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Transforming for Growth: MAPFRE USA’s Debashish Duttaroy

MAPFRE USA is transforming technology to support growth and product innovation in its traditional lines of business, with an emphasis on systems consolidation, advanced analytics, enhanced agent and customer experience and a shift to the cloud.

Posted: Feb 20, 2025

Accounting Matters as Vendor Ownership Models Shift

Changes in how the vendor world operates may be less obvious and yet have important implications for how insurance carriers manage large, transformational, efforts in the future.

Posted: Feb 16, 2025

Insurance Advisory Firms Embrace Data-Driven Insights, Self-Service, and Unbiased Expertise in 2025

As M&A drives evolution, firms are leveraging advanced technologies, developing comprehensive data platforms, and maintaining their role as unbiased experts to provide more valuable and accessible insights to their clients in the rapidly transforming...

Posted: Feb 13, 2025

Why Would Tesla Be Comfortable Entering Insurance?

Insurers struggle to build more integrated, adaptive and intelligent products and services so it makes sense for car manufacturers to sideline the insurer and do it themselves.

Posted: Feb 12, 2025

Insurance Wrapped: Looking Back to Prepare for What’s Next in 2025

By leveraging advanced technologies like AI, insurers will be better able to serve their customers and adopt faster and easier processes overall, and especially in claims.

Posted: Feb 10, 2025

Meeting Evolving Cyber Threats: Q&A with Mario Vitale, President of Resilience

Founded in 2016, the tech-enabled MGA has grown to serve enterprises with some of the largest and most complex cyber exposures.

Posted: Feb 06, 2025

Back Up Your Metadata

By recognizing metadata as a critical asset and incorporating it into backup plans, businesses can enable vendor portability, enhance system resilience, ensure continuity in the face of disruptions, and strategically iterate on their business practic...

Posted: Feb 02, 2025

Service Is King: GIC Underwriters Automates Broker Inquiries with Indemn AI

The tech-oriented commercial and personal lines broker saw the opportunity for Indemn’s AI-driven Broker Portal Assistant to bring its home-grown chat-based technology to a new level.

Posted: Jan 30, 2025

Considering AI and Real-World Consequences

The need for guardrails and effective governance mechanisms has likely never been greater than it is now, lest insurance carriers land on the front page of the Wall Street Journal for all the wrong reasons.

Posted: Jan 26, 2025

Creating Products that Customers are Desperate for at Boston Mutual Life

Director of Innovation Natalie Neelan talks about coming up with viable, desirable and feasible ideas, and communicating their value internally.

Posted: Jan 23, 2025

LA Wildfires: A Tipping Point for the Insurance Industry?

This may well be the tipping point for a complete transformation of the property insurance market and the federal and state agencies who need to become part of the solution.

Posted: Jan 23, 2025

Work From Home Must Be a Two-Way Street

Successful WFH requires being passionately dedicated to constant, open, honest, transparent, two-way sharing of information between employers, employees and customers/stakeholders.

Posted: Jan 19, 2025

The LA Fires: Loss Control, Pricing Properly, and the California FAIR Plan

If anything good is to result from the personal and financial tragedy that is the 2025 Los Angeles fires, both the public and private sector should focus on better loss control, pricing properly, and putting the FAIR plan on a sound actuarial foundat...

Posted: Jan 13, 2025

5 Trends: How the Insurance Industry Can Navigate a Dynamic 2025 Marketplace

The continued growth of AI and its rapid adoption by businesses and customers alike present exciting opportunities for innovation and growth, even as our industry continues to navigate the challenges of inflation and difficult markets.

Posted: Jan 12, 2025

GlobalData PLC Acquires Celent: A Data-Driven Future for Insurance Advisory

Data-driven insights and expertise combine as GlobalData PLC acquires industry analyst firm.

Posted: Jan 09, 2025

Charles Taylor Opens Office in Rio de Janeiro

The Rio de Janeiro office represents the adjusting proposition of Charles Taylor’s Natural Resources Team, which offers tailored services for complex claims in the energy, mining, and natural resource sectors.

Posted: Jan 09, 2025

SBLI Partners with Swiss Re to Enhance Underwriting Innovation with Ease

The Underwriting Ease solution is a state-of-the-art digital tool that summarizes key aspects of risks to underwriters, accelerating decisioning beyond automation.

Posted: Jan 08, 2025

Deep Vector Raises $1.5M for AI-Driven Insurance Data Extraction Solution

Over 30 of the top 100 insurance brokerages and many carriers, underwriters, MGAs, and brokers have adopted the technology of the company formerly known as Loss Scan.

Posted: Jan 08, 2025

Farm Bureau Insurance Company of Idaho Selects Akur8’s Core Platform Solution

The solution will enhance predictive modeling to improve the insurer’s actuarial team’s efficiency and accuracy, empowering them to deliver better, more informed pricing decisions.

Posted: Jan 07, 2025

BetterLife and CSA Fraternal Life Announce Merger Plan

The organizations will leverage community values, Czech and Slovak heritage for future growth.

Posted: Jan 07, 2025

Ascot Names Bruce Sikorski Group Head of Corporate Services

Sikorski will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of Ascot’s global facilities, ensuring optimal functionality, safety, sustainability and consistency across sites.

Posted: Jan 07, 2025

Sollers, mea Platform Partner to Promote Underwriting and Claims Automation

The companies aim to improve underwriting and claims management and accelerate the associated processes in the London Market.

Posted: Jan 07, 2025

Evolution Risk Partners Boosts Risk Projection Capabilities with Gradient AI

The MGU fills gaps in data and claims with AI-driven insights to offer tailored solutions for customers seeking alternative funding options.

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

OWIT Global Announces Alternative Delivery Models

The vendor now delivers solutions via SaaS, client on-premise/VPC, and as a hybrid—part hosted, part on-premise/VPC.

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

FM Announces Acquisition of Velocity Specialty Insurance Company

Through the transaction, FM will acquire a leading excess & surplus insurance business to expand and enhance its current and future solutions.

Posted: Jan 06, 2025