Leadership & Strategy
VIDEO: Experts Urge InsurTech-Like ‘Outside-In’ Thinking From Insurers
Are you using your vehicle to transport people? That's just one of the "archaic questions" that insurers might be still be asking, Chetan Kandhari, Chief Innovation and Digital Officer for ...
Potential Industry Disrupter: Insurance-as-a-Service
How do property/casualty insurers and brokers stack up against other industries in terms of innovation? In short, they aren't sprinting anywhere as fast as "innovation natives" in the high-tech and ...
InsurTechs vs. Incumbents: Trends to Watch
Panelists speaking at a recent Carrier Management Virtual Roundtable agreed that InsurTechs are sprinting ahead of insurance industry incumbents on the innovation spectrum but said that investments ...
A Carrier Management Special Event: Is Insurance Innovation Overrated?
Leaders working in property/casualty insurance and reinsurance agree that innovation is a business imperative for their firms, but each define the term slightly differently, and they say metrics to ...
Private Equity Investors Pelican Ventures, J.C. Flowers Complete Ariel Re Deal
Private equity investors Pelican Ventures and J.C. Flowers & Co. have completed their acquisition of Ariel Re from Argo Group. Ariel Re underwrites a global portfolio of reinsurance products in ...
Fintechs Will Increasingly Squeeze Insurer Market Share: EU Official
Established insurers will face a squeeze on profits and market share as new financial technology companies muscle in on the industry, a senior European Union official said on Wednesday. More fintech ...
Empathy: What Pie Insurance Co-Founder Craig Cares About
This year has posed an unthinkable number of challenges, and it has me considering whether or not empathy can exist in insurance. How can we create a world where buying and using insurance isn't a ...
Hippo Attracts $350M Investment From Mitsui Sumitomo; Reinsurance Treaty Also Planned
Hippo Enterprises, an MGA InsurTech focused on homeowners insurance, secured a $350 million capital investment designed to help fuel further growth. A related reinsurance agreement is also part of ...