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Dispatches from InsurTech Survival Island: Five Takeaways From Statutory Financials (Part 2)
Statutory financial statements are painting an unattractive picture for three InsurTechs that have chosen to become real insurers so far. In Part 1 of this three-part article, we revealed that loss ...
Dispatches From InsurTech Survival Island: Five Takeaways From Statutory Financials (Part 1)
"All the insurance players will be InsurTech" is a phrase we have uttered on many occasions in the past few years, but some InsurTechs have chosen to be insurers. Real insurers. Which means they file ...
Stop Thinking Regional vs. National; Start Thinking Smarter About Technology
Regional or national? That's a question producers have long considered when deciding where to place their business—whether to go with a regional company that has close relationships with their ...
How Hippo Insurance Is Putting Homeowners Customers First
Remember when companies like Kayak, Netflix and Amazon quickly upended the travel, entertainment and retail industries? They created streamlined, user-friendly online experiences and found ways to ...
Flying Cars Will Ease U.S. Traffic Congestion in 10 Years: Uber CEO
Flying cars will be zipping across U.S. skies within the coming decade—at least that's what Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi predicted last month. "There will be ...
Cyber FICO Ratings Could Benefit Insurance Underwriting in Multiple Ways
Nearly 30 years ago the Fair Isaac Corporation ("FICO") first introduced its metric for measuring creditworthiness. Since then, the FICO Score has become a default metric used by countless market ...
Industry Needs to Join InsurTech Wave to Digitize Insurance: AFL’s Esser
There is a fundamental need for reform and modernization, particularly in the London market. We should be electronically processing all lines of business, not just specialty classes. Of course, we ...
The Content, Not the Technology, Determines the Success of Transformational CX Projects
News about ever-increasing dollars of InsurTech funding can't help but drive property/casualty insurers to seriously consider tech modernization projects to drive growth and efficiency in 2018. That ...