Executive Viewpoint
Executive Viewpoint: Five ESG Trends for the Insurance Industry in 2022
During the past year, "ESG" (or Environmental, Social, Governance) became a more familiar acronym in boardrooms, customer conversations and even in day-to-day internal discussions. This is rightfully ...
In 2022, Innovation Will Prevail
If the past two years have taught us anything, it's that agility and flexibility have been critical to reshaping how insurers step up for their customers to deliver support and satisfaction. As a ...
Executive Viewpoint: Climate Protection Requires Tech Innovation
The warning could not be more urgent. According to a recent assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), our world now risks missing the target for limiting global warming to ...
CEO Viewpoint: FEMA Flood Insurance Pricing Methodology Revamp a Positive Move
By now, you've probably heard of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's effort to revamp its method of assigning prices to the National Flood Insurance Program's policies, which took effect on ...
Executive Viewpoint: Top Reasons Insurers Decline Cyber Insurance
Insurers make money by assuming the business risks of their customers for a fee. They make a profit only if the estimated aggregate cost of the risk for all their customers is less than the aggregate ...
COVID Fallout: Insurers Must Address Evolving Small Business Risks
During the past 18 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on thousands of U.S. small businesses and created unprecedented challenges for them as well as for their insurers. Amid numerous ...
Employees Saying Adios to Carriers, Brokers Requiring Work in Office
During a session of an insurance industry webinar titled "State of the Insurance Marketplace," the war for talent was discussed just as much as the hard or moderating property/casualty insurance ...
Amazon and Agents: How Did Leaders Read The Tea Leaves?
Back in 2017, Next Insurance CEO Guy Goldstein wasn't envisioning that his InsurTech would launch a portal of insurance agents just two years later. When Carrier Management asked Goldstein, eight ...