MetLife Auto & Home® is expanding itsusage-based auto insurance program, My Journey®, with a newsmartphone app to monitor and improve its customers' driving.Powered by technology from TrueMotion, the app provides drivers withquick feedback to both improve their driving and lower their autoinsurance rates.

BetterView, the San Francisco-based companythat captures and analyzes data from drones, has partnered withCISGroup to provide their national network of fieldinspectors with drone software and services. Texas-based CIS Groupof Companies is a full-service claim adjusting, underwriting andappraisal services organization, serving the needs of more than 125insurers. Its national network of inspectors, adjusters andappraisers provide the prompt, reliable and valuable informationtrusted by Carriers as they make their risk management and claimsdecisions. "In today's competitive insurance industry, there aremany unique transactions that require specialized roof imagery anddata," said Ballard Castleman, CEO of CIS Group. "Partnering withBetterView allows us to enhance the roof inspection process."

Safepoint Insurance Company has selectedDuckCreek Technologies to modernize its property andcasualty insurance core systems. The Tampa-based insurer currentlyoffers residential and commercial property insurance productsthrough agency partners serving customers in Florida and Louisiana.Duck Creek's policy and billingsolutions will be used to improve operational efficiencies aswell as support new product development that will advance businessgrowth and expand their offerings to additional states.