Brand Management & Sales
Reflecting on Our Mission: Why I Am Proud to Work in Insurance
What is an insurance carrier to a business owner? For any business owner who hasn't taken the full measure of his or her insurance policy, the check he sends to a carrier often appears to be nothing ...
American Family Beefs Up Data/Analytics Capabilities With Networked Insights Acquisition
American Family Insurance has purchased a data and analytics software company in a move it said will help accelerate its digital transformation. Financial terms were not disclosed for American ...
Does the Digital Insurer Spell the End of Agents and Brokers?
Does the digital insurer spell the end of agents and brokers? Not at all, according to some speakers at the InsureTech Connect Conference in October. While the roles of agents and brokers in personal ...
Netflix vs. HBO and the Race to the Insurance Customer
"The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us," the chief content officer of Netflix said four years ago. In the insurance world, InsureTech Connect Conference Founder Caribou Honig thinks ...
Top 10 Takeaways from InsureTech Connect 2017 Conference
More than 3,800 insurance and technology enthusiasts gathered at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas in October for the second annual InsureTech Connect Conference. In addition to insurance executives, the ...
Agents Still Rule; Consolidation Ahead, State Auto CEO Says
As part of our continuing look at the Future of Insurance (kicked off in the third-quarter edition), Carrier Management asked State Auto CEO Michael LaRocco his view on the question of how insurance ...
Standing Up a New Insurance Carrier: Super Regional State Auto Goes Digital for Real
A lot of property/casualty insurers are talking about digital transformations these days but the change taking shape at a midsized super regional carrier in Columbus, Ohio is different from the rest, ...
Former CNA Chair Chookaszian Reveals the Industry’s Unused Asset: Customers
When you serve as a director for five public companies and two dozen insurance technology service providers, you travel quite a bit. Sharing economy innovations have opened a world of new experiences ...