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A Carrier Checklist: 10 Steps to Transformative Change
According to Bain & Company, only 12 percent of companies embarking on change programs fully achieve their goals, and 38 percent achieve less than half of them. How can you improve your odds? ...
Change Management: A Guide for Leaders
Successful corporate transformations are hard to pull off. For CEOs and senior executives trying to lead and drive change initiatives within their companies, the odds of success appear to be stacked ...
Five Years, Five Top Carrier Management Exclusives Unlocked
In February, Carrier Management marked its fifth anniversary of publishing content tailored for property/casualty insurance executives, directors and future leaders. Before looking ahead to 2019, we ...
Between an Ant and a Grasshopper, Lemonade’s Results ‘Most Improved’
The three U.S. venture-backed InsurTech carriers we have been tracking for several quarters have more money, more premium and more losses as we head into the last quarter of the year. During the ...
Can an InsurTech Startup Compete With Progressive and GEICO?
The most common refrain of startups is that insurance is broken and their solution will fix it. Oui, c'est vrai. But two companies have their act together more than almost any other insurers: GEICO ...
Startups vs. Incumbents Revisited: Q32018
We first pointed out in a second quarter analysis of VC-backed startups Root, Lemonade and Metromile that companies run or led by well-known underwriters were growing slowly but far more profitable ...
‘Root’ of the Problem: Why One InsurTech’s Loss Ratios Still Disappoint
In the first part of this four-part article, we revealed that Root—currently the fastest growing carrier of three VC-backed InsurTechs we've been tracking—also posted the worst loss ratio result ...
An Instagram Strategy Can Help Create the Next GEICO Gecko
I recently moved to New York City from a comfortable, tree-lined New Jersey suburb, leaving behind three floors, a basement, a backyard and side porch for 1,000 square feet on busy West 55th Street. ...