Content from Susanne Sclafane
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: ...
Beyond the Hype: How to Value InsurTechs
Why is it so hard for property/casualty insurance carrier professionals to accept the idea that InsurTechs are bringing value to the insurance industry—and changing it for the better? I have found ...
InsurTech Lessons From ITC: Take the Stock App Off Your Phone
Alex Timm, the chief executive officer of Root, has some advice for InsurTechs that go to the public markets: "You cannot let the stock price or Wall Street tell you what your value is." When ...
ITC Reporter’s Notebook: How Next, Root and Swiss Re Are ‘Adapting’ and Innovating
Over the course of the last six years, Next Insurance has adapted its business model, its distribution method, and its product offerings. Coming up next, the InsurTech aims to offer "adaptive ...
Buckle Up for Interesting Times: Not a ‘Standard’ Hard Market
Interesting. Fluctuating. Moderating. Fun. Those are the words that Patrick M. Gallagher, the chief executive officer of Gallagher Global Brokerage for the Americas, used to respond to a question ...
Employees Saying Adios to Carriers, Brokers Requiring Work in Office
During a session of an insurance industry webinar titled "State of the Insurance Marketplace," the war for talent was discussed just as much as the hard or moderating property/casualty insurance ...