Digital Insurance

BMW and SAP join forces to build German auto data alliance

The platform will enable German car manufacturers and their suppliers to identify production bottlenecks or parts shortages, helping them to avoid some of the production outages seen earlier this year due to coronavirus lockdowns.

Posted: Dec 01, 2020

10 steps to achieving insurance data literacy

The terms 'digital' and 'data' are often conflated or are used interchangeably, but they represent very different facets in the journey companies are taking.

Posted: Dec 01, 2020

How to rework insurance data models

When choosing a data model design pattern, it’s important to understand both the problems and the potential solutions the design pattern offers.

Posted: Nov 30, 2020

Insurers win most — but not all — COVID-19 business-loss lawsuits

Overall, the industry could face at least $100 billion in total underwriting losses from the pandemic, Lloyd’s of London predicted in May.

Posted: Nov 30, 2020

Cambridge Mobile Telematics powers Branch, HSB expands IoT to Canada: Roundup

Also: New digital leader at PEMCO; AXA XL, more.

Posted: Nov 30, 2020

Insurer and wealth manager taps first Black female CEO

For its next leader, Ohio National turned to a veteran executive with prior experience leading its independent broker-dealer.

Posted: Nov 25, 2020

How insurance companies can adapt to increased remote work

The pandemic has uncovered some little-known facts about remote work that insurers and related organizations can capitalize on.

Posted: Nov 25, 2020

Metromile latest insurtech to go public after merger

Metromile will combine with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, called Insu Acquisition Corp II.

Posted: Nov 24, 2020

Destination AI: Augmented automated underwriting and life insurance

AAU enables underwriters to spot patterns and connections that are either invisible to the human eye or which take normal, human-assisted processes large amounts of time and resources to identify.

Posted: Nov 24, 2020

Zurich in talks to buy MetLife’s U.S. home, car insurance unit through Farmers

The deal could fetch close to $4 billion and be announced as early as December.

Posted: Nov 23, 2020

4 digitalization trends in P&C claims

The extraordinary events of 2020 have placed new demands on claims that have played an important role in accelerating the digital transformation in this area.

Posted: Nov 23, 2020

Access Denied: Representation

The hurdles faced by Black professionals who break into the financial services belie the notion that their small numbers at the industry’s top ranks are a pipeline problem.

Posted: Nov 23, 2020

COVID-19 accelerates shift from agents: J.D. Power

‘Misalignment and poor execution’ at agent carriers prevented proper pandemic adaptation.

Posted: Nov 23, 2020

Allstate shuns big banks for bond sale to focus on diversity

Diverse firms are making more progress in the corporate bond market in 2020 amid a social reckoning on racial issues.

Posted: Nov 20, 2020

These places are bound to burn and people keep moving there

Of the 15 counties with the highest risk of fire by 2050, two-thirds have growing populations.

Posted: Nov 20, 2020

Women in Insurance Leadership: NEXT 2020

Digital Insurance introduces a quartet of young leaders on the rise in insurance.

Posted: Nov 19, 2020

WIL NEXT 2020: Next Insurance's Christina Pfeiffer

Christine Pfeiffer is head of operations for Next Insurance, joining the small-business insurtech in 2017. She oversees operations and customer support, having been responsible for increasing automation in the customer journey to help it scale up. Th...

Posted: Nov 19, 2020

WIL NEXT 2020: Next Insurance's Christine Pfeiffer

Christine Pfeiffer is head of operations for Next Insurance, joining the small-business insurtech in 2017. She oversees operations and customer support, having been responsible for increasing automation in the customer journey to help it scale up. Th...

Posted: Nov 19, 2020

WIL NEXT 2020: Ann Shepard, AP Intego

Ann Shepard is head of product and customer experience for digital broker AP Intego. She is responsible for delivering the company's products through the partnerships it makes with companies like Intuit and Square. Before AP Intego, she worked for Ag...

Posted: Nov 19, 2020

WIL NEXT 2020: CSAA's Laurna Castillo

Laurna Castillo is VP, Western State Product for CSAA Insurance Group. In this role, she is responsible for nine State Product Managers managing the long-term growth of their markets. Castillo also led CSAA’s Wildfire Risk Management project, bringin...

Posted: Nov 19, 2020

WIL NEXT 2020: Alex Lanning, CBIZ Benefits and Insurance Services

Alexandra Lanning is director of communications for CBIZ Benefits & Insurance Services. Her collegues regard her as confident and possessing excellent instincts, which led to her leading the company's coronavirus/COVID-19 task force. Before that, she...

Posted: Nov 19, 2020

Motion Auto's Denese Ross is ready to launch

The telematics insurtech is launching during COVID, but that doesn't deter chief underwriting officer's enthusiasm for its potential.

Posted: Nov 19, 2020

Hippo's Nicole Perrault reduces risk at home and work

Insurtech's chief risk officer is confident that the high-touch infrastructure Hippo has built can adapt in a positive manner to the post-coronavirus era.

Posted: Nov 19, 2020

Tawana Scott stands up SageSure's commercial lines launch

A team of one, she bounces back and forth from developing coverage and forms, defining underwriting eligibility and guidelines, and providing subject matter expertise to software development.

Posted: Nov 19, 2020

Selective's Brenda Hall credits love of learning for success

Commercial lines COO also spearheaded data and analytics strategy.

Posted: Nov 18, 2020