Disruption of Rate-Modeling Process By David Wechsler An enhanced view into personalized data may be one of the most interesting opportunities in the insurance market to date.
How to Speed Up Product Development By Tom Hammond As technology speeds the pace of daily life and business, the product development cycle continues to represent a drag on P&C insurers.
AI Offers Big Step Up in Underwriting By John Cusano Cognitive robotics can address service requests from agents, anomaly detectors can flag issues and AI can spot product opportunities.
How Do Actuarial, Data Skills Converge? By Anand Rao By 2030, automated underwriting will become the norm, and new sources of data may be incorporated into underwriting.
Global Trend Map No. 15: Products By Alexander Cherry It has become clear that product development can no longer occur in silos, with one function creating products for another function to sell.
What Happens When You Become a Verb By Andrew Robinson Why one insurtech that is putting structure to critical claims and underwriting data is becoming part of the industry’s lexicon.
Underwriting Lessons From the PGA By John Johansen Outdated analytic techniques can hide strategic opportunities, and up-and-comers will use more sources and more relevant data.
How Underwriting Is Being Transformed By Gail McGiffin An EY survey finds that initial use cases are narrowly defined but that technologies are advancing key capabilities.
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.
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.