Talk of the Industry: Who Said What in Insurance and Technology This Week

People in the insurance and technology industries have been debating everything from social media analytics to regulatory uncertainty to policy administration modernization challenges. Insurance & Technology gathered some of these words of wisdom, concern and inquiry about some of the week’s most interesting developments that could influence the insurance business.

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1. Is It Kosher?

Either the pig was great or it was 'time for the pig to become bacon.'

— Actuary Roosevelt Mosley Jr., a principal at Pinnacle Actuarial Resources, describing tweets about Geico's squealing pig TV commercials that he analyzed for his study "Social Media Analytics: Data Mining Applied to Insurance Twitter Posts." For this research Mosley received the 2012 Management Data and Information Prize from the Casualty Actuarial Society.

Source: Casualty Actuarial Society

Katherine Burger is Editorial Director of Bank Systems & Technology and Insurance & Technology, members of UBM TechWeb's InformationWeek Financial Services. She assumed leadership of Bank Systems & Technology in 2003 and of Insurance & Technology in 1991. In addition to ... View Full Bio

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