Coronavirus

Deloitte's Gopi Billa joins the show to talk about what the insurance workplace will look like as COVID-19 restrictions are lifted and carriers make choices about their workforce.

While there are some signs of business slowly returning to normal as lockdown measures are eased, many financial firms are still keeping employees away from their offices.

Travelers' EVP and chief technology and operations officer Mojgan Lefebvre joins the show to discuss the company's tech priorities before, during, and after the pandemic; and how the company is keeping up its recruiting and onboarding of key tech talent during this crisis.

Month-to-month changes in the insurance industry's fiscal outlook will impact digital choices.

The White House wants Congress to require hospitals and insurers to reveal the prices they negotiate for medical services as part of any additional round of coronavirus stimulus.

Companies who had already adapted to a culture of digital innovation technology have proven more successful during this sudden and dramatic shift.

Coronavirus has exposed that risk is ever-present and the traditional inequities in insurance levels for women should be addressed.

Insurance policies typically sold through face-to-face channels require intense advice and demand creation. Insurers must take steps now to adapt to the new landscape.

Many insurers report no changes to their plans, with some reshaping and a few accelerating, but very few pausing or retrenching.

Research from Digital Insurance's parent Arizent finds the pandemic has highlighted the importance of having a strong digital presence across all sectors, including insurance.

The coronavirus crisis has halted regular development cycles and thrown potential entrepreneurs out of their comfort zone.

When this is all an anxious memory, companies who dropped the red tape holding them back and embraced radical change may well reap huge long term benefits.

Nimish Mehta discusses the rapid transition required to keep the company going during the crisis.

The services affected include primary care, mental and behavioral health visits for issues like depression that could be exacerbated by the pandemic.

Amid record low travel and vehicle miles traveled, speeding and crashes in cities around the United States have increased.

With insurers rapidly deploying digital capabilities in order to service socially distancing customers, Jamie Yoder of Snapsheet thinks these habits could stick and become status quo going forward.

Like other businesses, hospitals have been forced to make instant emergency changes because of the coronavirus. But many hospitals are concurrently getting a rush of demand for service with an unclear revenue stream.

Early research from Celent quantifies initial reactions

Rick McCathron, chief insurance officer of the digital home insurance carrier Hippo, talks rapidly ramping up work-at-home and virtualizing home inspections as the coronavirus fallout spread.

Changes that would have occurred over the course of years are happening in weeks.