Michael Shashoua

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.

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.

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.

The life insurer's head of corporate communications promotes its reliability and stability even as workforce trends change.

Michelle McLaughlin, executive vice president, middle market, and chief underwriting officer at Chub, heads a 60-person team underwriting for $6 billion in premiums.

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.

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.

Insurance companies applying AI to handle claims functions are seeing changes for both their staffs and policyholders.

Applying AI to insurance claims processing improves its predictive analytics, use of predictive models and control of costs.

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.

Travelers' latest distracted driving risk index shows a continued increase, but tech providers and developers are using the biggest source of the problem to help fight it.

Healthcare, research and technology professionals are collaborating to get insights about distracted driving from accident data, and using these to address insurance risks.

AI has great risks for underwriters but also great potential benefits, according to Randy Paez, chief information officer of Ambac. Paez spoke with Digital Insurance about how to leverage data and integrate AI into insurance operations.

The insurtech development program, seeing frequent participation from Americas-based startups, dedicates latest cohort to regional entries.

Laws against inducements and referral fees are among the obstacles for carriers looking to distribute coverage by embedding it in other channels.

Startup life insurance brokerage launched in 2021 adds new capability as it expands its reach of carriers and agents using the service.

Insurers embedding coverage in other venues are finding the practice adds risks, and agents point to their value for interpreting coverage to policy buyers.

The one-year-old startup, which recently had a $500,000 funding round with Metaprop and others, helps identify properties that are better protected against natural perils.

Third-party data is a key element for calculating insurers' profitability, even when drilling down into the specifics of what the carrier is underwriting. Bryan Adams of Arch Insurance spoke about how the firm manages its third-party data and data suppliers.

Insurer's finances caused the cuts, according to a policyholder advocate. Cat models still have issues, though, the advocate says.