Underwriting & Fulfilment
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McKinsey & Company – Rewriting the rules: Digital and AI-powered underwriting in life insurance
Executive summary : To many consumers, buying life insurance can be painful. Despite insurance companies’ substantial investments over the past several years in digitising ...
Applied adds Geo Underwriting to personal lines panel
Applied Systems, a cloud-based solution provider has launched a new product in partnership with Geo Underwriting called Geo FlexiLet. The product is underwritten by Ageas and...
Fetch! debuts searchable database of underwriting guidelines
In the US, distribution-based InsurTech called Fetch! has launched a software application which allows underwriters to search relevant underwriting guidelines on the go, ther...
Element AI brings AI underwriting to GroupAssur
GroupAssur, a Canada-based broker, has partnered with Element AI, which offers AI-based software solutions to optimise its underwriting workflows.
Element AI helped Gr...
The New Wave: Evolving pricing and underwriting models
Bridging the gap between legacy comforts and tomorrow’s requirements is a challenge for every industry. This bridge is particularly important for life and health insurers as ...
ICLAM 2019: TDI Underwriting and Claims Tech Panel
Lincoln Financial Group’s new underwriting engine delivers instant life insurance quotes
Lincoln Financial Group provides advice and solutions around retirement, insurance and wealth protection to help support its customers in their lifestyle, savings and income ...
TDI Webinar – February 2019 – The Digital Actuary – preparing for the future … Now!
The Digital Actuary – preparing for the future…Now! webinar was held on 27th February 2019. The agenda included trends & predictions about: How actuaries can prep for ...
Personalisation of Insurance: the end or a new beginning?
A Brave New World InsurTech and the personalisation of insurance is a subject I’ve written about a lot. The concept is simple. Old world methods of assessing risk are blunt ...
Knowing the risks: How to manage regulatory risks while driving innovation forward
The insurance industry is in the midst of unprecedented change. Changing customer dynamics, rapidly evolving technologies, and the growing ability to distinguish customers at ...
Risk and Regulation
Verisk’s ISO Personal Lines Program Targets $40 Billion Private Flood Insurance Market
Verisk has launched a new flood insurance program which enables insurers to enter the private flood insurance market by offering broad and flexible coverage options in a temp...
Les Wong from The Digital Insurer speaks @ Digital Insurance around the world panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018
Watch Les Wong from The Digital Insurer speak @ Digital Insurance around the world panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018 about Bought by Many as Global Challenger where people...
Underwriting & Claims in a digital world panel session @ Africa LIVEFEST 2018
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Joe Van Niekerk from Discovery Vitality speaks @ Africa LIVEFEST 2018 panel session -Underwriting & Claims in the Digital World
Watch Joe Van Niekerk from DISCOVERY Vitality speak @Africa LIVEFEST 2018 panel session -Underwriting & Claims in the Digital World about innovative ways to improve health ...
Oliver Werneyer from IMburse speak @ Africa LIVEFEST 2018 panel session- Underwriting & Claims in the Digital World
Watch Oliver Werneyer from IMburse speak @ Africa LIVEFEST 2018 panel session- Underwriting & Claims in the Digital World about an innovative Cloud-based centrally managed ...
Florence Nabakiibi from ICEA Life Insurance speaks @ Africa LIVEFEST 2018 panel session -Underwriting & Claims in the Digital World
Watch Florence Nabakiibi from ICEA Life Insurance speak @ Africa LIVEFEST 2018 panel session -Underwriting & Claims in the Digital World about the opportunities and ...
Thomas Gachie from Resolution Insurance speaks @ Africa LIVEFEST 2018 panel session -Underwriting & Claims in the Digital World
Watch Thomas Gachie from Resolution Insurance speaks @ Africa LIVEFEST 2018 panel session -Underwriting & Claims in the Digital World about Medical E-claims Initiatives and ...
Shaping the actuarial workforce of the future
Shaping the actuarial workforce of the future Advanced analytics and big data are fundamentally changing actuarial work. Today’s actuaries no longer have to follow the ...
