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INSURANCE TECHNOLOGY

HawkSoft | March 10, 2021

HawkSoft, the Oregon-based management system and insurtech provider, has introduced a new tool to eliminate double-entry on the web: HawkLink for Google Chrome. Insurance professionals often waste valuable hours and risk E&O exposure by physically re-entering client and policy information from their management system into carrier portals or other insurance websites. As an extension for the most popular web browser in the world, HawkLink for Google Chrome enables agency staff t...

INSURANCE TECHNOLOGY

Mercury Insurance | April 07, 2022

Today, Mercury Insurance announced that the company has made its usage-based insurance app, MercuryGO, available to drivers in Illinois to help improve driving skills and traffic safety. The app acts as a virtual driving coach, providing skill scores that give real-time feedback about driving behavior. Mercury auto insurance policyholders who enroll to use the app immediately receive a 5% participation discount and teen drivers will receive up to a 10% discount. Then, when MercuryGO customers re...

INSURANCE TECHNOLOGY

Sedgwick | September 24, 2021

Sedgwick, a leading global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions, today announced it has acquired Managed Care Advisors, Inc. (MCA), a Bethesda, Maryland-based government contracting firm and leading provider of workers' compensation and specialty health plan products and services to the U.S. federal government. Managed Care Advisors' expertise includes a comprehensive, outsourced federal agency workers' compensation case and c...

INSURANCE TECHNOLOGY

Farmers Insurance | September 21, 2021

Farmers Insurance® today announced plans to use a digitally controlled mobile robot to assist with in-field catastrophe claims handling and non-catastrophe property inspections, helping to improve the safety and efficiency of both while becoming one of the first national P&C insurers to deploy a robotic quadruped. Created by Boston Dynamics and customized for Farmers®, "Spot" will join claims personnel beginning as early as fall 2021 to help assess dama...