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Workers Reporting Injuries Earlier in Tenure, Carrier Study Reveals
An insurer's study of a decade of workers compensation claims reveals that injury reports in 2021 came from employees who hadn't been on the job as long as those who reported claims in 2011. On ...
Colo. Supreme Court Rules Adjuster Not Personally Liable for Denied Claim
A Colorado law that allows claimants to collect double coverage if a claim is unreasonably denied or delayed does not allow plaintiffs to hold claims adjusters personally liable, the state Supreme ...
Tussle Over Connected Car Data Shifts Into High Gear; EU Mulling Regs
Where you go. What you pass. Where you stop. What you listen to. What you watch. Your good habits. Your bad habits. Companies in Europe and beyond are vying for control of the crown jewels of the ...
Commercial Litigation Funding and Social Inflation: A Non-Sequitur
Voices in the insurance industry have recently called for the regulation of commercial litigation funding on the ground that it is "a key driver of social inflation." Such calls to action lack ...
Lawyer-Turned InsurTech Founder Looks Into Cloud to Settle Tesla Claims
While Tesla has designs on using the data it collects to price insurance policies, the founder of an InsurTech is using it for the other end of insurance transactions—to unravel the story of ...
Who Owns Tesla Vehicle Performance Data?
At the end of an interview with the founder of Quantiv Risk, an InsurTech that helps carriers make sense of performance data from vehicles with advanced driver assistance systems, Carrier Management ...
On the Highway: A Litigator’s View From the Driver’s Seat of a Tesla
In 2016, Mike Nelson, the founder of InsurTech Quantiv Risk, bought his first Tesla and embarked on a 12-state cross country trip to get a first-hand understanding of where automobile technology was ...
Goodbye Google, Hello Insurance: Problem Solver Works on AI Platform for Claims Adjusters
Tom Vykruta, chief executive officer and co-founder at InsurTech EvolutionIQ, is no stranger to solving hard problems. Problem solver was essentially the job description for the relative newcomer to ...