Underwriting & Pricing
Majority of Smart Home Device Owners Willing to Share Data With Insurers—for a Discount
While privacy remains a concern, 78 percent of smart home device owners are open to sharing their data with their insurer to assist in policy pricing, but most (65 percent) would only do so if ...
Extreme Weather: Building Resilience for Rising Risks
The insurance industry has a responsibility to assume a "leadership role in creating and promoting resilience as the first line of defense" against natural disasters, an industry leader said ...
How Pay-Per-Mile Insurance Is Evolving
As automakers race to develop and test autonomous vehicles for longer and more complex trips, insurers offering unique types of auto insurance coverage aren't worrying about disruption. Dan Preston, ...
Can Violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act Be Insured?
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) took effect on Jan. 1, 2020, and compliance departments across the United States now have some work to do. This is especially ...
XCover and XClaim: The Nuts and Bolts of Cover Genius
Cover Genius has a broad vision: To protect all the customers of the world's largest online companies. According to the InsurTech's website, it currently sells "millions of policies per year in ...
Why Insurers Struggle to Turn Data Into Actionable Intelligence for Strategy Moves
Artificial intelligence is having a positive impact on the industry. There are substantial use cases in almost every part of the insurance business, from policy administration and claims to customer ...
How to Evaluate Imagery-Based AI Solutions
It's been broadly established that imagery-derived data provides benefits to both property insurers and reinsurers, across a variety of use cases. These use cases touch most aspects of the carrier ...
Did You Know? Auto and Renters Risks Correlated
To Alex Timm, CEO of Root Insurance Company, the auto insurance carrier's recent move into the renters insurance market seemed like a natural extension for its customer base given that 70 percent of ...