Who’s using what in the insurance industry: June 5, 2017

MetLife Auto & Home's My Journey Program now includes a smartphone app to monitor and improve customer driving. (Photo: iStock)

MetLife Auto & Home® is expanding its usage-based auto insurance program, My Journey®, with a new smartphone app to monitor and improve its customers’ driving. Powered by technology from TrueMotion, the app provides drivers with quick feedback to both improve their driving and lower their auto insurance rates.

BetterView, the San Francisco-based company that captures and analyzes data from drones, has partnered with CIS Group to provide their national network of field inspectors with drone software and services. Texas-based CIS Group of Companies is a full-service claim adjusting, underwriting and appraisal services organization, serving the needs of more than 125 insurers. Its national network of inspectors, adjusters and appraisers provide the prompt, reliable and valuable information trusted by Carriers as they make their risk management and claims decisions. “In today’s competitive insurance industry, there are many unique transactions that require specialized roof imagery and data,” said Ballard Castleman, CEO of CIS Group. “Partnering with BetterView allows us to enhance the roof inspection process.”