Insurance Built a Model for the Wrong Kind of Natural Disaster By Siddhartha Jha With secondary perils accounting for 92% of losses, traditional catastrophe reinsurance architecture is fundamentally misaligned with modern risk.
AI Agents Transform Buying Behavior in Financial Services By Rahul Kumar Agentic commerce is transforming financial services as AI agents evaluate products. Institutions must now compete for algorithmic visibility.
How to Analyze International Insurance Programs By Arthur Michelino International brokers now have a tool to diagnose program connectivity: Adjacency mapping transforms intuition into measurable structural analysis.
The Wasted Effort in Commercial Insurance Renewals By Afroz Mohammed Despite advances in AI and automation, commercial insurance still rebuilds the same risk information from scratch every renewal cycle.
What Commercial Clients Ask Agents About AI By Afroz Mohammed Commercial insurance clients now expect agents to articulate how AI strengthens account management, moving expectations beyond traditional placement.
Severe Convective Storms Drive Record Insurance Losses By Andrew Higgins Severe convective storms caused over $200 billion in losses since 2023, demanding businesses adopt AI-driven mitigation strategies.
May 2026 ITL FOCUS: Workers' Comp By Insurance Thought Leadership ITL FOCUS is a monthly initiative featuring topics related to innovation in risk management and insurance.
GenAI Reshapes Workers' Comp By Insurance Thought Leadership GenAI is transforming workers' compensation strategy as insurers navigate rising costs, market pressures, and demands for differentiation.
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.