Content from Susanne Sclafane
High and Rising: Cloud to Street’s Research on Flood Exposure
The title on the cover of the August 2021 edition of Nature magazine—"High and Rising: Satellite images reveal an increasing number of people and places exposed to floods"—gives a sense of what ...
Why Swiss Re Cares About GIS
"We believe in climate change. We want to take affirmative action…We want to close the protection gap and make the world more resilient. We believe in that—and we also want to take action in ...
Seeing Through Clouds: Why Now Is the Time for Geospatial Technology in Insurance
The prospect of property/casualty insurers and reinsurers adding information from geospatial imagery to their toolkits for underwriting, product development and claims handling isn't an entirely new ...
A Top-Down View of Insurance Risk: Understanding the Geospatial Insurance Consortium
One of the best-kept secrets about the property/casualty insurance industry is a member-centric organization that manages the largest aerial imagery program in the world. That's right. The world's ...An InsurTech Founder Moves On
When Chad Nitschke officially left his role as CEO of the InsurTech he founded, Bunker, in January of this year, he didn't know yet that he'd become the president of Vouch Specialty, the division of ...
Building Insurance for the Companies Building the Future
Back in 2015, after working more than 15 years on the underwriting side of the property/casualty insurance business, Chad Nitschke started to become frustrated with the lack of change in the ...
Rebuilding Construction Insurance
At the end of an hour-long interview, the chief executive officer of an InsurTech focused on liability coverage for middle-market commercial construction contractors gave an unusual answer to a ...
When Will the ‘Climate’ Change?
During the recent InsureTech Connect conference, Pranav Pasricha, global head of P&C Solutions for Swiss Re, made this observation while talking about property insurance innovations: ...