Technology & Analytics
Humans or Machines: InsurTech Says Startups Want Both for Insurance Buys
Building on referrals from startup funding specialists like SVB Financial Group and Y Combinator, InsurTech startup Vouch has attracted thousands of startups seeking business coverages ranging from ...
Swiss Re Joins China’s Baidu to Develop Insurance for Autonomous Driving
Swiss Re and Chinese tech giant Baidu are teaming up to further develop the autonomous driving industry, announced Swiss Re. The partnership between Swiss Re and Baidu aims to further develop the ...
Eyes in the Sky and Beyond: Why Geospatial Information Matters to Insurers
When Mike Fitzgerald, the principal insurance analyst for CB Insights, talks about geospatial technology and its applications in property/casualty insurance, he finds it challenging to restrain his ...
Underwriting Management: The Core System You’ve Been Missing
When we say "core systems" in our industry, we are typically referring to the critical software applications that are core to an insurer's business operations, mainly the policy, claims and billing ...
Seeing Through Clouds: Why Now Is the Time for Geospatial Technology in Insurance
The prospect of property/casualty insurers and reinsurers adding information from geospatial imagery to their toolkits for underwriting, product development and claims handling isn't an entirely new ...
Beyond Claims: How Carriers Use Geospatial Analytics to Underwrite Property
If there is a bright side to the tumultuous ride that was 2020, it's the surprisingly agile turn property insurers took to move away from traditional reactive approaches toward more proactive ...
A Top-Down View of Insurance Risk: Understanding the Geospatial Insurance Consortium
One of the best-kept secrets about the property/casualty insurance industry is a member-centric organization that manages the largest aerial imagery program in the world. That's right. The world's ...
Found in Space: How Skytek Tracks Supply Chain Risks—and More
Oil spills, port explosions, blockages in the Suez Canal and supply chain risks. These are just some of the events that global space company Skytek has analyzed over the past year for its insurance ...