Technology & Analytics
The Impact of Subsidization on Commercial Auto Telematics Programs
For quite some time now, commercial auto carriers have debated the notion that there is an inverse relationship between the subsidization of telematics program costs and program performance. The idea ...
Raised on Breaches, Digital Natives Think Differently About Cyber Risk
The spring 2026 cyber incident affecting the Canvas Learning Management System couldn't have occurred at a worse time. As the end of the U.S. school year approached, students and educators suddenly ...
AI Pushes Underwriting Beyond Risk Selection to Prevention
Artificial intelligence may touch nearly every function of property and casualty insurance, but insurance executives say the technology's greatest value so far is in changing how underwriters ...
California Bill to Let Insurers Use Driver Telematics Mulled by Legislature
A California bill to enable carriers to offer auto insurance discounts for good driving behavior is making its way through state Legislature. Assembly Bill 311 would amend the state's bedrock ...
Insurance AI: What You Won’t Read in the Press Releases
I just got back from one of the largest insurance technology gatherings in the United States. Six thousand people. Two days. More AI pitches than I could count. Here is what I actually took from ...
5 Principles for Insurers: Testing Agentic AI’s Next Wave
When OpenClaw emerged publicly earlier this year, much of the reaction focused on risk. The open-source framework demonstrated how AI agents can autonomously navigate systems, execute multi-step ...
Wall Street Is Gaining Access to New Catastrophe Models to Help Predict Wars
As Wall Street races to incorporate war into its risk scenarios, the same people modeling natural catastrophes are now adapting their methodology to help investors, banks and insurers predict ...
Executive Viewpoint: What Telematics Got Wrong and What It Means for Commercial Auto
In 2012, I joined Direct Line Group's motor team to help build a telematics insurance product. The idea was simple: use real driving data to move beyond crude proxies—age, postcode, ...