Michael Shashoua

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.

Insurtech start-up went to full production with new funding in March, providing embeddable code insurers can use to run perks programs for their customers, including connections with perks providers and their offerings.

Swiss Re data-based underwriting tech executive Nanditha Nandy talks about the benefits and pitfalls of new technologies for the process of evaluating life insurance applicants.

Defections by U.S. states from NAIC's call for property market data reporting could widen the gap in insurance protection, climate risk solutions expert says.

Property and climate risk solution provider's new product pairs property data and AI assessments of roof images.

A series about Insurtech 2.0 as an evolution and movement, the data management foundations, and how advances will improve claims and underwriting.

The jury is still out on whether the California insurance regulator's plan to let insurers use catastrophe modeling for rates will make wildfire loss coverage more widely available.

The last in a three-part series on the meaning and future of "Insurtech 2.0" explores what technology advances could mean for insurers' claims and underwriting functions.

Second in a three-part series on the meaning and future of "Insurtech 2.0" covers what benefits are possible, where to find them and when to expect progress.

This first part of a three-part series on the meaning and future of "Insurtech 2.0" considers how this buzzword is defined and the evolution of technology in the insurance industry that it represents.

The organization of state regulators' Principles Based Bond Project is a response to the industry's shift away from stable Treasury bonds and toward more complex securities.