Underwriting transformation in the digital era
Article Synopsis : This report from EY is based on a global survey of business and IT executives at more than 40 carrier, broker and InsurTech firms. The survey is the first to ...
Enabling the future of underwriting
Article Synopsis : With the insurance industry awash in data from a variety of sensors and devices, underwriters are under growing pressure to collect and combine just the right ...
Finalist of The Digital Insurer’s European Insurance Innovation Award 2017 – Healix
Thank you, Healix! On 19th September 2017 the final presentations for The Digital Insurer Insurance Innovation Awards were held. In this unique format four finalists presented ...
Analyze Re – applying Cap Mkts tech to bring reinsurance underwriting into the 21st century
The $500bn reinsurance industry provides insurance for the insurers. In this market it is all about premiums and risk and the relationship between them, defined as the loss ...
New rules of the road in Underwriting – E&Y Research
Article Synopsis : There is no doubt that digital advancement presents a great opportunity for insurers to leverage technology, data and analytics to achieve underwriting ...
Coming of Age for Automated Underwriting – Infosys
Article Synopsis : The business benefits of end-to-end automation and straight-through processing renders the implementation of automated underwriting solutions as one of the ...
Strategic Considerations for Automated Underwriting – RGA
Article Synopsis : A responsive and automated underwriting solution that allows quick access to critical information, offers comprehensive risk analysis, optimises costs, and ...
Streamlining underwriting – EY report
Article Synopsis : Technological innovation together with enhanced analytical capabilities is transforming the future of underwriting and insurers have started re-imagining it as ...
Winning New Technologies – Munich Re report
Article Synopsis : Improved technology, data availability and analytics tools have emerged as great enablers and now insurers are increasingly embracing automated underwriting as...
New! Coming soon
We are putting the finishing touches on our special report on Digital Underwriting and Fulfilment that we have produced in collaboration with Swiss Re. The report explores current ...
Exclusive Digital Underwriting and Fulfilment Report produced by The Digital Insurer and Swiss Re
In collaboration with Swiss Re, The Digital Insurer is pleased to reveal its exclusive Thought Leadership Report on Digital Underwriting and Fulfilment in Asia Pacific. We are ...
Technology Solutions to Complex Risk Underwriting – Accenture
Article Synopsis : Traditional underwriters are often bound by manual processes and tasks such as managing data, documentation and tracking clients/agents, which can impact the ...
Integrating real time data in the underwriting process – IBM
Article Synopsis : Insurance underwriting is on the verge of a quantum leap as an increasing number of insurers are recognizing the role of data analytics and big data in risk ...
The digital revolution – how underwriting is changing to support the mobile sales process
In this article, from guest author Glen Holmes, the role and design of automated underwriting tools are explored. The mobile advisor is arriving quickly – just in time to ...
Swiss Re Advanced Risk Management Seminar
The Digital Insurer was pleased to present to the Swiss Re ARMS conference. Digitalisation is changing the world at an extraordinary pace. What does that mean for our insurance ...
Insurance “most ahead of the game” in assessing climate c...
Understanding the impact of climate change on an investment portfolio is quickly
becoming a priority for many businesses, and data and analytics company ...
Fundamental Underwriters expands claims capabilities thro...
Fundamental Underwriters, a specialty managing general underwriter with expertise in mid-market trucking insurance, today announced a partnership with Snapsheet,...
Kettle hires Haddrell from Sompo Int. as Chief Underwriti...
Kettle, a deep-learning and artificial intelligence (AI) focused reinsurtech start-up, has made a key hire as it builds out its reinsurance platform,
Encova Insurance partners with Convr to enrich agent expe...
Billion-dollar carrier gains competitive advantage by using Convr to improve ease of doing business for agents while increasing underwriting efficiency...
Harnessing the Power of Advanced Insurance Analytics thro...
In commercial and residential underwriting, accurate and robust property data is
essential to effectively doing business and performing analytics. Increasing ...
