Building a Digital Field of Dreams By Denise Garth Can we design and build the insurance experiences that are meaningful for customers and the agents who serve them?
'Accountability' Is Not a 4-Letter Word By Kevin Trokey But "fail" is. And, to avoid failing, agents and brokers must reframe their approach to accountability so it isn't seen as a negative.
Emerging Risks With Long Tails By Donna Galer Brokers and risk managers should prepare for possible claims many years from now related to climate litigation and "forever chemicals."
The New Mandate: 'Video or Vanish' By Yaron Dishon Communicating with customers via personalized videos can increase sales and lower churn while reducing the load for call centers.
Insurers Must Bond With Agents By Denise Garth The future is going to include stronger insurer/distributor relationships. Agents want it. Insurers need it. Customers will benefit from it.
Surest Path to Healthy Prospect Pipeline By Kevin Trokey Most agents never get around to asking clients for referrals to prospects--but even those who do almost always miss a key point.
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The Future of the Independent Agent By Kaitlyn Taylor The COVID-19 pandemic changed how we sell insurance and rewrote the role of the independent agent forever.
Lemonade's 'Synthetic Agent' Nonsense By Matteo Carbone Desperate for growth, Lemonade produces another howler: A lender receiving a 16% interest rate is presented as a (synthetic) agent.
Auto Insurance in an Existential Crisis By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers The 125-year-old, $300 billion U.S. auto insurance industry is caught between runaway inflation and strained consumer wallets.
The Promise of Continuous Underwriting By Bill Deemer Bobby Touran Typically, a risk is underwritten, bound... and forgotten. But new streams of data and automation allow for continuous underwriting.
Convergence and the Insurance Ecosystem By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers Companies must anticipate the future, innovate beyond their core and transform their capabilities as rapidly as technology allows.