Cyber Insurers Working to Keep Up With Criminals
It's no question the cyber crime landscape is constantly evolving, keeping large and small businesses on their toes. But another industry is rapidly changing, and if businesses don't keep up, they ...
Forging Ahead: Getting Past Roadblocks
What’s the one thing that has you stuck going into 2022? What roadblock stands in the way of your company moving ahead with innovation, growth, customer service, whatever you set as your 2021 goal?
What is the destination that property/casualty insurers, reinsurers and InsurTechs want to reach together—as an industry—in 2022? What innovations will move the entire industry forward?
Carrier Management starts the conversation moving forward with our first digital magazine of 2022.
In This Issue
Underwriting
Gamified Underwriting: How Hiscox Is Transforming Training With an 'Underwriter Simulator'
Many business sectors are grappling with growth targets and the need to get the most out of highly skilled employees, and this is especially the case in sectors like financial services, where the ...
Executive Profile
An Innovator's Journey: From Star Litigator to Litigation Finance
For as long as he can remember, Chris Bogart has been interested in the law. As a schoolkid growing up in Toronto, Canada, he enjoyed the thrill of debating, articulating and defending his ideas ...
With an Eye on Transformation, IVANS CEO Holzworth Works and Plays Hard
IVANS CEO Reid Holzworth doesn't like golf, a traditional and relatively sedate sport that many other executives embrace. Instead, he rebuilds and races vintage cars and rides dirt bikes fast and ...
Leadership and Strategy
The Important Two-Letter Word Carriers Will Need to Use in 2022
One of the most important words insurance carriers will need to know heading into 2022 is simple: No. At least, that's according to Marie Carr, principal of global growth strategy, insurance and ...
Claims/Legal
Half of $17B Litigation Funding 'Industry' Money Spent in the U.S.: Swiss Re
Litigation funding has become a $17 billion industry globally, with 52 percent of that money being spent in the United States, Swiss Re said in a report released Thursday. The reinsurer said ...
Leadership and Management
The Value of a Handwritten Note
Do you remember the last handwritten note you received? Even more, do you remember the last handwritten note you sent? With our technologically enhanced communications, it is just so convenient to ...
Risk Alerts
More Entry Points, More Risk: The Tech Industry's Underwriting Challenge
The challenges faced by underwriters have grown immensely in recent years. For underwriters working specifically within the technology sector on errors and omissions (Tech E&O) coverage, the ...
Distribution
MGA Market 2022 Trend Watch: How to Secure London Capacity for U.S. Biz
MGAs thrive on delivering unique solutions for hard-to-place risks, with many companies quick to react to rapidly changing market dynamics. It is testament to the sector's resilience and adaptability ...
Humans or Machines: InsurTech Says Startups Want Both for Insurance Buys
Building on referrals from startup funding specialists like SVB Financial Group and Y Combinator, InsurTech startup Vouch has attracted thousands of startups seeking business coverages ranging from ...
Technology and Analytics
Underwriting Management: The Core System You've Been Missing
When we say "core systems" in our industry, we are typically referring to the critical software applications that are core to an insurer's business operations, mainly the policy, claims and billing ...
What's Next? 'Adaptive Insurance' for Small Biz, Says InsurTech CEO
Over the course of the last six years, Next Insurance has adapted its business model, its distribution method, and its product offerings. Coming up next, the InsurTech aims to offer "adaptive ...
COVID Fallout: Insurers Must Address Evolving Small Business Risks
During the past 18 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on thousands of U.S. small businesses and created unprecedented challenges for them as well as for their insurers. Amid numerous ...
P/C Insurers Less Bullish on Telematics: WTW Analytics Survey
Although property/casualty insurance carrier executives and technical professionals remain bullish on the prospect that advanced analytics can enhance growth and bottom-line performance, ...
From the Editor
Forging Ahead: Getting Past Roadblocks
Devoted readers of Carrier Management's magazine will remember that we ended the year with a special feature on geospatial information systems—a collection of technologies involved with mapping the ...