Emerging Technologies

Smart glasses can improve collaboration and cut costs, but moving past the “science experiment” stage is a challenge for many carriers.

The question is: Who will dominate -- homegrown insurtech startups or companies from the U.S. and Europe?

The ingenuity and sheer variety of the 11 participating startups was astounding – and will ultimately be great for the industry.

Video is a rich source of benchmarking information for unlocking opportunities, innovative customer service and practical applications.

A great inaugural event, but to a large extent insurtech innovation is not yet focused enough on the core industry issues.

One option is to create an insurance pool for each autonomous carmaker that would assume all the product liability risk.

The eight winners of the SMA Innovation in Action Awards include Figo Pet Insurance, Meteo, Motorists Insurance Group and Texas Mutual.

It does not take a rocket scientist to understand that virtually every type of property/casualty insurance will be affected.