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How Telematics Improve Fleet Safety

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Julie Lawton

Within the fleet industry, the most common cause of crashes is distracted driving, which injured more than 420,000 drivers and killed 3,142 people in the U.S. in 2020 alone,
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Part 2: The (Re)rise of Insurtech

By

Ian White

Insurtech 2.0 recognizes the innovators who came before but takes a more nuanced and collaborative approach, recognizing the structural issues inherent in insurance.
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Part 1: Insurtech 1.0: A Post-Mortem

By

Ian White

The legacy of Insurtech 1.0 may be more enduring than the actual companies. They forced incumbents to recognize their intransigence, producing a new focus on customer experience.
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Can Insurers Connect to the Connected Car?

By

Donald Light

Auto insurers have a strategic imperative to not be left behind in the race to monetize connected car data, and there are several ways insurers can do this.

AI & Machine Learning

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Speed and Low-Code Go Together

The perfect match: the speed of low-code application development, with the scalability and power of the leading AI/ML engines and large data sets.

Turning Underwriting Inside Out

In this webinar, we explore a different way of looking at how to improve underwriting; focusing on the needs of the underwriter, not just on the process.

An AI-First Approach to Customer Service

Bill Schwaab

Making conversational artificial intelligence a first line in customer interaction saves time and frees human agents to focus on more involved tasks.

Blockchain

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Do You Really Need Blockchain?

Roman Davydov

Though blockchain has vast potential due to security and trust, some of its benefits, such as decentralization and distributed processing, can turn into limitations.

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?

Cyber

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Cyber Due Diligence for M&A Transactions

John Butler

When organizations do not complete a detailed cyber evaluation of target companies before a merger or acquisition, they risk significant financial and legal challenges.

Compliance on Cyber Is No Longer Enough

John Allen

There are countless examples of high-impact breaches affecting companies that are entirely cyber-compliant.

Insurers Unprepared on Cyber Threats

Gary Alterson

65% of insurance technologists cited cyber-attacks/threats as even a greater concern than inflation (45%) and retaining and hiring talent (40%)

Data Analytics

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Becoming a Data-Informed Organization

Tyler Jones

Many companies aim to be data-driven, shifting decisions away from human actors and trusting the algorithms. Instead, firms should be "data-informed."

Customer Segmentation Is Key

Ilya Filipov

It would be impossible for insurers with thousands or tens of thousands of customers to fully understand each of them individually.

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Next-Gen Property Risk Data and Analytics

John Siegman

Most property risk models rely heavily on ZIP code. Yet, technology and data exist today to evaluate more than 1,000 risk data points for every single property in the U.S.

Ecosystems

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Global Insurance Forum Experts Series: An Interview with Thierry Léger

A Conversation with Thierry Léger

What’s Next for Insurtech?

ITL Partner: Jobs Ohio

Insurance Thought Leadership

Ron Rock, senior director, insurance/insurtech, JobsOhio, and Andrew Daniels, founder and managing director, InsurTech Ohio, talk about what comes next for the insurtech market.

Embedded Insurance Is Everywhere

Matteo Carbone

As InsureTech Connect showed, the embedded topic is cool among investors, and every funder is adding it to the pitch deck.

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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Part 2: The (Re)rise of Insurtech

Ian White

Insurtech 2.0 recognizes the innovators who came before but takes a more nuanced and collaborative approach, recognizing the structural issues inherent in insurance.

Part 1: Insurtech 1.0: A Post-Mortem

Ian White

The legacy of Insurtech 1.0 may be more enduring than the actual companies. They forced incumbents to recognize their intransigence, producing a new focus on customer experience.

What Siri and Alexa Will Never Do

While many futurists have claimed that voice is such a natural means of communication that it will soon take over all customer/corporate interactions, Amazon's experience proves otherwise.

IOT

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How Telematics Improve Fleet Safety

Julie Lawton

Within the fleet industry, the most common cause of crashes is distracted driving, which injured more than 420,000 drivers and killed 3,142 people in the U.S. in 2020 alone,

An Interview with Sean Ringsted

Paul Carroll

The insurance industry is constantly changing and expanding with the rise of new technologies in order to adapt to today's clientele.

December ITL Focus: IoT

Insurance Thought Leadership

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

This month's focus, sponsored by Chubb, is Internet of Things

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.

Six Things