Underwriting

Aaron Minkovich, chief technology officer at Manulife, shared insights into how the company will expand AI and the ROI related to the partnership.

Insurtech service providers recommend human review and information sourcing checks as ways to prevent inconsistent claims and underwriting model output.

Danielle Lutkus, principal consultant at Capco, shared insights about how claims, underwriting and fraud teams are responding to AI-driven fraud.

Despite AI-driven productivity gains, 77% of financial services firms say that AI investments don't deliver a measurable return.

Nirmitee Shah, general manager of financial and professional services at Scale AI, describes the industry's slow and careful progress with the technology.

The carrier has achieved 90% time savings by deploying a single AI tool.

Only 23% of insurers report AI being fully integrated into systems, according to the 2026 State of P&C Insurance Technology report from Federato.

Underwriters do not see AI as a threat; most would consider the quality of an employer's AI tools when switching jobs, according to a new survey.

More than half of the participants in the global insurer's incubator program are AI focused or using AI in some way for their functions.

Rema Matevosyan, the company's co-founder, spoke with Digital Insurance about providing higher-resolution property images at scale.

Genuine readiness in 2026 requires documented third-party access audits across broker and TPA relationships plus evidence that controls were verifiably in force.

Junior underwriters can gain support for their work from AI, and data handling to support underwriting improves, said insurance risk management experts from Cytora, Scor and AXA XL.

Poetic, an artificial intelligence startup, is emerging from stealth with $50 million in funding to help businesses streamline complex tasks, ranging from insurance underwriting to financial compliance.

If insurers can use AI to build a property file, policyholders should have the right to know what is in that file when it affects premium, eligibility, renewal or coverage.

Carriers are adopting AI to improve underwriting, pricing and risk selection, but most models still rely on static data collected at a single moment in time.

In a softening market, insurers that succeed with AI will not be those who deploy it fastest, but those who pair innovation with governance, accuracy and accountability.

Automation will change underwriting, but judgment, context, and accountability still belong to people.

The goal is to improve risk management and expand access to more customers in markets that better data now makes possible.

A transatlantic team of brokers, underwriters and meteorologists devised a workaround to save Bad Bunny from losses: They installed a temporary weather station inside the stadium, linked to a bespoke policy that would pay out if rainfall exceeded a set threshold.

John Chu, CEO and founder of Bamboo Insurance, discussed the company's growth and planned expansion, and how that is supported by artificial intelligence.