Coronavirus

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.

When the government instead purports to rewrite the terms of policies already in force, serious problems arise.

The crisis taught us a lot about what we can plan for, how digital can change the trajectory of our business lines, and how at the heart of digital solutions will always be a dedicated workforce.

Previous digital investments are paying off, says SVP Kara Hoogensen.

More workers will be home-based either permanently or part-time in the post-COVID-19 era.

Learn how data informed Allstate's decision to rebate auto insurance customers as COVID-19 kept cars off the road.

A dozen business owners -- including celebrity chefs, Native American casino operators, restaurant chains, a scuba-diving shop and a movie theater operator -- have sued insurers for refusing to honor policies.

Insurers who cling to the business structures and systems of The Before Times may not be able to adapt.

Allstate expects to give back more than $600 million, while, American Family Insurance said it plans to return about $200 million.

The coronavirus relief legislation could result in private mortgage insurers having to hold more capital, a B. Riley FBR analyst report said.

DI editor Nathan Golia and Celent's Karlyn Carnahan discuss her report, Covid-19: Three scenarios for insurers