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Driverless Cars Will Change Auto Insurance. Here’s How Insurers Can Adapt

Harvard Business

There is little doubt that the widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles will have a huge impact on the automobile insurance industry. Since insuring privately owned vehicles is what the auto insurance industry has been all about, insurers have every reason to be concerned about their future growth and profitability.

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Blockchain: New Use Cases for Governments and Business

Tom Spencer

For example, BHP Billion, a global leader in the mining industry, is using blockchain to improve its supply chain; Ford Motor Company is researching a blockchain-based system for controlling traffic flow; and AXA Group, an insurance company, is using blockchain-based smart contracts to automate flight insurance payments.

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10 Promising AI Applications in Health Care

Harvard Business

health care by 2026. Errors and fraud are a similarly expensive problem for health care organizations and also for insurers. The field of health AI is seemingly wide—covering wellness to diagnostics to operational technologies—but it is also narrow in that health AI applications typically perform just a single task.

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The Question with AI Isn’t Whether We’ll Lose Our Jobs — It’s How Much We’ll Get Paid

Harvard Business

The Bureau of Labor Statistics issues periodic occupational growth projections , and in its most recent report, for the time period 2016 to 2026, 11 of the top 25 fastest-growing occupations are health care–related, where human-dominant skills are essential. Luckily, we know there will be ample opportunities in these jobs. In the U.S.,

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The Most Common Job in 29 States to Nearly Vanish in 10 Years; Know What That Job Is?

MishTalk

Adoption Timeline According to Morgan Stanley, complete autonomous capability will be here by 2022, followed by massive market penetration by 2026 and the cars we know and love today then entirely extinct in another 20 years thereafter. Not only that, but insurance costs will drop. People keep emailing me about insurance.

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Seven Charts Explain Why Chicago Bonds Rated Junk

MishTalk

By some calculations, the city is on the hook for as much as $63 billion when pensions, long-term notes, and health insurance obligations are included. By the time payments peak in 2026, they will be four times the 2014 level. Chart #1: Massive Debt Burden Simply put, Chicago is shouldering an enormous amount of debt.

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Artificial Intelligence: It’s Current and Future Role in Healthcare (Part 1 of 2)

Tom Spencer

A few examples include: Increasing revenues for healthcare providers by reducing insurance claim denials (e.g. In 2017, Accenture Health reported that the top 10 AI applications will produce an estimated annual benefit of roughly $150 billion by 2026 6 , with the following applications leading the way: Robot-Assisted Surgery ($40B).