Image Ignore Musk's Promise of Tesla Robotaxis While autonomous cars have made real progress lately, there's no reason to pay any attention to Musk's tease for a robotaxi announcement in August.
AI and a Vision for Safer Roads By Rohan Malhotra AI not only encourages safer driving but also provides a route to transparent and accurate risk assessment, for fairer underwriting.
Image Forget Driverless Cars... Here Come the Trucks! Two firms plan to roll out fleets of fully autonomous trucks this year, setting the stage for rewiring the world's supply chains.
Image Home Buying (and Insurance) Just Got Smarter Realtor.com will provide climate risk information on listings, projected years out. Plus, a bold new type of cyber theft; and GM backs down on sharing data on drivers.
Image The Lawsuit That Had to Happen A lawsuit should clarify a key issue in auto telematics... but perhaps at the cost of a class action and probes by the FTC and Congress.
Potential for Automation in Auto Insurance By Jacob Fuller Insurers are not only streamlining operations, they’re setting new benchmarks for efficiency, accuracy and personalized service.
Removing Hesitancy Around Telematics By Divya Sangameshwar With drivers concerned about rising premiums, there is a prime opportunity to win them over to telematics.
Unauthorized Use of Auto Claims Data By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers Privacy violations related to personal information have serious implications for consumers, insurers and their supply chain partners.
Auto Insurance in an Existential Crisis By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers The 125-year-old, $300 billion U.S. auto insurance industry is caught between runaway inflation and strained consumer wallets.
The Promise of Continuous Underwriting By Bill Deemer Bobby Touran Typically, a risk is underwritten, bound... and forgotten. But new streams of data and automation allow for continuous underwriting.
Convergence and the Insurance Ecosystem By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers Companies must anticipate the future, innovate beyond their core and transform their capabilities as rapidly as technology allows.
Lemonade's 'Synthetic Agent' Nonsense By Matteo Carbone Desperate for growth, Lemonade produces another howler: A lender receiving a 16% interest rate is presented as a (synthetic) agent.