Content from Russ Banham
Russ Banham is a veteran insurance reporter, business journalist and best-selling author.
How to Value an InsurTech
Next year, Chubb (tracing its roots back to the birth of the Insurance Company of North America) will turn 230 years old, an extraordinary feat of longevity that partly explains why it's the world's ...
Is Loop the Future of Automobile Insurance?
The annual ATECH Conference in Aruba is promoted as, "Where Tech, Innovation, and Creativity Meet to Become the Future." At the 2015 conference, two young tech entrepreneurs, Carey Anne Nadeau and ...
An Alternative View: Crediting Credit Scores
While InsurTechs like Loop and Buckle are trying to reshape the future of insurance without using credit scores to underwrite or price policies, the rest of the industry has yet to embrace the ...
ESG in Insurance Underwriting: European Insurers Lead the Way
There's a gripping moment in Shakespeare's "Othello" when Cassio, hoodwinked by Iago into losing Othello's trust, repeats, "Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have ...
CM Exclusive: Google’s Insurance Strategy Could Be a Game Changer
The announcement that Dr. Henna Karna, formerly global chief data officer at insurer AXA XL, had been retained by Google to lead a new insurance initiative was greeted by the insurance and InsurTech ...
Ranking U.S. Insurers: How They Score on ESG Performance
For the past several years, environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors have figured prominently in the investment decisions of institutional investors, pension funds and shareholders. The ...
A Time to Shine: How Insurance CROs Stepped Up to COVID Challenges
At a time of great crisis, chief risk officers have stepped forward to bring their unique skillsets to bear in assessing the strategic and financial impact of both the pandemic and the recession and ...
Lemonade Aftertaste: Will Reinsurers Keep Covering Unprofitable InsurTechs?
The IPO of Lemonade in July highlights the value of leveraging ample reinsurance to move from startup phase to a public company, which the online provider of renters insurance pulled off in a scant ...