Leadership & Strategy
Cyberwrite President Predicts an Avalanche. Are Cyber Underwriters Ready?
Harmut Mai, president of Cyberwrite, believes that in the future, insurance underwriters will see "an avalanche of businesses that are in need of a cybersecurity program." "There's no way the current ...
Reinsurers Continue to Lead in Post-Pandemic Innovation
Innovation in the insurance industry, accelerated by COVID-19, has continued largely due to consumer appetite and market competition, according to a newly released report by AM Best. Predictive ...
Grid-by-Grid: How One Tech Firm Dissects California Wildfire Risk to Sell Insurance and Reinsurance
There is general consensus among insurance and reinsurance underwriters about the safest property risks to accept in the California market, according to the co-founder of a company that uses ...
Evacuation Policies and Cat Strips: Wildfire Insurance and Reinsurance Ideas That Failed
Sometimes, it takes a few tries to develop the right insurance or reinsurance product—one that will align well with the needs and wants of customers. Kettle, a company that uses technology to ...
InsurTech Profile: InsurAware CEO Reflects on the Power of Change
At 40 years old, Rajesh Krishnan sat in a Baltimore intensive care unit, recovering from a brain aneurism and a stroke. His solution-oriented mind had driven him to academic and insurance industry ...
Betterview, EagleView Launch Strategic Property Intelligence Partnership
InsurTechs Betterview and EagleView announced a strategic alliance. EagleView's aerial imagery will be integrated into Betterview's property intelligence platform to help insurers better understand a ...
Tips to Building, Scaling Insurance Businesses for Success
Analysis of a 2022 survey, conducted by McKinsey, finds that while new insurance business avenues can have significant impact on enterprise value, many insurers struggle to build and scale them. ...
Employees Are Losing Sleep Over Rookie Managers: Research
New managers can be the stuff of office workers' nightmares. That's according to new research by digital learning system Oji Life Lab, which found that one in five employees lost sleep over a newly ...