustained Growth

  By Rebecca Amoroso, Sam J. Friedman  |  January 18, 2013

  The P&C industry should benefit in the short term from a recovering economy in 2013, but the longer-term outlook depends on how individual carriers respond to a series of more fundamental challenges.

• R&O Independent Agents & Brokers: Strengthening the Core

  By Melissa Hillebrand, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  December 1, 2012

  With economic growth still fragile, independent agents and brokers focus on core competencies like specialization, building customer trust and recruiting top talent.

• New Data Platform Designed to Increase Reliability of P&C Pricing

  By Staff Writer  |  October 25, 2012

  To meet the demand for more accurate Expected Loss estimates from catastrophe models, Datum Companies announces the release of Eurus, a catastrophic weather predictive platform. Nearly two years in the making and powered by a combination of Big Data analytical technologies—including wavelets, support vector machines, principal components analysis and...

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  Cloud Offers Insurers More than Cost Savings

  By Anil Annadata  |  October 4, 2012

  While the cost benefits of cloud-delivered software are often written about and widely accepted, it’s the additional and new opportunities offered with the cloud—especially the indirect opportunities—that might deliver the greatest benefit to the insurance industry.

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  Big Data = Big Challenge

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 14, 2012

  A great deal of attention is being paid to “big data,” as much of the unstructured data insurers compile is being called these days. Such data, amassed through tools such as telematics and social media, threatens to swamp companies thatdon’t have the infrastructure in place to handle it and the...

• An Apple a Day Won’t Keep Risks at Bay, But These RMs Do

  By Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 14, 2012

  As the health-care industry anticipates a shortage of professionals and prepares for the uncertainties of government reform, risk managers in this sector discuss some of the challenges that lie ahead.

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  10 Tips When Considering Cyber Insurance

  By Rick Kam, CIPP, Jeremy Henley, CHPC  |  March 28, 2012

  In the last of a three-part series, our experts detail how to advise businesses on buying insurance coverage for data breaches.

• MajescoMastek Creates Producer Portal for Elixir System

  By PC360 Staff  |  February 22, 2012

  MajescoMastek, theU.S.subsidiary of global technology solutions provider Mastek Limited, announces the release of the Elixir Distribution Management Producer Self-Service Portal (EDM Producer Portal), an extension and enhancement to MajescoMastek’s Elixir Distribution Management (EDM) system.

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  Educational Article Series: Program Business—From Submission to Finish Line

  By Archie McIntyre  |  November 11, 2011

  In the third part of a series of articles examining program submissions, Meadowbrook's Archie McIntyre reviews the finalization of the due diligence process.

• Insurance IT All-Stars: Shining Brightly

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 6, 2011

  The class of 2011 has seen tremendous changes in the way the insurance industry operates and is eagerly positioning their companies to tackle the key issues that will likely face the industry in the next five years.

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  2011 Insurance IT All-Star: Judith Haddad

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  August 30, 2011

  Judith Haddad knows there is a specific goal in mind for Patriot National Insurance Group, a workers’ comp carrier located in Florida.

• What Lies Ahead

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 10, 2011

  Analytics is one key area that PwC focused on among its top issues for 2011.

• IASA 2011: IT Town Hall Provides Forum for Leaders

  By Michael P. Voelker  |  June 9, 2011

  Against a backdrop of continued economic uncertainty, IT professionals are challenged to deliver the highest level of technical capability to the business in the most cost-effective manner. Wednesday’s IT Town Hall shares the experiences and insight of industry professionals and audience members who can provide answers to some of the...

• Virtual Viewpoint: Mobilizing Carrier Resources

  By Anand S. Rao  |  April 15, 2011

  It’s not just insurers—pretty much the entire corporate world underestimates the difficulty of translating from a strategy to the respective project. Usually they have a strategy group or someone to deliver a strategy report on how they should be growing. Translating that into the specific projects that are needed—when they...