Avoiding the Black Box: How to Apply Machine Learning to Actuarial Pricing
Applying machine learning to pricing and actuarial workflows is becoming easier due to advances in technology and increasingly accessible platforms. These complex ...
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More Than Technology: Reskilling ‘Decision Artists’ Core to Nationwide’s Underwriting Transformation
Underwriter, production underwriter, manager, underwriting director, and commercial underwriter officer are just a few of the titles that Nationwide's Tony Fenton has ...
Planck: Mining Data Gold for Small Commercial Insurers
Elad Tsur, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Planck, takes his inspiration to answer a question about the future of commercial insurance underwriting from the ...
Here to Stay: Why ‘Weather Whiplash’ Is a Growing Concern for Insurers
If you think the weather these days feels like a seesaw, you're not alone. Consider the following: In Colorado last year, a prolonged spell of unusually warm, dry conditions and one of the deadliest ...
8 Tips to Help Prevent Quiet Quitting
At least half of the U.S. workforce is "quiet quitting," according to Gallup. These workers are still fulfilling their basic job duties, but they're no longer willing to put in extra (unpaid) hours, ...
100% Digitized: Coterie Insurance Underwriters Create Their Digital Clones
InsurTech Coterie Insurance is on a mission to bring speed, simplicity and service to small business insurance—and it's accomplishing that with a 100 percent digital ...
Unlocking the Value of Intelligent Automation for Actuarial Ratemaking
Back in the day doesn't mean what it used to. In most cases, that phrase refers to a time many years ago. But with the world changing as quickly as it is, back in the day ...
Unsyncopated Clocks: ‘Fire and Flood’ Book Highlights Insurers’ Climate-Change Late Show
Scientists have been sounding the climate-change alarm for decades. But despite these dire warnings, a large swath of the public still refuses to believe, and both policymakers and businesses have ...
Underwriting the Transition: Chaucer, Moody’s Break New Ground With ESG Scorecard
As corporations increasingly navigate the environmental, social and governmental (ESG) landscape, they require tools and benchmarking to help them meet their ESG targets. ...
Underwriters of the Future: 100% Digitized or Super Human?
At Coterie Insurance, an MGU on a mission to bring speed and simplicity to small business insurance, a 100 percent digital underwriting process is in place. Coterie ...