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Insurance Journal • 13th July 2026

Mitigating Urban Hurricane Risk with Grassroots Conversations

While high-level boardroom strategies and contingency plans are essential, it’s the daily, “boots on the ground” conversations that can more imminently move the needle. Immediate, practical discussions between insurance professionals and policyholders can save families and insurers massive costs in a single hurricane season.

Cotality • 19th April 2026

Cognitive Imagery: Optimize Insurance Decision-Making

As Cotality entered 2026 — its first full year operating under its new identity—the company’s insurance solutions division established four pillars to anchor innovation for the year and beyond.

Cotality • 1st April 2026

Cotality Insurance Vision Pillars 2026

Cotality acts as the vessel turning property data into intelligence via four pillars: cognitive imagery, seamless workflows, interoperability, and agentic AI. These tools unite data silos into a cohesive ecosystem in which insights flow effortlessly.

Cotality • 8th December 2025

Sign up today for Cotality™ INTRConnect® 2026

Collaboration is invaluable for any organization. Tapping into the diverse perspectives of every professional in a company is so important, especially within the property restoration industry that has been impacted by a wide range of environmental and economic factors.

Cotality • 1st December 2025

Optimize your Cotality™ INTRConnect® 2026 Experience

Taking place on January 20-22, 2026, in the Washington D.C.-metropolitan area, the ultimate INTRConnect experience will deliver the perfect blend of practical knowledge and routine-challenging ideas to change the mindset you bring back to your work.

Cotality • 1st August 2025

Revolutionizing Wildfire Risk Models in California

With unprecedented wildfires striking California about every other year, it’s no longer sufficient for insurers to rely solely on historical loss experience models to manage risk in high burn potential areas. Over the last eight years, California wildfires have challenged even the biggest, longest-standing property insurers.

Cotality • 1st July 2025

Unify compliance, accuracy, and timing for every job

Compliance consistency, workflow efficiency, and data accuracy are all critical to water mitigation. You need them all, every time. There is a way to accomplish all three objectives across every project.

Insurance Journal • 16th May 2025

Conflagration's role in the wildfire equation

There’s a blurry line between where a wildfire ends and a conflagration begins. But, without an understanding of both types of fires, their dynamics, and their unique risks, it is impossible to develop a comprehensive wildfire-related risk management strategy.

Cotality • 11th October 2024

Can forensic weather data beat insurance fraud?

In 2023, the U.S. experienced a record number of hailstorms. Several urban hailstorms during 2023 caused more than a billion dollars in losses each. The severity of losses was in part caused by these storms occurring in densely populated areas where 1-inch or greater hail stones fell on over 10 million properties clustered closely together.

Cotality • 1st August 2024

AI in insurance underwriting transforms insurance workflows

There is a reason that all the top 25 insurance carriers are using at least one artificial intelligence (AI) application in some form or have an in-flight AI development initiative in progress. The cost of not using AI in insurance underwriting is too high for insurance companies to not have an AI roadmap.

Insurance Journal • 25th April 2024

The Role of Artificial Intelligence Across the Property Insurance Ecosphere

Over the last couple of years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed how everyone lives, works, and plays. More than just a trend, AI is the ability of a machine, computer, or software program to mimic human logic and thought patterns to make determinations and take actions. AI technologies are designed to solve problems and make decisions based on data they process and analyze.

CoreLogic® • 21st March 2024

AI in Property Insurance: Two Letters, One Massive Impact

Employing artificial intelligence in the real estate industry begins with good property data With the rise of Chat GPT – the sophisticated chatbot developed by OpenAI – artificial intelligence (AI) has exploded into public consciousness over the last year. It has also changed the way people live and work across all industries, including the property insurance industry. As we learned at INTRCONNECT 2024, AI is poised to transform processes across the industry over the coming years. But just bec

Next Gear Solutions Inc. • 19th March 2024

How to optimize end-to-end business processes in a restoration company

There’s a lot that goes into property restoration – especially these days when there are more frequent and severe natural disasters occurring. Combined with workforce challenges, it all makes for a difficult environment.

CoreLogic Next Gear • 8th March 2024

International Women's Day: A Conversation with Caitlin Rios

In honor of International Women’s Day, we are shining a spotlight on Caitlin Rios, Vice President of Restoration Products for CoreLogic’s Global Insurance Division. Caitlin has been with CoreLogic since the acquisition of Next Gear Solutions, where she was the Director of Product Management. Caitlin was just named to Insurance Business America’s list of 2024 Elite Women — its ninth annual report that highlights women who are making a difference across the insurance industry. The Elite Women re

Insurance Journal • 14th December 2023

5 Reasons to Attend INTRCONNECT 2024

It’s that time of year again. In the thick of the holiday season, we are at a crossroads between tying up loose ends to wrap up 2023 and preparing for 2024. 2024 is right around the corner, and with it comes so many opportunities for professionals across the property insurance ecosphere – from carriers to restoration contractors. If you haven’t started making plans for how to take on these opportunities and to conquer your business goals an

Next Gear Solutions Inc. • 12th May 2023

Embracing Uncertainty in the Property Restoration World with CoreLogic®

If the past few years have taught us anything, it is that uncertainty is the only thing we can count on in today’s world. A global health crisis, unforeseen economic challenges, skyrocketing housing prices, labor shortages, and other events have impacted almost every industry – and every human – in the world.

Next Gear Solutions Inc. • 8th March 2023

Connecting the Carrier-Contractor Ecosystem

In our last blog, we talked about our five takeaways from INTRCONNECT™ – the conference we hosted in January for members of the property insurance and property restoration industries. We summarized what we learned about how to future-proof carrier and contractor businesses for years to come.

Next Gear Solutions Inc. • 10th February 2023

Top 5 Things We Learned at INTRCONNECT

In January, the CoreLogic® Protect team hosted its first-ever INTRCONNECT™ conference, where hundreds of property insurance and restoration professionals gathered to learn and collaborate with one another about the future of the industry – and how to remain relevant and successful within it. An overwhelmingly successful event, attendees of the conference enjoyed expert panel sessions, collaborative breakouts, and a number of networking opportunities to swap and enhance their ideas on the trends

Insurance Journal • 18th January 2023

CoreLogic's Mission Possible: Putting Collaboration at the Forefront of our 2023 Vision

This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. It is the beginning of a new year when anything feels possible. People are committing to new goals to better themselves, and businesses are executing new strategies to realize greater success than ever. This week, CoreLogic Protect has officially set forth our strategic plan for 2023 – and how it will impact professionals across the property insurance and restoration industries.

Next Gear Solutions Inc. • 22nd December 2022

SOC 2 Type II Certification

Every day, threats to digitally-stored data grow in number and in complexity. With multiplying types of malware in today’s digital world, cloud-based software providers must build solutions with information security at their core. In order to protect customers and their sensitive data, software companies must be in a constant state of review of their products’ data security protocols.