Blockchain

Or will it be more like the internet? So far, while blockchain shouldn't be treated as a panacea, it's looking much more like the internet.

In the short term, blockchain can be applied to data exchange and storage, P2P electronic payments and smart contracts.

It is estimated that roughly one-third of blockchain use cases are in the insurance industry. Here are the leading examples.

Blockchain can accelerate insurance transformation and steer the industry toward digital collaboration and interoperability.

Blockchain is still evolving, lacking in the basic enterprise technology adoption hygiene that is needed to build real use cases.

Even the most prominent blockchain company, Ripple, doesn’t use blockchain in its product. You read that right.

Estonia's entire electronic patient records of its 1.3 million citizens are collated in one central database, underpinned using blockchain.

Fraud costs insurers in the U.S. and Europe $60 billion a year -- but blockchain may make that fraud a thing of the past.