Insurance News - Thursday, April 11, 2013

Here are the leading auto insurance headlines from ONTARIO AUTO INSURANCE TOPICS ON TWITTER for Thursday, April 11, 2013:

• New facial recognition technology promises to reduce insurance fraud but will insurers invest in the technology?
• Something to think about when the FSCO DR system is reviewed, British Columbia’s Minister of Justice has committed to investing in Canada’s first online Civil Dispute Resolution tribunal.
• Consumers' Association of Canada in British Columbia has released a report that makes 15 recommendations to fix Insurance Corporation of British Columbia and lower auto insurance rates in BC.
• The Arkansas Senate has approved legislation to allow charging drowsy drivers with negligent homicide when they cause fatal crashes. 
• Many insurers say big data promise is "overblown": according to a survey by Celent and contained in a reported titled How Big is Big Data? 
• Here we go again, Standing Committee on General Government is holding public hearings on auto insurance May 28 and 30.