Underwriters of the Future: 100% Digitized or Super Human?
At Coterie Insurance, an MGU on a mission to bring speed and simplicity to small business insurance, a 100 percent digital underwriting process is in place. Coterie ...
Travels In Time: The Future of Commercial Underwriting
The theme of this edition, “Travels In Time: The Future of Commercial Underwriting,” introduces content about the use of AI and automation in commercial insurance underwriting.
In addition to intriguing AI-generated art, the pages of this edition describe commercial underwriting transformations at QBE North America, Nationwide and Coterie Insurance, introductions to some of their technology partners at Federato, NeuralMetrics and Planck, and a look into Munich Re’s innovative coverage offerings providing performance guarantees for AI providers. Risk-related updates on the insurability of cyber risk, the implications of social media addiction lawsuits and weather whiplash events are also included.
In This Issue
Travels in Time: The Future of Commercial Insurance Underwriting
Making Commercial Underwriting Transformation Happen: Meet the Technology Players
Carriers and MGUs like QBE NA, Nationwide and Coterie Insurance aren't going it alone as they carry out their missions to transform commercial insurance ...
AI Insurance Takes a Step Toward Becoming a Market
Back when Munich Re launched the industry's first insurance coverage for artificial intelligence (AI) at the end of 2018, the policy, aiSure, found few takers. In ...
The Road to 2032: Big Changes Ahead for Commercial Underwriters
Leaders of property/casualty insurance companies writing commercial insurance are expecting the world of property/casualty underwriting to look radically different by the ...
Commercial Underwriters on a Never-Ending Journey: Meet the Transformers
Carriers and MGUs have embarked on missions to transform experiences of overwhelmed commercial insurance underwriters and their frustrated distribution partners with ...
Underwriting
Underwriting the Transition: Chaucer, Moody's Break New Ground With ESG Scorecard
As corporations increasingly navigate the environmental, social and governmental (ESG) landscape, they require tools and benchmarking to help them meet their ESG targets. ...
The Future of P/C Underwriting: Shifting From Innovation to Operational Efficiency
With rising inflation and the prospects of a recession on the horizon, the present macroeconomic environment is forcing property/casualty underwriters to adapt to new ...
Broken Promises? Policyholders React to Cyber Insurer Exclusions, Claim Denials
Colonial Pipeline, JBS, Kaseya and other major attacks of last year have demonstrated that if ransomware wasn't already a common part of the global vocabulary, it ...
Actuaries vs. Underwriters: Behavioral Scientist Explains the Age-Old Battle
When a cognitive bias expert gave the keynote address at a Casualty Actuarial Society meeting in May, he called actuaries the unsung heroes and heroines of their property/casualty insurance ...
Critiquing Cyber Insurance
Josephine Wolff, associate professor of cybersecurity policy for The Fletcher School at Tufts University, who spoke to Carrier Management about growing gaps in ...
Pricing
Unlocking the Value of Intelligent Automation for Actuarial Ratemaking
Back in the day doesn't mean what it used to. In most cases, that phrase refers to a time many years ago. But with the world changing as quickly as it is, back in the day ...
Avoiding the Black Box: How to Apply Machine Learning to Actuarial Pricing
Applying machine learning to pricing and actuarial workflows is becoming easier due to advances in technology and increasingly accessible platforms. These complex ...
InsurTech Profiles
Leading in an Industry He Once Shunned, wefox CEO Aims to Make Insurance Fast and Simple
When Julian Teicke was a teenager, the lavish events his insurance broker father attended with other successful agents struck him as out of proportion to their essential ...
Leadership and Management
8 Tips to Help Prevent Quiet Quitting
At least half of the U.S. workforce is "quiet quitting," according to Gallup. These workers are still fulfilling their basic job duties, but they're no longer willing to put in extra (unpaid) hours, ...
Going the Distance: How P/C Insurers Can Put Strategic Plans Into Action
I think everyone will agree that planning what direction a company will take for the next few years takes a bit of effort. After all the ...
Congress Examines Insurer Diversity; Results 'Disappointing,' Lawmakers Say
The insurance industry still has a lot of work to do when it comes to diversity, equity and inclusion. In fact, despite a strong DEI push across the industry, there was little change in racial, ...
Technology and Automation
Learning to Time Travel: Why Insurers Should Embrace Both the Future and the Past
The first insurance company in the U.S., The Friendly Society, was established in Charleston, S.C., in 1735, according to the Insurance Information Institute's insurance ...
Embedded Insurance Is the Future, ITC Panelists Say
Panelists at the Insuretech Connect conference at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas this month claimed embedded insurance is the hottest topic in the insurance industry right now. While opinions may vary, it ...
Meet the New Kid on the Block: Embedded Insurance
There's a new kid on the InsurTech block, and it's seeking to make the insurance experience faster and more personalized with embedded insurance. Embedded insurance is an emerging area of the ...
Risk Alerts
Unsyncopated Clocks: 'Fire and Flood' Book Highlights Insurers' Climate-Change Late Show
Scientists have been sounding the climate-change alarm for decades. But despite these dire warnings, a large swath of the public still refuses to believe, and both policymakers and businesses have ...
What's Next: Are Social Media Addiction Lawsuits Just the Beginning?
The lead-up to mass litigation in the United States has a predictable sequence: Commercial enterprises unleash a new technology that delights consumers and garners handsome profits for ...
Here to Stay: Why 'Weather Whiplash' Is a Growing Concern for Insurers
If you think the weather these days feels like a seesaw, you're not alone. Consider the following: In Colorado last year, a prolonged spell of unusually warm, dry conditions and one of the deadliest ...
From the Editor
Looking Into the Future: Writing, Underwriting and Generative AI
In an age where anyone with a computer can be a graphic designer, it's no surprise that magazines are starting to experiment with using artificial intelligence to create ...