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One Year In: How Insurers Are Doing on AM Best Innovation Assessments
In early March 2020, AM Best released Scoring and Assessing Innovation, our formalized criteria for measuring a company's innovativeness. Within weeks of its official launch, this methodology was put ...
Small Insurance M&A Deals Create More Value: McKinsey
McKinsey analysts believe insurers focused on large one-off deals undertaken to scale their companies and those who stick to organic growth are both headed down unfruitful paths if outsized ...
InsurTechs Will Not Shape the Industry’s Future Alone
InsurTech was once the Wild West of the insurance industry. Many of InsurTech's early players came from outside insurance after observing the industry struggle to deliver what was, in their view, a ...
Supporting Underwriting, Claims Decisions With the Science of Behavioral Economics
Successful insurance product administration requires consistent, accurate decisions from the evaluation of submissions at underwriting to the adjudication of claims. Effective decision operations are ...
Not Magic, But Design Thinking Works
There is so much talk about the need for the insurance industry to innovate. More and more emphasis is being put on innovation. Heck, even AM Best has decided that it needs to assess innovation as a ...

