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Insurance Industry Ripe for Human-Centered Innovation
The key to innovation in the insurance industry is "outside-in" thinking, according to an executive from Nationwide, who uses the term to reinforce the idea that customer-centric mindsets are the ...
Betting on Breakthrough Innovation: Shoot for the Moon
While it is often easier for P/C insurance and reinsurance executives to rally around incremental innovations, in order to really transform their organizations they need to fund some moonshots, ...
CEO Viewpoint: American Modern’s Kleiner Offers 6 Resiliency Tips for Any Leader
In the corporate world, some of us hold titles that automatically define us as a leader. However, if you need to use that title to be recognized as such, you will surely fail. Leadership is often ...About Archipelago
Archipelago co-founder Hemant Shah described the company as a risk data platform that uses artificial intelligence to digitize risk for large owners of commercial property. By doing so, the goal is ...
What Makes a Great Underwriter in 2020?
During a recent interview, CM asked QBE North America Chief Underwriting Officer John Beckman, a former chief actuary and chief risk officer, to talk about the qualities of the best ...
How We Did It: Becoming an InsurTech Unicorn
When InsurTech entrepreneurs like Assaf Wand, Max Simkoff and Dan Preston set out on the path of bringing groundbreaking ideas to life in the insurance industry, they heard a lot of negative talk ...
How the Hardening Reinsurance Market Measures Up to the Past
Reinsurance price hikes and capacity changes are not reminiscent of prior hard markets, participants said in quasi-Rendez-Vous meetings, with some going as far as to say that current price changes ...
Carriers Tap Reserves to Fund New Business Growth
Insurers are increasingly using reserve transactions such as loss portfolio transfers and adverse development covers to liberate capital supporting past reserves and redirect it toward premium ...