Technology & Analytics
Where Can P/C Insurers Grow?
Property/casualty insurers on a mission to achieve strong growth over the next few years need to look beyond developed economies, a reinsurance broker advises in a new report. In the 10th edition of ...
Five Steps to Relevance
Insurers looking for strong insurance growth need to look beyond developed economies and they need to enter coverage areas for emerging risks like brand damage insurance, mortgage credit risks, and ...
Towers Watson Embraces the Cloud with $15M Canadian Tech Company Acquisition
Towers Watson will buy up a Canadian tech company for more than $15 million. The deal is designed to boost its insurance technology/cloud computing offerings for property/casualty carriers as well as ...
Hurricane Katrina’s Legacy
Hurricane Katrina was a deadly storm that caused a large loss to the insurance industry—but not so large that it shouldn't have been anticipated by the catastrophe models. In the months after this ...
P/C Insurers Blocking Their Own Roads to Innovation
Property/casualty insurers face a number of external obstacles on the road to delivering more innovative products and reimagining their operations, but the ones that really get in the way come from ...
Progressive Insurance CEO Renwick Sounds off on Big Insurance Trends
By his own admission Progressive Insurance CEO Glenn Renwick (and his company) may not be right about the impact certain macro trends will have on the insurance industry, but in his view "it's ...
‘B’ Is for Behavioral: What Big Data Means for Insurance
Big data is one of the signature issues of our time—and also one of the more poorly understood. Discussions of the topic often are clouded by what I call the "two dogmas of big data." The first is ...
Objects In Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear
I have a CD player in my relatively new luxury sports sedan. It plays five—or maybe six—CDs so I can be surrounded by music I choose and like all through even a reasonably long journey. Or maybe ...