Michael Shashoua is Senior Editor at Digital Insurance. He joined the site in April 2022, after working as a marketing communications writer specializing in financial technology and data management for companies including GoldenSource, FIS, Thomson Reuters, Rimes, Bloomberg, DTCC and Vested. Previous to this, he edited Inside Reference Data at Incisive Media (now Infopro Digital) for five years and deputy edited WatersTechnology at Incisive. He also covered financial technology for Global Investment Technology until 2009. His interests include comedy, podcasting, music, movies and arts and entertainment in general.
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NAIC's project to classify insurers' bond holdings brings quick response from the data provider, launching its classification solution.
June 27 -
Complexities in coverage that is offered, along with cost, keeps some from having adequate or even any coverage.
June 26 -
The complexity of subrogation, an immature cyber insurance market and lack of guidance are all contributing to challenges in responding to claims for cyberattack losses.
June 25 -
Consumer Watchdog says California wildfire insurance coverage proposal lacks benefits for residents.
June 24 -
Better systems and tools for operational data can be challenging for insurers of all sizes.
June 23 -
Casey Kempton, president of personal lines at Nationwide, addressing the Insurtech Insights conference, said carriers should work to educate policyholders about what to expect from weather claims.
June 10 -
The digital payments network serving insurers' claims and premium payments saves carriers operations costs and expedites claim payouts.
June 2 -
Edison Fong brings a global and actuarial perspective to the reinsurer's partnership and development plans.
May 29 -
As executive vice president and head of global business solutions, she has improved technical capabilities for the insurer's customers, staff and stakeholders.
May 27 -
The home inventory data management platform has added features plus enhanced AI capability to detect items and compile information automatically.
May 27 -
The latest TransUnion report on insurance shopping trends found, like J.D. Power's research, that auto insurance shopping has increased again after dropping at the end of 2023.
May 22 -
Megan Sharpe, vice president for direct to consumer media and strategy at Gerber Life has seen the insurer through internal and external, to better support one-on-one marketing to policyholders.
May 19 -
Consumer advocates engaged with insurance and climate change issues are asking NAIC, the association of state regulators, to share the data it will be collecting on property risk by mid-June.
May 16 -
The life insurer's head of corporate communications promotes its reliability and stability even as workforce trends change.
May 15 -
Michelle McLaughlin, executive vice president, middle market, and chief underwriting officer at Chub, heads a 60-person team underwriting for $6 billion in premiums.
May 14 -
Research by ACORD covering 10 years of M&A activity by insurance carriers found that property and casualty deals did best at deriving value, while life insurers saw the most value destruction from mergers.
May 12 -
What began out of frustration with waiting to be verified to buy a car turned into an insurtech startup that now serves most of the U.S. for both auto and home insurance verification.
May 8 -
Insurance companies applying AI to handle claims functions are seeing changes for both their staffs and policyholders.
May 6 -
Applying AI to insurance claims processing improves its predictive analytics, use of predictive models and control of costs.
May 5 -
Of the four states with insurance commissioner elections this year, only North Carolina has one with competing candidates. A challenger is criticizing the two-term incumbent for rate hikes.
May 1