Willis Towers Watson launches underwriting software Radar...
Willis Towers Watson has unveiled a new underwriting software, called Radar Workbench, to enhance the performance of frontline underwriters.
CAPE Analytics expands Its Geospatial Property Intelligen...
Insurance carriers in Canada can now access CAPE property characteristics and condition attributes to make better underwriting and investment decisions MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif./AP...
Joyn Insurance chooses Convr to enable a one-of-a-kind co...
CHICAGO (April 13, 2021) – Convr, a leading underwriting decisioning platform for commercial P&C insurance carriers, announced today that Joyn...
CAPE expands its geospatial property intelligence to Canada
Insurance carriers and real estate investors in Canada can now access CAPE property characteristics and condition attributes to make better...
Structuring an effective model risk management and valida...
... Financial Transformation · Insurance-Linked Securities · Mergers &
Acquisitions · Microinsurance · Mortgage & Credit Risk · Product Development &
Pricing ...
e2Value partners with Betterview to enrich property intel...
e2Value maximizes the efficiency and accuracy of property underwriters by providing instant property value estimates for residential and commercial structures with only an addre...
Insurers call for improvements to IAIS corporate governan...
Generali GC&C forges alliance with NHAZCA to boost s...
Generali GC&C has inked a strategic partnership with NHAZCA to boost its existing capabilities in underwriting, risk engineering and loss prevention.
New York Life Accelerates Underwriting Through Collaborat...
The collaboration supports New York Life’s safely and securely accessing hospitals’ EHRs in near-real time with patient consent.
Major re/insurance players commit $2mn to Oasis Loss Mode...
A number of the world’s biggest players in re/insurance have committed additional funds to support the development of open source catastrophe modelling
Peter Kelly – Digital Transformation in Insurance
Managing Director, FTI Consulting. Peter Kelly has 35 years of experience
working in the insurance sector, primarily in pricing, underwriting and technology.
He ...
Conquering the five strategic challenges to underwriting ...
Accenture’s Michael Reilly look at what’s holding back underwriting transformation in today’s insurance industry.
Betterview announces new insurtech offering on Guidewire ...
Insurtech company Betterview, which provides actionable property intelligence for P&C insurance carriers to streamline their underwriting process, today announced a...
RMS unveils new suite of climate change models
RMS has introduced a suite of Climate Change Models, which will enable customers to evaluate the effect of climate change on physical assets.
Covid-19 and insurance economics: Supporting businesses s...
Automation, analytics, and digital technology will be important elements of new business models following the current crisis. This white paper highlights why insurers will need ...
Cincinnati Insurance adopts Zesty.ai’s wildfire ris...
Climate risk analytics firm Zesty.ai has announced that The Cincinnati Insurance Company has integrated its predictive wildfire risk analytics solution,
Integral announces launch of ILS-backed property insuranc...
Risks underwritten by specialty distributor Amwins and policies issued through Core Specialty.
Cincinnati Insurance Company Adopts Zesty.ai’s Z-FIRE to ...
Z-FIRE’s AI model has been trained on more than 1200 wildfire events across several decades and accounts for the individual property-level factors that contribute to wildfire risk.
5 Keys to Transforming Underwriting
A vision for transforming underwriting can be partitioned into five basic considerations and exercises to create a tactical road map.
Cincinnati Insurance Company partners with Zesty.ai
The Cincinnati Insurance Company has signed a long-term contract to fully integrate Z-FIRE across the Cincinnati Insurance portfolio.
Multi-risk model approach can build stronger catastrophe ...
A research study from Oxford University has found that adopting at least four views of risk can make a significant difference to catastrophe insurance
HazardHub announces national database of building permits...
HazardHub, the USA’s fastest-growing supplier of geospatial risk data, a 2020 Gartner Cool Company, and 2020 Lloyd’s Lab participant –...
Columbia Insurance partners with Betterview to streamline...
