A Letter to Insurers About Newsletters By Michael Shaw Insurers can opine about healthcare reform but should not dress opinions with the veil of impartiality, as if they have no conflicts of interest.
The Graveyard of Digital Health By Anish Sebastian The healthcare industry is overripe for disruption from the tech world, yet the process of working with healthcare providers is not easy.
Health Insurance for Self-Employed People By Nick Soman The most successful brokers will be those who figure out how to serve the massive and growing population of self-employed workers.
Focusing Innovation on Real Impact By Roger Peverelli Reggy De Feniks The story of, and lessons from, the first fully digital life insurance company (founded way back in 2006).
HRAs in 2020: What Can We Expect? By Caitlin Bronson With the creation of an HRA in 2016 and two new HRAs on the horizon, it’s a good time to look forward to what’s in store next year.
How Startups Disrupt Health Insurance By Cedric Kovacs-Johnson Many health insurance startups are creating transparency, so transactions can resemble what we experience with other products and services.
A Scary Future for Life Insurance? By Jody Pearmain Social media, currently checked to find falsehoods in applications, could be used in ways that customers might consider far more invasive.
Pricing Right in Life Insurance By Geoffrey Keast The problem with the life insurance pricing process boils down to how intensely manual it is. Excel is great, but it isn't flexible enough.
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.