Content from Susanne Sclafane
InsurTech vs. Incumbents: What’s Really Different About Their Cultures?
Although strategies putting growth before profit instead of profit-first schemes may set InsurTech startups apart from established players in personal and commercial insurance lines, there's less of ...
Startup vs. Incumbent: The Battle Rages as InsurTechs Grow Fast But Fail to Show Profits
How far will they climb? How far can they fall? Will innovative InsurTech startups rocket past established players? Those may be some of the unspoken questions beneath a series of articles written by ...
The Value of Innovation: A Preview of CM’s Nov/Dec Magazine
"You don't have to be the CEO and get invited to deliver keynote speeches in order to influence the way an industry thinks." Adrian Jones, deputy CEO of SCOR P&C Partners and one of the guest ...
Changing the Conversation About InsurTech—With Numbers
Although the term InsurTech (or insuretech) has been part of the property/casualty insurance industry's lexicon for at least two years, stories about the technology-based insurance startups were ...
Inconceivable! ‘You Keep Using That Word’
Beginning their third article in a series examining the statutory financial results of InsurTech carriers Lemonade, Root and Metromile, authors Matteo Carbone and Adrian Jones make reference to the ...
Who’s Next? The Value of MGAs vs. Carriers
With Next Insurance making a decision convert from a digital managing general agency for small and medium-sized businesses to a licensed insurance carrier in May, there isn't much to report from the ...
Editor’s Letter: Reflections on the Year Without a Summer
It wasn't until mid-July this year that I had ever heard the term "lava bomb" or thought about the prospect of a Category 6 hurricane. But both were in the news around the time I read about another ...
Berkley Stresses Consistent Values; Cultures Can Vary
When W.R. Berkley Corp. announced the launch of Berkley Cyber Risk Solutions in late 2016, it was almost two decades after the first cyber insurance policy was written. But there are good reasons the ...