COLUMBIA, MO, March 10, 2021 – Columbia Insurance Group, which provides a full range of property and casualty insurance coverages...
State Auto & Cape Analytics partner to bring geospat...
Cape Analytics’ API and underwriting web application allow State Auto to improve risk selection and underwriting workflows Today, Cape Analytics...
COVID-19 Is Accelerating Technology Adoption, Innovation ...
The global pandemic has triggered fundamental changes that present insurers with new challenges and opportunities. Insurers embracing technological
Covering for a Gap in Workers Comp Data
OSHA inspections provide key data for workers' comp underwriters -- but are down 48% in the pandemic. What to do?
QOMPLX swoops on insurance software modelling firm RPC Tyche
Cloud-native risk analytics provider QOMPLX has agreed to buy RPC Tyche, an insurance software modelling and consulting firm.
Columbia Insurance Selects Betterview to Streamline Prope...
Betterview’s technology helps Columbia’s underwriters automate their review and response process, especially for policy renewals.
Arturo Partners with High-Precision Stratospheric Imagery...
The agreement enables Arturo’s to expand its collection of aerial imagery through the addition of Urban Sky’s high-frequency, high-precision stratospheric photos.
The future direction of underwriting means more digital data
The consequences of this may result in poor risk selection, ambiguous coverage
language, and inaccurate pricing. Another key trend drawn from the survey is
how ...
EIOPA should prioritise prevention, risk reduction and re...
Betterview announces partnership with newly formed InsurT...
Betterview, the remote property intelligence platform that aims to empower and inform every stage of the policy life-cycle, has announced...
Carpe Data partners with Unqork to help P&C insurers...
Carpe Data has teamed up with Unqork, the leading enterprise no-code application platform, to help property and casualty (P&C) insurers drive...
How location data adds intelligence to risk management so...
Did you know that 67% of people in flood zones, where flood insurance is supposedly mandatory, still don’t have flood coverage?
Actuarial innovation in the COVID-19 era
From 26 April to 7 May, the IFoA will be running a series of events – including webinars, panel sessions and a hackathon – to showcase the range of ways in which the actuarial...
Unqork Incorporates Carpe Data Resources to Better Evalua...
The integration of emerging and alternative data into Unqork’s enterprise no-code platform aims to brings insurers unprecedented speed-to-market and insight.
Carpe Data team up Unqork to help P&C Insurers reduc...
Carpe Data and Unqork have partnered to help property and casualty (P&C) insurers enhance automation, cut down fraud and boost accuracy.
COVID-19 workers’ compensation insurance challenges
Insurers will need to evolve their risk selection and pricing tactics as well as portfolio management practices.
What the future underwriter will look like
Underwriters of the future are going to look a lot more like technology trailblazers, data pioneers, dealmakers, portfolio optimizers, and risk detectives, according to a new re...
Global insurer taskforce to develop climate risk assessme...
Climate change poses different levels of physical and transition risks to both sides of the balance sheet, as well as liabilities and assets for both P&C and life re/insurers, a...
Insurance Underwriter (UZ-CF7FB)
MassMutual is going through a digital transformation, continuing to be a ... for a
virtual Underwriter to join our team, tasked with underwriting life insurance in a ...
HazardHub launches 11 millionth fire hydrant location in ...
HazardHub, the USA’s fastest-growing supplier of geospatial risk data, a 2020 Gartner Cool Company, and 2020 Lloyd’s Lab participant –...
Augmented automated underwriting brings a new generation ...
The Digital Insurer reviews Munich Re's Report on Augmented automated
underwriting brings a new generation of underwriting to the life insurance market.
What brokers are asking of their underwriters
In the midst of a hard market in several Canadian commercial insurance lines, several senior Canadian broker executives are urging underwriters not to substitute data and analyt...
Announcing ‘Cyber Insurance Risk Framework,’ ...
In consultation with industry, cybersecurity experts and others, the DFS created a
Cyber Insurance Risk Framework, summarized below, that outlines best practices
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