Brand Management & Sales
CEO Viewpoint: How Biz Insurers Can Jump on the E-Commerce Bandwagon
It seems like InsurTech has become the term du jour over the last nine months. It is often used to imply destruction, disintermediation, disruption and disaster (the four Ds) for the insurance ...
Iron-Excess Forms; MGA Is Based on Iron-Starr Excess Agency Model
Using a Bermuda joint venture between Ironshore and C.V. Starr & Company as a model, Ironshore announced the launch of Iron-Excess on Monday. Ironshore, a Liberty Mutual company, describes ...
The Zebra, an Auto Insurance Comparison Website, Nails Down $40M Series B Financing
The Zebra, an online auto insurance comparison marketplace, plans to use $40 million in new venture funding to double down on brand building, product expansion and customer outreach. Company ...
MGA Acquisitions Still Hot: GC Securities
With growth prospects becoming rarer in the continuing competitive insurance market, carriers are among three sets of buyers fueling a hot M&A environment for specialized managing general ...
Survivors and Game-Changers: Lemonade’s Schreiber Explains What Disruption Looks Like
During an insurance conference in late March this year, a chief executive officer shared the following separate ideas with an audience of InsurTech leaders and analysts: "If you set out to compete ...
Insurance Industry Aiming for Amazon’s High Bar, Bold Penguin CEO Says
This article is part of Carrier Management's series on the Future of Insurance. Ilya Bodner, CEO, Bold Penguin, notes the fast pace of change in technology—and customer demands—driving insurers ...
AI With a Human Touch: Hi Marley CEO Says Insurers Should Strive to Be Loved
This article is part of Carrier Management's series on the Future of Insurance. Mike Greene, CEO and Co-Founder, Hi Marley, says that "love" and "trust" aren't terms currently used by customers to ...
Capacity Is a Commodity, InsurTech Leader Says
This article is part of Carrier Management's series on the Future of Insurance. Mike Albert, Co-Founder, Ask Kodiak, sees some disrupters working around commercial insurance carriers instead of with ...