Metromile, the pay-per-mile car insurance company, hasadded three new benefit enhancements: the Direct Repair, Car Rentaland Claim Payments Programs, powered by AVA. By leveraging anartificial intelligence (AI) claims system, qualifying customerscan now opt-in to automate the identification, management andpayment of auto repair and car rental providers within Metromile'spreferred network through Metromile's mobile app or onlinedashboard. Qualifying customers can now also choose to automateclaim reimbursement directly through AVA.

Progressive Insurance has signed an agreement tolicense Applied Predictive Technologies Test & Learn®software. Progressive joins many leading organizations acrossindustries including insurance, financial services,telecommunications, retail and more in using APT's software suiteto measure the impact of new ideas. Progressive will continue usingTest & Learn® to evaluate key initiatives in areas across thebusiness.

Insurity,Inc. the provider of core insurance processing and dataintegration and analytics solutions, has announced thatthe Sirius Group selectedInsurity's SIMS Claims as well asthe Bridge PolicyAdministration and Bridge Billing offeringsfrom Oceanwide, an Insurity company. Cloud deployment ofthe solutions will enable rapid configuration, delivery andproduction.