IOT

The potential implications for insurers are great, but they must focus on what has too often been a lousy customer experience.

Insurance thrives on data -- and the Internet of Things offers brand new, high volumes of data to work with. The combination could be powerful.

My experience shows that the insurance industry can be doing so much more. At a minimum, there is a great opportunity to educate the policyholder.

Manufacturers must be held to strict standards -- but also must be protected from litigation that would kill innovation.

Insurtech provides important opportunities in three areas: underwriting automation, connected devices and cybersecurity.

Here are five trends to look for in 2017, as the IoT enters its adolescence, and how to benefit from them.

The internet is going from controlling information to controlling physical things, which has profound implications for insurance.

With IoT, insurers can leverage big data analytics to better underwrite risk, improve loss prevention and even predict consumer behavior.