How to Analyze International Insurance Programs By Arthur Michelino International brokers now have a tool to diagnose program connectivity: Adjacency mapping transforms intuition into measurable structural analysis.
Independent Insurance Agencies Face Staffing Crisis By Tricia Sabulis Independent agencies must shift from passive job posting to active talent development as the insurance staffing crisis intensifies.
Gen X Insurance Customers Embrace AI Assistants By Francisco Lopes Insurance agencies underestimate Gen X customers, who demonstrate higher comfort with AI assistants than any other age group does.
What Commercial Clients Ask Agents About AI By Afroz Mohammed Commercial insurance clients now expect agents to articulate how AI strengthens account management, moving expectations beyond traditional placement.
AI Accelerates Policy Admin System Implementation By Illia Pinchuk Embedding AI into policy administration system delivery addresses the biggest challenge: predictability, not just implementation speed.
10 Key Compliance Issues With Email Signatures By Michael Yehoshua Email signature governance remains a blind spot for most carriers, creating unmanaged exposures under state, privacy, and advertising rules.
Customers Need More Help From Agents By Kevin Brandt While 88% value insurance for financial security, nearly half never review policies, leaving agents to bridge coverage gaps.
Agent, Heal Thyself (on Cyber Security) By Chris Skipworth Independent agents help clients understand cyber liability, but many run their own operations on shared passwords and informal access controls.
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.
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.