Features
Commercial Lines Tech Startup Embroker Now Open for Business
Technology-inspired startup insurance broker Embroker, which bills itself as the first modern business insurance platform, has officially launched. Embroker is a commercial lines platform that ...
InsurTech Startup Launches Lease Guarantee Platform in New York
TheGuarantors, a New York-based insurance tech startup founded in 2014, is seeking to make renting an apartment in New York easier for landlords, brokers and renters through its newly launched, ...
Brace for Impact: ‘Agile’ Leaders Needed to Reshape Insurance Industry, Educators Say
Disrupters such as the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, the sharing economy and fintech are reshaping the insurance industry and those who lead it. So when Carrier Management asked a sampling of ...
Not All ‘Optimization’ Is Price Optimization; Allstate’s CGR Proves It
"The purpose of price optimization is to extract as much profit as possible from policyholders, who are often required to purchase insurance policies," according to a February 2015 press release from ...
An Accident of the Rating Process: Allstate’s Cure Explained
In Part 1 of this article series, I described cost-based pricing used by actuaries, which includes business judgment—introducing differences between the technical price indication for a book of ...
About Those Rates: Why Allstate’s Rating Program May Not Be What It Seems
Actuaries occupy a quiet, arcane world, their debates obscure: Loss development factors: weighted vs. straight? Premium impact: parallelogram vs. extension of exposures? Reserve methods: chain ladder ...
‘Silicon Valley Is Coming’: InsureTech Connect Conference Roundup
There was a great turnout for the future of the insurance industry this week in Las Vegas. The occasion was the first InsureTech Connect Conference, which brought together an estimated 1,500 tech ...
Verifly CEO Seeks to Carve Out ‘On-Demand’ Niche in Drone Insurance Market
The idea of drone insurance would have been far-fetched not that long ago. Enter entrepreneur Jay Bregman, a longtime drone and radio-controlled aircraft enthusiast. He's the CEO and co-founder of ...