Super Regional P/C Insurer Conference News
The Importance of Soft Skills in Data Science
When most insurers think of data science in their industry, naturally it is mostly about numbers and turning abstract data into correlations that become actionable business intelligence. However, ...
Common Misconceptions and 4 Other Reasons Cybersecurity Is Failing
Businesses are spending a small fortune on cybersecurity but what they are doing is not working very well, according to a cybersecurity expert who sees the insurance industry as a key to improving ...
P/C Insurance Carriers, InsurTechs Benefit on Multiple Levels From Partnerships
Startup InsurTechs need partnerships more than they need money from insurance carriers, according to one leading venture capitalist actively funding insurance technology firms. Venture firm XL ...
From Here to Autonomy: Morality and Retirement Timeline for Auto Insurance Pros
While the media, ethicists and perhaps the public like to ponder whether a self-driving car in a crisis should be programmed to hit a group of nuns crossing the street or hit a bus full of ...
Super Regional Carriers Gain by Educating ‘Suspicious’ Regulators About Tech Advances
"We're curious and we don't know. When regulators don't know what's going on, they get suspicious." That was Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Ted Nickel acknowledging that like the industry they ...
Markel Tells Super Regional Insurers: ‘Specialize and Diversify’
Insurance is a very simple business. "You take in some money, you spend some money and you lose some money, and God willing, you have some left at the end of the day," according to Anthony (Tony) ...