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Navigating the InsurTech Wave
Reinsurance companies increasingly are funding InsurTech startups in order to structure more innovative products and improve their business efficiencies, but how much impact on the industry will ...
Ways to Inspire Young Talent to Choose Insurance as a Rewarding Career
When you meet someone new or chat with an old acquaintance, do you share stories about exciting innovations in the insurance industry? Do you tell people about how the industry helps people after ...
Talent Gap Fix: Why Remote Workers Can Be Your Best Business Advantage
With a serious shortage in talent happening within the insurance industry, carriers are straining under the weight of too much work and too few employees, a problem that will only deepen as more ...
Disciplined Exposure Management Helps Reinsurers Absorb 2017 Catastrophes: Fitch
The global reinsurance industry demonstrated resiliency following the record level of catastrophe losses in 2017, as very strong capitalization and effective risk management enabled the sector to ...
Actuarial Analysis of Automated Vehicles: How Much Premium Discount Is Justified?
The advent of automated vehicles (AVs) has been variously described as a cultural watershed moment that will change society in deep and meaningful ways, or as an overhyped flavor of the day—and ...
Q1 Loss Ratios Unsustainably High for InsurTech Carriers Root and Metromile
Considering differences in "share of voice" commanded by InsurTechs Lemonade and Root, a surprise of first-quarter 2018 is the fact that the Columbus, Ohio-based Root has squeezed past Lemonade in ...
Hands Still Tied at Lemonade, CEO Says
When two InsurTech watchers tallied up underwriting results for Lemonade recently to conclude that the company's annual "Giveback" to policyholders' selected charities might shrink in coming years, ...
Bigger and Redder: A Look at Q1 ’18 for Lemonade, Other InsurTech Carriers
The three independent U.S. InsurTech startups whose 2017 full-year results we profiled in April continue to grow rapidly in early 2018. But so far that has meant more red ink. Results that are bigger ...