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Smarter Insurance With Agentic AI

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Abhishek Peter

Agentic AI revolutionizes insurance through predictive risk assessment, proactive customer engagement and streamlined operations.
The Telematics Edge in Commercial Auto

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Arissa Dimond

Despite declining profitability, 75% of insurers overlook fleets' readiness to share valuable telematics data.
Ukraine: Insurance Under Fire

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Mykhailo Hrabovskyi

War-tested Ukrainian insurers offer lessons in operational resilience for global markets.
How Insurers Can Engage Gen Z

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Breanne Armstrong

Traditional insurance research falls short, as Gen Z demands mobile-first, authentic engagement in the digital age.

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How Insurers Can Engage Gen Z

Breanne Armstrong

Traditional insurance research falls short, as Gen Z demands mobile-first, authentic engagement in the digital age.

Legacy Systems Quietly Undermine Your Success

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Legacy policy administration systems silently erode carriers' competitiveness in an increasingly digital insurance landscape.

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Bolt says it has shown that carriers can give water leak sensors to homeowners... and boost profits. That's a major change in IoT economics.

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ITL Focus: Internet of Things

This Month's Focus Topic

Behavioral economists have done numerous studies showing that “free” is magic. Even if something has a tiny cost, people still do a calculation of some sort that weighs that cost against the benefits. Even if they decide to proceed, there may be some sort of hesitation and delay. When there’s no cost, well, what the heck? Why not?

The IoT is heading toward “free” for some aspects of homeowners insurance, in the process accelerating the industry’s move toward a Predict & Prevent model and away from the traditional approach of helping make people whole after a loss.