Content from Susanne Sclafane
Be Purposeful. Be Bold. Be Human.
"I remember this same story 10 years ago." The LinkedIn comment on our first-quarter magazine cover story, "Google's Insurance Strategy Could Be a Game Changer," appeared soon after we published an ...
Breaking the Mold: Sompo GRS and Its CEO
The recipe for building a billion-dollar-premium commercial insurance operation from nothing in four years involves mixing a new model for doing business with a supportive and visionary executive ...
P/C InsurTech Funding Reaches $4.7B Record In 2020 (Story In Charts)
After a slow start in 2020, InsurTech funding reached a record level of $7.1 billion for the year, with $4.7 billion earmarked for property/casualty startups, according to a quarterly tracker of ...
Industry Underestimating COVID Biz Interruption Losses: RenRe CEO
During an upbeat earnings call focused on how RenaissanceRe is using $1 billion of capital it raised last year in 2021, the CEO highlighted one negative development for the industry ...
Racism in Insurance: How Things Can Change
Move out of your comfort zone. Embrace failure. The two ideas are ever-present in articles telling property/casualty insurance leaders what they need to do to create innovative cultures and build the ...
Potential Industry Disrupter: Insurance-as-a-Service
How do property/casualty insurers and brokers stack up against other industries in terms of innovation? In short, they aren't sprinting anywhere as fast as "innovation natives" in the high-tech and ...
InsurTechs vs. Incumbents: Trends to Watch
Panelists speaking at a recent Carrier Management Virtual Roundtable agreed that InsurTechs are sprinting ahead of insurance industry incumbents on the innovation spectrum but said that investments ...
P/C Tech Trends to Watch: CB Insights NExTT Framework
What's NExTT? It's a question that CB Insights analysts asked—and answered—in a recent report about trends in property/casualty insurance technology, finding that eight of the 17 emerging ...