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Lloyds’ CFO Keese Sees Inflation as Biggest Challenge for Insurers in 2022
The insurance industry has faced myriad disrupters during the past several years, ranging from the ongoing effects of a global pandemic to climate risks to technological advancements. However, the ...
A Special Time for Specialty Markets
The specialty insurance marketplace always has been a vast laboratory for nascent products. It once was a tiny market. Those days are over. Today, with tens of billions in premiums in the U.S. ...
An Embedded Insurance Future
Insurance can be a tough sell. It's convoluted, related to a future risk that's hard to imagine, expensive and seemingly needless. And on top of that, general public sentiment tells us consumers are ...
Leading Tech Brands That Embed Insurance Propositions for Customers
• In consumer retail, Amazon is a prime example—pardon the pun—of a global e-commerce leader that has been distributing warranties in the U.S. and Europe for 15 years. Lately, the behemoth has ...
CEO Reflections: Business Lessons From COVID-19, One Year Later
If COVID-19 has taught us any important business-related lesson in 2020, it is the importance of being agile. More than a mere business practice, this agile philosophy of quickly adapting to ...
Why Auto Insurance Companies Should Drop Credit Score
COVID-19 has exacerbated socioeconomic inequality and exposed vast racial and economic disparities in America. Millions have lost their jobs, and research shows that historically under-resourced ...
From ‘Blue Sky’ Thinking to Groundbreaking Risk Initiatives
Sometimes we get in our own way. We think our ideas are crazy and rationalize them away because we see too many hurdles to overcome. Before we know it, we've tossed aside an idea that could have made ...
‘Well Done Is Better Than Well Said’: Retiring CEO Reflects
Next year I will be retiring from the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, an organization founded to advance the cause of member companies and their policyholders. It's been my work ...