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Two for One
The line between traditional indemnity insurance and parametric solutions is fading. Although carriers have offered both for decades, operational silos kept them separate: indemnity relied on ...
Storm Counts, Landfalls and Losses: The Hidden Risk Behind a ‘Quiet’ Hurricane Season
Some observers may label the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season as a "quiet" year due to zero U.S. hurricane landfalls, but from an insurance and catastrophe risk perspective, that conclusion misses the ...
Reinsurance Turning Point: From Operational Constraint to Competitive Advantage
Insurers have spent the past decade modernizing core operations. Policy administration, claims and underwriting have all benefited from advanced analytics, AI and digitized processes. Central data ...
Cyber Insurance Market Faces Pressure as Claims Severity Climbs
While the cyber insurance market is seeing more capacity and increased competition, insurers are still battling with the challenge of increasing frequency and severity of claims, according to John ...
Executive Viewpoint: What Telematics Got Wrong and What It Means for Commercial Auto
In 2012, I joined Direct Line Group's motor team to help build a telematics insurance product. The idea was simple: use real driving data to move beyond crude proxies—age, postcode, ...
Automation Theater: Why Carrier AI Investments Aren’t Showing Up in the P&L
The boards are asking. Investors are asking. The carrier C-suite is starting to ask: Where's the payoff? Insurers have been far from timid in their AI investments. Innovation labs have been built. ...
Why and How Homeowners Underwriting Must Change
Excellence in homeowners insurance requires sophisticated risk management, but today's industry environment is testing the limits of traditional underwriting approaches. Weather events are occurring ...
Insurance Data and the Complex Loops Redefining Casualty Risk
The world is evolving at a pace that outstrips traditional casualty models. Our understanding of risk, and the insurance data we rely on to quantify it, is increasingly misaligned with how people ...