From Vision to Product (Part 2) By Patrick Tsao There is an opportunity to vertically integrate and position insurance products as a part of a lifestyle instead of as standalone purchases.
From Vision to Product (Part 1) By Patrick Tsao To thoroughly understand the idea of a product vision, it is important to also understand two other concepts: strategy and tactics.
How to Catch the Underwriter's Attention By Jeffrey Canfield A typical excess & surplus lines (E&S) underwriter may review 16 to 20 submissions a day, so getting to the top of the pile is critical.
How to Use AI in Underwriting By Silke Genuit Here is a fully automated underwriting process—solving major challenges in structuring, extracting and analyzing unstructured data.
Disruption of Rate-Modeling Process By David Wechsler An enhanced view into personalized data may be one of the most interesting opportunities in the insurance market to date.
How to Speed Up Product Development By Tom Hammond As technology speeds the pace of daily life and business, the product development cycle continues to represent a drag on P&C insurers.
AI Offers Big Step Up in Underwriting By John Cusano Cognitive robotics can address service requests from agents, anomaly detectors can flag issues and AI can spot product opportunities.
How Do Actuarial, Data Skills Converge? By Anand Rao By 2030, automated underwriting will become the norm, and new sources of data may be incorporated into underwriting.
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.