Insurance Thought Leadership

A Heyday for Independent Agents by Paul Carroll

At Insuretech Connect last week in Las Vegas, I was struck by all the love being shown for independent agents. Weren’t insurtechs supposed to disintermediate agents and put them out of business, not fall all over themselves to provide the be...

Posted: Oct 12, 2021

The Case for Cloud Computing by Ravi Krishnan

Insurers must regain competitive ground in the digital race for the customer, and all roads that make sense … lead to cloud adoption. Growing ransomware attacks should be the weight that tips the scales. T-Mobile was breached just recently. Half o...

Posted: Oct 07, 2021

Striking the Perfect Balance on AI by Heather Wilson

Artificial intelligence (AI) is hot. Fund...

Posted: Oct 06, 2021

Powering the Recovery by Paul Carroll

At last week’s Global Insurance Forum, Swiss Re Group CEO Christian Mumenthaler said the industry has been in a sort of hibernation for the past year and a half to two years, in terms of big deals and bold moves – but is about to wake up. “I think...

Posted: Oct 04, 2021

State of the Insurance Marketplace by Kimberly George

The insurance marketplace has been changing rapidly, with the economy having a significant impact on both carriers and businesses, including employers, public entities and the middle market. So, what are the implications for the industry? And what...

Posted: Oct 04, 2021

How Insurance Can Be Like a Smartphone by Paul Carroll

The theory goes that, in time, every industry becomes a technology industry. Well, what if we thought of insurance as akin to an electronic device and gave it an operating system, like what we’ve seen in recent decades with computers and sma...

Posted: Sep 27, 2021