IBM settles £36m Direct Line insurance platform project lawsuit, after claiming Teradata tried to usurp its spot Terms of deal not disclosed as Big Blue insists it wasn't wrong, but merely didn't follow design standards Gareth Corfield Wed 3 Mar 2021 // 09:30 UTC Share Copy British insurer Direct Line has settled with IBM over a High Court case it brought against the firm for £36m in which it had alleged that Big Blue fatally bungled a far-reaching Agile methodology-based insurance platform IT project. Direct Line’s 2014 Best for Customer (B4C) project (originally Project Emerald) was supposed to result in the business acquiring a new software platform on which to base its insurance operations. Instead, it alleged in court documents seen by