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, the association of state insurance regulators, has issued a 90-day call for collection of property and casualty coverage data at a zip code level of detail, to better understand climate change effects on the market. The group expects the call to yield insight on insurance availability and affordability.
March 12 -
Data analysis consultant Martin Ellingsworth points to gaps between standard vehicle prices and their values as exposing insurers to excessive risk.
March 11 -
Gammons will lead WTW's claims closure solutions team, joining from Marsh. She previously worked in claims programs at Willis for 13 years.
March 8 -
The commercial insurer expects to improve appraisal accuracy and claims resolution efficiency through using the Uveye AI-powered vehicle inspection platform.
March 7 -
Deepa Soni, chief information officer and head of technology, data, analytics and cyber at The Hartford, will bring her tech leadership experience to the company's operations following the departure of John Kinney.
March 4 -
The Arizona-based insurtech startup has grown to serve over 30 states in five years with its platform that makes a variety of business insurance offerings available all in one place.
March 4 -
Clyde & Co. insurance industry M&A report shows a drop from 2022 to 2023, but a recent recovery that could power a rebound this year.
March 1 -
Hyperexponential recently received new venture capital funding, supporting its effort to modernize underwriting pricing tools and models.
February 28 -
Increased cyberattack risks due to Gen AI is convincing many types of commercial enterprises to get cybersecurity insurance coverage.
February 26 -
The home maintenance and management company Fixle, incubated by American Family, will retain the support of the insurer's venture capital arm as a minority investor.
February 26 -
Insurers should look at governance policies, operations methods and modeling to pre-emptively keep bias and drift out of AI handling of underwriting and pricing, an expert on the technology recommends.
February 22 -
Willis Towers Watson's Sean Scranton responded to Digital Insurance questions about insurance companies' cybersecurity practices in relation to Gen AI.
February 21 -
Bad actors have already made use of the new technology to power cyber attacks. The insurance industry can use the same technology to proactively detect attacks, guard sensitive personal data and establish defense patterns and methods.
February 20 -
A new J.D. Power report points to rising premiums and difficulties in getting coverage as reasons for a chill on auto insurance consumers shopping and switching habits. Digital Insurance spoke with Stephen Crewdson of the automotive data company.
February 13 -
The new NC Tech / MetLife Center for Technology Workforce Innovation will leverage the insurer's pre-existing tech hub in the state to support the technology industry group.
February 13 -
Azim Esmail of ATB Ventures spoke with Digital Insurance about the use of digital identity technology to guard against vulnerabilities in the decentralized identity approach.
February 12 -
Proposed bill in Utah state legislature can be interpreted as freeing drivers with right-of-way in accidents from liability. The bill has raised the ire of the American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA), which says it could raise auto insurance claims costs and rates.
February 9 -
Pinpoint Predictive, a predictive analytics service launched in 2021, helps carriers better understand the risks they're taking on with clients.
February 7 -
General insurance company uses low-code platform service to build its own workflow and case management capabilities.
February 6 -
The medical professional liability insurer will implement Origami Risk's SaaS platform for policy, billing and claims processes.
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