Are You Ready for the Next Disaster? By Mike Manes Here are 10 questions that will tell you whether you and your business are prepared for a natural disaster -- and help you get ready.
Hard Lessons From the Louisiana Flooding By Mike Manes Exercise this risk-management discipline: Imagine that 70% of your city is gone tomorrow? What do you do?
Why Sustainability Is Becoming Big By Mark Fishbaugh Evidence is mounting that companies with lower greenhouse gas emissions perform better on average. But why?
How to Make Flood Insurance Affordable By Howard Kunreuther Wendy Zhao Jeffrey Czajkowski A combination of government vouchers and risk-based pricing shows promise.
Is Flood Map Due for a Big Data Make-Over? By Peter Williams The Internet of Things and big data technologies could turn the flood map into a poster child for the idea of smart cities.
A 'Perfect Storm' of Opportunity (Part 2) By John Dickson The good news is that private flood options are continuously coming to market, and considerations extend beyond price.
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.
What to Do When Catastrophes Go Viral By Lori Brassell-Cicchini To avoid getting left behind, companies need to prepare for how they will communicate using social media when a catastrophe strikes.
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.
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.