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Can InsurTechs Follow Uber’s Path? There May Be Pitfalls
Uber Technologies Inc. announced its first quarterly results as a public company with an operating loss of over $5 billion in the quarter. The company is emblematic of the growth-at-all-costs model ...
Unknowns and Long Tails: What’s the Next ‘Ex’?
Executives of property/casualty insurance carriers have been offering reassuring statements about the trajectory of the market lately. Premium rates are keeping pace with loss costs, they say. But ...
Can InsurTechs Really Disrupt Insurers and Reinsurers?
The mantra of InsurTechs is changing. Initially, InsurTechs were going to disrupt the insurance industry through the use of technology; however, technology alone cannot replace the vital role played ...ReinsurTechs to Watch (and Reinsurance-Friendly InsurTechs):
Analyze Re. This Verisk company, founded in 2013, offers software analytics designed to help reinsurers and insurers move faster on pricing and portfolio decisions. "Helping all companies in the ...
ReinsurTechs Break Through: Reinsurance May Finally Be on InsurTech’s Radar
InsurTech startups targeting the property/casualty insurance industry proliferated in multiple ways over the last few years. Relatively few of them focus on reinsurers, however, and Will Dove has ...
Why Open Source, Blockchain-Powered Infrastructure Matters
I started my career as the first network administrator at the University of California, Davis. Part of my job was to help build the Bay Area Regional Research network, one of 10 National Science ...
Celebrating Great People
My 91-year-old father had been a lonely man since he stopped working just a decade ago. Regularly, he'd ask me to contact friends from his youth or colleagues he'd worked with during the 1950s and ...
2018 Reserves Year in Review: Can Workers Comp Continue to Drive the Gravy Train of Releases?
2018 marked the 13th consecutive year in which the industry saw favorable prior-year reserve development bolstering calendar-year underwriting margins. Total releases for last year came in at over ...