Emerging Technologies

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues in the insurance industry today, but forward-thinking insurers have found the way to combat it: AI. 

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ITL FOCUS is a monthly initiative featuring topics related to innovation in risk management and insurance.

This month, we're focusing on Automation and RPA

As part of this month's ITL Focus on automation and RPA, we spoke with Nigel Walsh, managing director, insurance, at Google, about how far automation has progressed -- and about how to think about what comes next. Why automate a form or a process when you can simply eliminate it? 

U.S. regulators essentially took the training wheels off autonomous vehicles last week, clearing the way for AVs to take a major step forward. 

The forward-thinking approach in the P&C market is to provide the required property data as a service (PDaaS) to carriers.

AI-powered optical character recognition lets insurers unlock vast troves of data and streamline all processes.

The process for gathering enough data so machine learning can detect species in images is the same process for detecting fraud in the vehicle industry.