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Intelligent Automation in Loss Reserving: Why Actuaries Need Help From Robot Analysts
Among the many things that have changed how the actuarial field functions is an underlying movement to automate. By integrating cognitive computing capabilities into their actuarial processes, ...
Betting On Founders: How VCs Spot InsurTech Unicorns of 2025
Carrier vs. MGA. U.S. vs EU. Specialty niche vs. traditional insurance lines. There are many things that distinguish one InsurTech from the next, including financial metrics like internal rates of ...
VC Viewpoint: The Insurance Carrier Is Back in Fashion
As money began to flow into InsurTechs back in 2014 and 2015, these companies essentially fell into two categories: You were either a provider of technology to insurance companies or a distributor of ...
Stable Insurance Learns How Not to Spook Capacity Providers
Back in 2015, Douglas Ver Mulm was co-founder of Vervoer Rideshare Fleet, which runs and manages rideshare vehicles in New York City—a side gig when he was a lawyer at Mercer handling data security ...
AI Insurance: Who Is Insuring the Algorithms?
There are some algorithms in life that, even with the very best marketing, don't really matter too much. For example, if Netflix's recommendation algorithm points me toward the first episode of a ...
Autonomous Trucking Technology Is Here—Are Commercial Insurers Ready?
June 16, 2019, was a seemingly normal day on Florida's Turnpike in Orlando. Minivans were filled with families on their way to Disney; local Floridians were going about their daily routines. But ...
Why Ecosystem Distribution in P/C Insurance Is Critical Now
Even before COVID-19, the property/casualty insurance industry was making the move toward digital in distribution as well as other areas of the business, such as claims and pricing. Ecosystems in ...
In 2020, InsurTechs Come Down to Earth
InsurTech startups in their first few years have supplied plenty of flash and dazzle, paired with promises to disrupt and transform the insurance industry through radical changes and inventions. In ...