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Claims Innovation: How Your Company Can Use Legal Document Automation to Win Big
If this article were a legal document, it might sound like this: HERETOFORE, legal documents proximately cause a grossly adverse impact on insurance companies, which impact may include but not be ...
What Linus Teaches About Innovation
I have been bonked all afternoon. It's that time of year. Brooklyn's stoops, plumped by great pumpkins, are bright with autumn leaves. Sweeping up means braving the barrage of falling kernels, ...
How Virtual Agents Powered by Artificial Intelligence Can Transform Insurance
As with most industries within the financial services sector, insurance is facing the dual pressures of needing to keep costs down in a competitive environment while maintaining satisfaction ...
ACORD’s Hartnett Discusses the Future of Industry Standards, Disruption and the Internet of Things
In a recent, wide-ranging conversation with Wells Media Group's Andy Simpson, Bill Hartnett, ACORD's first innovation chief, talked about innovation culture and the power of failure, lessons he ...
How Much Insurance Does an Insurer Need? Data Analytics Transforming Carrier ERM
Big data and analytics are driving a transformation in insurance purchasing decisions, and insurance company chief risk officers are among those being impacted by the wave of change. Carriers are ...
A Conversation on Innovation and the Industry’s Future With ACORD’s Hartnett
There are not many insurance executives who will quote inventor Thomas Edison, Microsoft's Steve Baumer, futurist Alvin Toffler, Moore's Law, and philosophers Aristotle and Plato. There are also not ...
ACORD’s First Innovation Chief Talks About the Importance of Culture
There are not many people in the insurance business who can flash business cards with the title "head of innovation." Bill Hartnett, a former executive in the insurance division at Microsoft, was ...
The New Venture Capitalists: Insurance Companies
Property and casualty insurers are rich as Croesus, awash in capital and having a tough time figuring out where to put it. They can certainly invest (and largely do) in the equity and bond markets, ...