The Future of Life Insurance By Tony Boobier All the innovation seems to be going into P&C. Life and pension insurers need to step up the pace by considering five key issues.
Why Healthcare Costs Soar (Part 2) By Tom Emerick David Toomey Healthcare providers have processes that are wildly inefficient -- but that can be fixed with a little input from self-insured employers.
Endangered Individual Health Market By Alan Katz The individual health insurance marketplace is endangered, and policymakers need to start thinking about a fix right now.
How to Reach Millions With Life Insurance By Dianne Schuetz There are now 3 million patients at 7,000 retail healthcare clinics in the U.S. -- and all could become centers for selling life insurance.
How Likely Is Zenefits to Change? By Alan Katz Not especially. Zenefits, its values and its culture reflect those of Silicon Valley. That is both a blessing and a curse in insurance.
Medical Marijuana's Growing Pains By Galen Hayes As the medical marijuana industry grows beyond infancy, here are three important liability concerns for you and your clients.
Why Healthcare Costs Rise So Fast By Tom Emerick Healthcare costs keep rising faster than general inflation because employers are afraid of even a few complaints by disrupted employees.
1 Myth, 2 Truths, 5 Hot Trends in Health IT By Sanjeev Agrawal Health providers will adopt IT in a big way, reinventing electronic health records, making systems interoperable -- and much more.
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.