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Last year, Getsafe launched in the UK – marking the start of the company’s expansion into new markets. Despite the challenges presented by the global pandemic, Getsafe pushed on with its agenda, including gaining $30 million in new funding and beginning partnerships with leading price comparison websites. It’s time to look back on 2020.
If anything, 2020 was about preparing for – well, everything. This includes cyberthreats, which have risen sharply in the pandemic era. In 2021, rethinking your cyber insurance strategy should be a top priority for CISOs and executive leadership.
The future of insurance distribution has been hotly debated in our industry for decades. Bold predictions several years ago prematurely declared the “death of the agency model” to be largely replaced by direct (and then digital direct) distribution.
Recently, a group of U.S. senators wrote a letter urging the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to address employers’ use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, and other hiring technologies that might result in discrimination.
Majesco’s survey report, ‘Strategic Priorities 2021: The Insurance Industry Shift Hits Hyper-Acceleration for Digital Business Models,’ the first of two reports, makes observations crucial to an understanding of priority shifts driven by the pandemic and other factors.
The insurers need strategies ranging from taking full advantage of data, enabling a more technology-driven workforce.
Cloud technology offers a saving grace for the insurance industry which has been slow to adapt to change. Insurance is years behind its peers, where legacy systems dominate and old technology systems fail to allow companies to meet customer demand and truly innovate.
By speaking to policyholders’ values, motivations and purchase drivers, auto insurance marketers can make more-informed decisions about the messages and offers most likely to entice drivers to switch to their brands.
As consumer technology companies continue to build out AR capabilities and telecom providers build out 5G infrastructure, the barriers to entry and challenges associated with launching AR initiatives will be lessened.
Managing general agencies (MGAs) in Canada are currently engaging in very little mergers and acquisitions activity among themselves because the market is still growing organically and is less mature than in other countries, the managing director of the national MGA trade association told Canadian Underwriter recently.
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