Educating Clients on Summer Plumbing Risks By Paul Vacquier Vacant homes during summer travel face heightened water damage risk, positioning agents as trusted advisors through client guidance.
P&C Insurers Shift to Precision Underwriting By Scott Ham Softening pricing and returning competition force carriers to replace broad underwriting discipline with surgical precision.
How to Handle Homeowners Affordability Conversations By Nancy Germond As insurance costs strain homeownership dreams, agents must navigate affordability discussions with empathy rather than industry-focused explanations.
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.
Carriers Face Retention Problem By Diane Brassard James Ballot Record insurance shopping driven by economic stress forces carriers to shift from reactive pricing tactics to proactive retention strategies.
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.
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.
Insurance Risks Being Left Behind By Dominique Roudaut Widening protection gaps demand insurers transform from risk transfer to resilience providers or face existential decline.
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.