On Air Traffic Control and Health Costs By Sanjeev Agrawal With sophisticated air traffic control, JFK has gone from a few hundred flights a day to thousands. Hospitals can make the same leap.
Can Long-Term Care Insurance Survive? By Tony Steuer The answer is yes, but a lot of mistakes have been made, and the industry still needs to sort itself out.
The Yuuuuge Hidden Costs of Wellness By Al Lewis Wellness actually harms employees because it distracts people in human resources from doing their jobs.
InsurTech Can Help Fix Drop in Life Insurance By Amy Radin But innovators must first understand the causes of the drop and prioritize efforts that aim at solving the biggest issues.
Healthcare Costs: We've Had Enough! By Sally Pipes Twenty major companies have finally had enough of surging healthcare costs and have formed an alliance to attack the problem.
A Risk-Free Life Insurance Policy? (No) By Tony Steuer "Guaranteed" life policies are falling victim to low interest rates. Holders may see death benefits drop or premiums increase.
Radical Approach on Healthcare Crisis By Stephen Ambrose "Mandate" is a difficult word, but we may have to require that people be healthy, to get beyond our healthcare spending crisis.
Group Insurance: On the Path to Maturity By Marie Carr Jim Quick Group insurance is no longer a quiet sector of the industry; it is in the front lines of customer-centricity and technological innovation.
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.
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.