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COUNTRY Financial® has joined Roost's HomeTelematics Program (HTP). Working with WillisTowers Watson and other insurance industry leaders, the HTP isapplying advanced analytics to gain impactful insights into theeffect of home installation of Roost smart sensors on fire andwater loss mitigation as well as customer engagement. Roost alsoannounced recently that it is partnership with The WeatherCompany | An IBM Business to deliver emergency weather alertsto the policyholders of Roost Home Telematics insurance partners.These precise and hyperlocal forecast alerts will begin rolling outas part of the Roost co-branded mobile app suite of applicationservices. The first insurer to launch is GuideOne Insurance, with these customizedweather alerts being incorporated into all future co-branded apppartnerships across the US and Europe. And last month, Roostrevealed a partnership with Madison Mutual Insurance to offer each of theirpolicyholders a free Roost Smart Water Leak and Freeze Detector ora Roost Smart Battery to help increase policyholder engagement.

Nationwide recently made a strategic investment inBetterview, the provider of building and propertydata, to extend Betterview's machine learning platform acrossadditional data sources with the aim of unlocking valuable insightabout commercial and residential properties for P&C insurersand reinsurers. Betterview's machine learning platform generatesdata and analytics by analyzing satellite, aerial and droneimagery. Other tech-driven enterprises now under the Nationwideumbrella include Nexar, Matic Insurance, blooom, Insurify, NextInsurance, and Sure.

Rytech,the water damage restoration and mold remediation company, hassubscribed to Invision™ invoicing software from VIP Software, anational provider of integrated software solutions to property andcasualty insurance companies. Invision™ automates the invoicecreation process through its integration with leading estimatingsoftware and delivers real-time, key performance indicators andreporting to provide the insight Rytech needs to support itsaggressive growth rates.

HDISigorta A.Ş. (HDI), a provider of non-life/generalinsurance services to retail and commercial customersthroughout Turkey, has selected the Sapiens Non-Life Insurance Suite (Sapiens IDIT)for policy administration, billing and claims.

Duck CreekTechnologies and Verisk recently announced thatthe P&C company Westfieldbecame the first to adopt a new integration between Duck CreekTechnologies and Verisk that simplifies the implementation of dataand analytics for commercial lines underwriters. This will giveWestfield insurers real-time access to better quality data and morepowerful analytics, resulting in more accurate and faster decisionsand the elimination of manual data entry.

Last month, Verisk announced that Hyundai MotorAmerica signed an exclusive agreement to join the Verisk Data Exchange™. As a participatingautomaker, Hyundai will supply Verisk with driving data from itsconsenting connected car owners.

Notion,the makers of multi-purpose IoT smart home sensors, has teamed upwith HomeAdvisor, the Colorado-based marketplaceconnecting homeowners to prescreened professionals for homeprojects. The integration with HomeAdvisor, called PlumberMatching, marks Notion's first partnership with a service providerto enable homeowners to immediately contact a local and availableplumber when a water leak is detected.

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