Leadership & Strategy
Chubb Underwriters to Oil & Gas Clients: Show Us Emission-Cut Plans
Chubb Limited announced new underwriting criteria for oil and gas extraction projects yesterday that will require clients to reduce methane emissions. Methane, a byproduct of oil and gas production, ...
To the Moon and Back: Space Tourism and Insurance
Space tourism, or human space travel for recreational purposes, is in its early days. For insurers, this means it's an emerging business that most aren't ready to tackle yet. Neil Stevens, senior ...
How Monitaur’s CEO Built a Culture of Problem-Solving, Innovation During a Pandemic
Anthony Habayeb founded Boston-based artificial intelligence software company Monitaur four years ago in 2019. A year later, the COVID-19 pandemic hit. But Habayeb said he's no stranger to solving ...
InsurTech Profile: Data Fuels Counterpart’s Small Biz Focus
Data is Tanner Hackett's fuel. He used it to bring ecommerce to Malaysia and launch Button, a mobile commerce marketing company. Now, the entrepreneur is leaning on data — and insurance experts — ...
Which Came First, the Cyber Chicken or the Cyber Egg?
One of the biggest challenges for cyber insurers isn't predicting when an act of cyber war could occur but figuring out how to define cyber war in the first place. That's according to panelists at ...
Telematics Master Class: How Progressive Offers Competitive Prices
During an investor conference last week, Progressive's leader revealed some subtle wording changes to the company's purpose and vision. Unchanged, however, are four pillars of Progressive's strategy, ...
InsurTech Tackles Underserved Homeowners Market: Uninformed Buyers
Ian Gutterman doesn't think there's any underserved market of people who need cheap insurance. "There's plenty of that available," says Gutterman, a longtime investor and industry analyst, whose ...
The Waves of Innovation in InsurTech: Reflections From a First Wave Startup Co-Founder
The world of InsurTech has changed dramatically since 2015, when I teamed up with my MIT classmate, Rashmi Melgiri, to found CoverWallet. Our goal was to reinvent commercial insurance leveraging data ...