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How to Prepare for Catastrophe Claims

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Jeff Saye

By improving weather modeling and assessing past catastrophes, insurers can use predictive analytics to provide better support to customers during difficult times.
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How Dark Data Can Shed Light on Risk

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Matt Labovich

Understanding your dark data can reveal insights into customers and employees, the quality of your assets and manufacturing and the risks your brand faces on social media.
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AI and the Modern Data Flow

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Leandro DalleMule

We now have the ability to look at data differently, leveraging innovations to identify risk, extrapolate insights and see the bigger picture big data offers.
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10 Big Brothers ASAP

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Tom Bobrowski

Not a fad diet or magic pill, automation is a lifestyle change. Let’s talk change management.

AI & Machine Learning

AI and the Modern Data Flow

We now have the ability to look at data differently, leveraging innovations to identify risk, extrapolate insights and see the bigger picture big data offers.

An Interview With Tom Warden

Paul Carroll

Tom Warden, the chief insurance and science officer at CLARA Analytics, is a big fan of artificial intelligence. But...

September ITL Focus: AL and ML

Insurance Thought Leadership

ITL FOCUS is a monthly initiative featuring topics related to innovation in risk management and insurance.

This month, we're focusing on Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Blockchain

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How Blockchain Enhances Reliability, Speed

Alexandr Khomich

Let's take a look at three options for how blockchain is transforming insurance and improving insurance services.

Is Blockchain Still on Track?

Chak Kolli

With B3i declaring bankruptcy, will blockchain/DLT (distributed ledger technologies) ever reach the point of disrupting the industry for the better?

Tomorrow’s FNOL Has Arrived Early

Stephen Applebaum

Alan Demers

As digitization, mobility and connected vehicle technologies transform auto insurance, a better FNOL solution is now critical – and it's here.

Cyber

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An Often-Overlooked Business Interruption Risk

Yonatan Hatzor

A great many companies don't realize they rely on critical web-service suppliers, but when the technology goes down, business may grind to a halt.

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Blueprint to Counter Ransomware Attacks

Davis Hake

Insurers have collaborated on a detailed plan for small and midsized businesses, which find themselves in the sweet spot for ransomware attacks.

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Is Cyber Insurance on Brink of Collapse?

James Norrie

An industry that is too important to fail suffered claims of almost $7 billion in 2021 and now looks to take the lead in reducing client risk.

Data Analytics

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How to Lift Profitability in Tough Times

Patrick Foy

Demand for commercial insurance is on the rise, but profitability remains elusive. Algorithmic data is the key to greater, granular insight into risks and prices.

How to Prepare for Catastrophe Claims

Jeff Saye

By improving weather modeling and assessing past catastrophes, insurers can use predictive analytics to provide better support to customers during difficult times.

How Dark Data Can Shed Light on Risk

Matt Labovich

Understanding your dark data can reveal insights into customers and employees, the quality of your assets and manufacturing and the risks your brand faces on social media.

Ecosystems

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Why Everyone Wins With IaaS

Bill Suneson

Insurers and their distribution partners must evolve and convert new customers where they already choose to spend their money, no matter where that is.

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5 Key Questions for P&C Insurers

Laura Drabik

Policyholder needs are evolving fast—and so are the opportunities to leverage an endless stream of innovations by forming an insurtech ecosystem.

The Power of Ecosystem Transformation

Nag Vaidyanathan

The ecosystem model empowers technology departments by getting them closer to the end customers, positioning them as supporters of business strategy.

Emerging Technologies

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The Latest Trends in Insurtech

Jeff Goldberg

While investment slowed in the early phases of the pandemic, it rebounded strongly in 2021: Levels during the first half equaled the total for all of 2020.

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The Way to Address Climate Change

Guy Attar

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues in the insurance industry today, but forward-thinking insurers have found the way to combat it: AI.

Six Things: May 10th, 2022

Insurance Thought Leadership

It's Time to Rethink the Spreadsheet. Plus, Return to In Person Events, COVID Drives Tech in Workers' Comp; The Next Evolution of Insurance; and more.

Going Digital

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Real-Time Digital Risk Management

David Braunstein

Kristy Neal

Pat Stoik

Loss control teams at insurance brokers and carriers desperately need new ways to de-risk day-to-day operations of high-value shippers that have had troubling losses.

The Big Aha From InsureTech Connect

Embedded insurance showed up almost everywhere, as executives talked about building APIs to connect seamlessly with partners.

10 Big Brothers ASAP

Tom Bobrowski

Not a fad diet or magic pill, automation is a lifestyle change. Let’s talk change management.

IOT

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Six Things |December 7, 2021

Insurance Thought Leadership

IoT comes into focus. Plus, dramatic shift in underwriting ahead; premature failure in CPVC pipes; 5 trends to watch in commercial auto; and more.

IoT Comes Into Focus

Paul Carroll

A new report offers sharp insights into how the IoT will develop from here and into how insurers should adjust as they try to use it in products and services.

The Intersection of IoT and Ecosystems

Matteo Carbone

Insurers can build a sort of digital twin of the customer, then tailor their offerings and improve the customer experience.

Telematics

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Auto Insurance in the Hyperconnected World

Matteo Carbone

Telematics is becoming a necessary capability for dealing with the future of insurance, especially in auto, and capabilities will only grow from here.

How IoT Shifts Insurance's Paradigm

Steve Hernandez

Traditional discussions of react, repair and replace are changing to predict, prevent and protect. Part of this transition has been supported by the IoT.

UBI Needs a Technology Leap

Marc Gordan

As much progress as the industry has seen in recent years, we can't categorize UBI participation as mainstream when only 22% of people reported being in a program.