AI Insurance Takes a Step Toward Becoming a Market
Back when Munich Re launched the industry's first insurance coverage for artificial intelligence (AI) at the end of 2018, the policy, aiSure, found few takers. In ...
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Russ Banham, a Pulitzer-nominated journalist and best-selling author, is a longtime contributor to Carrier Management
Leading in an Industry He Once Shunned, wefox CEO Aims to Make Insurance Fast and Simple
When Julian Teicke was a teenager, the lavish events his insurance broker father attended with other successful agents struck him as out of proportion to their essential ...
The Secret Life of an InsurTech CEO Leading a $5B Cybersecurity MGA
In the early aughts, when Shardul Shah first met technology entrepreneur Joshua Motta as undergraduates at the University of Chicago, Motta seemed unusually reserved. "I found it challenging to meet ...
Insurers Brace for SEC Climate Risk Disclosure Rules
For U.S. property/casualty insurance carriers, the landmark proposal by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the disclosure of climate-related risks and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) ...
ILS for Casualty: The Backstory of Ledger Investing
In the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew's $15.5 billion in insured losses in 1992, insurance-linked securities emerged to distribute a portion of future property-catastrophe risk to investors. At the ...
An Innovator’s Journey: From Star Litigator to Litigation Finance
For as long as he can remember, Chris Bogart has been interested in the law. As a schoolkid growing up in Toronto, Canada, he enjoyed the thrill of debating, articulating and defending his ideas ...
Why Founders Leave InsurTechs
Ron Glozman has always been a problem-solver, a good skill to have as a tech visionary creating companies that automate manual processes in the insurance industry. Once the business is launched, he's ...
Not Your Grandpa’s MGA: Competition Heats Up in Digital Insurance
For nearly 150 years, managing general agencies have been an important sales and distribution arm of the U.S. insurance industry, initially offering a way for an early insurance company to enter ...
How to Value an InsurTech
Next year, Chubb (tracing its roots back to the birth of the Insurance Company of North America) will turn 230 years old, an extraordinary feat of longevity that partly explains why it's the world's ...