How We’re Doing It
Not Your Grandpa’s MGA: Competition Heats Up in Digital Insurance
For nearly 150 years, managing general agencies have been an important sales and distribution arm of the U.S. insurance industry, initially offering a way for an early insurance company to enter ...
Insured Losses From Germany’s Flooding Could Reach $6B: AIR Worldwide
AIR Worldwide, the Boston-based catastrophe modeling firm, estimates insured losses in Germany from July flooding could approach €5 billion ($6 billion). Low pressure system "Bernd" parked itself ...Rebuilding An InsurTech: Video Highlights
Back when Carrier Management first interviewed InsurTech Founder Scott Walchek about his company Trōv, the serial entrepreneur was involved in the second iteration of Trov's business model—as a ...
Trade-Credit-as-a-Service: How Hokodo Is Fixing Small Biz Financing Pain Points
Most often, the concept of embedding insurance refers to a means of distribution—offering more or less traditional insurance coverages for products or services at the point of sale. For Hokodo, ...
Behind the Firewall: Underwriting Cyber Risk for Google Cloud Users
The best cyber underwriting information often is the least accessible. A thorough assessment of information security practices requires data from inside an organization's firewall, which is both ...
The Story of Salty: From Oxford U. to ‘Embedded Insurance’
Salty owns embedded insurance—literally. "EMBEDDED INSURANCE" is a trademark of Salty Dot Inc. Salty's SaaS platform enables carriers and their distribution partners to offer policies to insure ...
How We’re Doing It: What It’s Like to Be Acquired
A smaller company being acquired by a larger one is often compared to a minnow being swallowed by a bigger fish, and that's quite understandable. But that's not always true and, to borrow another ...
Two Smart Solutions to Help Confront the Industry’s Talent Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has left the insurance industry's longstanding talent crisis with new challenges—and fresh opportunities. Before the pandemic, carriers were concerned about a wave of baby ...