The Myth of the Protection Gap By Paul Carroll If you look at the protection gap from the customer standpoint, there isn't a gap. We're just kidding ourselves.
New-Era Cars – Do They Spell Doom? By Venkat Ramachandran At the least, innovations in cars will force insurers to rethink their business models in four key ways.
Microinsurance Model in Non-Standard Auto? By Libby Evans Can we learn from microinsurance programs and make auto insurance accessible to foreign-born, non-licensed residents in the U.S.?
A Word With Shefi: Ashili at Smart Drivinc By Shefi Ben Hutta Smart Drivinc aims to provide peace of mind to parents and others by developing affordable, crash-prevention technologies.
What the U.K. Can Teach on Aggregators By Venkat Ramachandran Aggregators collect lots of highly useful data -- but can, for instance, be used by consumers to try what-if scenarios and game their risk ratings.
$60 Billion Elephant in the Room By Ted Chen More than half of car accidents may now stem from phone-related distracted driving, according to a survey of agents -- a huge increase.
Fascinating Patent Filing Are you sweating, yelling or waving your arms while you drive? State Farm’s “emotion management system” would know, based on biometrics.
What GoogleCompare Shows on LeadGen By Jeffrey Chesky LeadGen sites like GoogleCompare deliver a bad customer experience and raise privacy issues. Instead, a new type of agent is needed.
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.