Content from Susanne Sclafane
InsurTechs vs. Incumbents: Trends to Watch
Panelists speaking at a recent Carrier Management Virtual Roundtable agreed that InsurTechs are sprinting ahead of insurance industry incumbents on the innovation spectrum but said that investments ...
P/C Tech Trends to Watch: CB Insights NExTT Framework
What's NExTT? It's a question that CB Insights analysts asked—and answered—in a recent report about trends in property/casualty insurance technology, finding that eight of the 17 emerging ...
A Carrier Management Special Event: Is Insurance Innovation Overrated?
Leaders working in property/casualty insurance and reinsurance agree that innovation is a business imperative for their firms, but each define the term slightly differently, and they say metrics to ...
Insurance Industry Ripe for Human-Centered Innovation
The key to innovation in the insurance industry is "outside-in" thinking, according to an executive from Nationwide, who uses the term to reinforce the idea that customer-centric mindsets are the ...
Betting on Breakthrough Innovation: Shoot for the Moon
While it is often easier for P/C insurance and reinsurance executives to rally around incremental innovations, in order to really transform their organizations they need to fund some moonshots, ...
Life Insurance Next for Lemonade: Auto on the Horizon
Lemonade plans to start selling term life insurance in the next 90 days, adding to its current rental, homeowners and pet insurance offerings, the company said in an earnings report released late ...
What Makes a Great Underwriter in 2020?
During a recent interview, CM asked QBE North America Chief Underwriting Officer John Beckman, a former chief actuary and chief risk officer, to talk about the qualities of the best ...
How We Did It: Becoming an InsurTech Unicorn
When InsurTech entrepreneurs like Assaf Wand, Max Simkoff and Dan Preston set out on the path of bringing groundbreaking ideas to life in the insurance industry, they heard a lot of negative talk ...