On May 20 an EF5 tornado more than mile wide ripped through the suburbs of Oklahoma City for 40 minutes and laid to waste the 55,000-population city of Moore. Meanwhile, mid-May tornadoes in north-central Texas also damaged multiple homes, killing six people and injuring 100.

U.S. consumers are turning to digital sources for insurance quotes and other information, but still prefer personal contact with agents when purchasing insurance products, according to an Accenture survey of more than 4,000 U.S. automobile and home insurance customers.

The construction industry may not make a major comeback any timesoon in New York State, where labor laws as applied to the construction insurance business are doubling rates and driving carriers away, experts say.

There may have been doubts in the recent past about where cloud technology fit into the insurance IT landscape, but that all seems forgotten now.