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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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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. Chart #2: Growing Payments While the current state of the city’s balance sheet is dismal, the real problem relates to what is expected to develop over the next decade.

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Blockchain: New Use Cases for Governments and Business

Tom Spencer

Governments, businesses, and individuals are developing new use cases for blockchain as barriers to adoption continue to decrease. China believes blockchain can be key driver of economic development. Blockchain looks set to be deployed in many other industries. In contrast, Singapore supports cryptocurrency. trillion by 2030.

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10 Promising AI Applications in Health Care

Harvard Business

health care by 2026. In 2016, a ground breaking trial in California found that a mathematical formula developed with the help of AI had correctly determined the correct dose of immunosuppressant drugs to administer to organ patients. Errors and fraud are a similarly expensive problem for health care organizations and also for insurers.