Innovation
How Progressive, Assurant and Others Innovated Their Innovation Processes
While culture is the central ingredient in the innovation recipes of most property/casualty insurers, strategy games and idea labs are among the more novel approaches P/C leaders describe when asked ...
P/C Insurers Blocking Their Own Roads to Innovation
Property/casualty insurers face a number of external obstacles on the road to delivering more innovative products and reimagining their operations, but the ones that really get in the way come from ...
Allstate Roadside Services to Offer Assistance for Lyft Drivers
Allstate is getting involved in the ridesharing market with the announcement that Allstate Roadside Services is now offering 24/7 pay-per-use roadside assistance to drivers on the Lyft platform. Lyft ...
Objects In Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear
I have a CD player in my relatively new luxury sports sedan. It plays five—or maybe six—CDs so I can be surrounded by music I choose and like all through even a reasonably long journey. Or maybe ...
AIG Expands Its Use of ILS Financing Into Mortgage Insurance
American International Group disclosed that it is expanding its already robust use of insurance linked securities into its mortgage insurance business. To do this, AIG's mortgage arm – United ...
ACE Launches Info Website in UK & Ireland For Employer Liability Clients
Ace Group developed a new website designed to give its employer liability clients in the U.K. and Ireland access to a wide range of data and services. The property/casualty insurance giant frames the ...
A Different Take on Insurance Price Optimization
Bill Gausewitz, Esq., recently published an intriguing article in Carrier Management that supports insurers using "price optimization" approaches to make profits. He pits "…business goals of growth ...
PURE Starts Offering Workers Comp in Florida For Members’ Domestic Employees
Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE) is introducing workers compensation insurance for domestic employees of its members who live in Florida. Eligible employees include those who care ...