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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Atidot, founded in Tel Aviv, applies AI to life insurance policy service and marketing to policyholders, so carriers can better understand customer needs.
November 28 -
The reinsurer is working on how to use Gen AI to support decision-making without letting it fully automate decisions. PwC and others also see claims and customer service applications for the technology.
November 27 -
Russell Higginbotham, CEO, Reinsurance Solutions at Swiss Re, shares the ways he sees application of technology to data, risk and communication changing the insurance industry.
November 22 -
For several years, Brooke Vemuri, vice president of business transformation and engineering at Legal & General America, the U.S. life insurance unit of the global financial company, has led improvements to the carrier's sales, onboarding and other operations processes.
November 20 -
Duncan Anderson, global technology leader for insurance consulting and technology at WTW, manages insurers' expectations for what AI technology can do to analyze and monitor pricing of coverage.
November 16 -
By freeing associates to exercise higher-level judgment, Gen AI could make a 'bionic enterprise' possible, Nationwide's CTO says.
November 15 -
Michael Shashoua, senior editor of Digital Insurance, reported on developments from ITC Vegas Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2023.
November 2 -
Michael Shashoua, senior editor of Digital Insurance, reported on developments from ITC Vegas Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2023.
November 2 -
Reporting from the insurtech industry's largest U.S. conference of the year.
November 1 -
Swiss Re property solutions executive talks about how technology is used to decrease climate disaster risk and react to losses when they happen.
November 1 -
Nationwide is partnering with Resideo Technologies to offer its thermostats, fire, smoke and water leak detectors, and related home security solutions to its policyholders in a pilot program starting in early 2024, with policy discounts for their use, according to company officials.
October 31 -
Spot cargo trucking insurance start-up adds partnerships, expanding its distribution and embedding in the markets where truckers book their freight assignments.
October 24 -
Strategy executive Michael Mahaffey spoke about how the insurer's digital transformation is an ongoing effort, and the accelerated evolution of technology he sees.
October 23 -
Insurtech founded in 2018 uses AI to evaluate small businesses' risk, making it possible for them to get coverage from top carriers.
October 19 -
The New York State Insurance Fund, one of the largest workers comp insurers in the U.S., got over 1,000 policyholders on board its new claims information app in its first week.
October 17 -
Consent and preference management systems, catching on with insurance carriers to leverage customer data for marketing, have the potential to balance that with privacy regulation compliance, according to a Madison Advisors report.
October 12 -
The auto claims technology start-up has grown by a lot in the past two years, launching an IPO and diversifying into other auto insurance-related functions.
October 5 -
Climate modeling and data collection technology is just beginning to catch up to the demand for pinpoint accuracy in property risk assessment.
October 3 -
Both commercial and homeowner insureds may have to turn to parametric insurance to cover losses as carriers leave markets and force states to cover the burden.
September 28 -
Mutual carrier's innovation executive begins digital technology development by starting with the business context for projects.
September 21
