Nationwide has added SmartRide, a safe-driving program, to its existing Amazon Alexa smart living capability. To encourage safe driving and potentially save members money on their premiums, Nationwide SmartRide members can now access information on critical driving habits like hard braking, fast acceleration and idle time – all through the Alexa-enabled devices.

People's Trust Insurance, one of Florida's top 10 home insurance companies, has expanded its use of the TechCanary Insurance Platform. Based in Milwaukee, Wis., TechCanary provides a cloud-based, analytics-driven insurance solution within the Salesforce CRM platform.

EXL, an operations management and analytics company headquartered in New York City, and Illinois Mutual Life Insurance Company, based in Peoria, recently announced a partnership to implement EXL's LifePRO® platform for digital customer acquisition, policy administration and analytics. In a press release, Illinois Mutual President and Chairperson Katie McCord-Jenkins said, "Illinois Mutual is preparing for a future as a digital insurer, and needed a partner and solution to help achieve four primary goals: to enable the delivery of innovative new products to market more quickly, enable straight through processing and automated underwriting, improve our business operations through streamlining and automating processes, and enhancing the service we provide to our clients and agents. Our partnership with EXL positions us to meet all of those goals."