February 2026 ITL FOCUS: Customer Experience By Insurance Thought Leadership ITL FOCUS is a monthly initiative featuring topics related to innovation in risk management and insurance.
Customers Are Getting Tetchy. What to Do? By Insurance Thought Leadership Many customers are dissatisfied with how insurers treat them and are increasingly shopping around. It's time to rethink the problem.
The Insurance Functions AI Chatbots Can't Replace By Marharyta Koftielieva AI chatbots streamline routine insurance tasks, but judgment calls, emotional nuance, and complex claims still demand human oversight.
AI Transforms Insurance Claims Operations By Tom Helm AI shifts insurance claims operations from fraud detection to customer service, shedding the industry's tech-laggard reputation.
Digital Payments Drive Insurance Customer Loyalty By Ian Drysdale Fast digital claims payments create customer loyalists who stay despite premium increases, new research shows.
Why Claims Experience Is the Real Differentiator By Faheem Shakeel Customer acquisition costs have surged 222%, and one poor claims experience can destroy trust and trigger churn.
AI Cannot Replace Human Trust in Insurance By Mykhailo Hrabovskyi Insurance industry's AI adoption reveals a critical gap: Algorithms optimize processes, but humans build trust.
How Auto Insurers Can Strengthen Retention By Henry Stroup Rising premiums are driving auto carriers to transform roadside assistance into a strategic retention tool through technology partnerships.
Changing Expectations on Mobile Payments By Julie Schieni 41% of millennials with insurance purchased it with their mobile device, and other generations are moving in that direction, too.
Are We Losing Our Negotiating Power? By Taylor Smith John Burge The plaintiff bar has investigated a staggering amount of money to improve its data on claims settlements. Insurance industry lawyers are way behind..
Continuous Improvement Comes to Insurance By Tom Bobrowski Process intelligence tools let operations leaders “see” digital products being built, enabling use of statistical process control techniques.
The Experience/Efficiency Paradox By Rory Yates Insurers must move from the manufacturing era (efficiency through administrative scale) to the ecosystem era (maximizing the value of a relationship).