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CEO Viewpoint: How Biz Insurers Can Jump on the E-Commerce Bandwagon
It seems like InsurTech has become the term du jour over the last nine months. It is often used to imply destruction, disintermediation, disruption and disaster (the four Ds) for the insurance ...
Snapsheet Execs: Virtual Claims Tech Need Not Take Away Field Staff Jobs
The application of technology in the insurance industry is accelerating at a rapid pace, yet the constraints of legacy infrastructure make it difficult to leverage and integrate new tools to enhance ...
Employer Leadership in Disaster Recovery and the Power of Return-to-Work
Businesses and their leaders have a unique role to play in helping communities and individuals recover from the devastation of a storm like Hurricane Harvey, and they should not underestimate the ...
CEO Viewpoint: How Drones Are Changing the Face of the Insurance Business
Sometimes it takes a tragedy—maybe even two tragedies—to change a paradigm. But just as Houston and parts of the west coast of Florida will never be the same after the double disasters of ...
Executive Perspective: Our Time to Lead; Risk Remains When Waters Recede
As I record these thoughts, Hurricane Irma has been downgraded to a tropical depression after having lashed Florida and more than a half-dozen Caribbean Islands. The storm led to 6.3 million Florida ...
Carriers Must Do Better Job Educating Consumers About Deductibles: IRC Report
A perfect storm is brewing. As hurricane season ramps up on the East Coast, a new report from the Insurance Research Council (IRC) reveals that many homeowners insurance customers don't understand ...
A View From the Outside: Global Futurist Uldrich Sees ‘Seismic Shifts’ for Insurance Industry
"We'll see more change in the next 25 years than we've seen in the last 100," a futurist told insurance professionals at a meeting in late 2014. Jack Uldrich, speaking at a Casualty Actuarial Society ...
Editor’s Letter: Insurance Tomorrowland: Back to the Future
During a presentation about the potential of blockchain to transform the insurance industry, Dr. Magdalena Ramada Sarasota, senior economist for Willis Towers Watson, raised some provocative ...