Millers’ acquisition by Cinven and GIC will fuel significant growth
Top executives from reinsurance broker Miller, CEO Greg Collins and executive chairman Ken MacDonald, outlined the reasons behind its recent acquisition by Cinven and GIC, and how this will support its plans for expansion.
Swiss Re: reasons to be cheerful despite a challenging macroenvironment
Jérôme Jean Haegeli, group chief economist at Swiss Re, highlights opportunities for key developments in areas such as digital transformation and supply chains and explains why a challenging macroeconomic environment is not necessarily bad for financial markets, especially with a COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon.
Insurers need to spend more time with risk managers, and think about captives
The current hardening insurance market is driving greater interest in self-insurance via a captive and leading to a cooling of relations between companies and their insurers. AMRAE president Oliver Wild told Intelligent Insurer why insurers need to have a rethink—and talk to risk managers.
How to avoid ‘intellectual waste’ by exploiting automation
Infrastructure is the key to leveraging automation in underwriting, says Ed Challis of Re:infer, ahead of a webinar in Intelligent Insurer’s underwriting webinar series.
Realise the value of a 'digital hug' by moving digitisation beyond FNOL
Fully digitising claims to deliver personalised and real time customer experiences will, crucially, bring the whole claims process 'into the modern world', argue insurance industry experts.
Duck Creek: a four-part framework for claims considerations
There’s frequently an emphasis on automation in the claims arena but, in reality, a balance between automation and personal interaction must be struck.
Robot power: how RPA and AI can unlock claims efficiencies
A panel of insurance industry experts share how they embraced robotic process automation and artificial intelligence at their firms to streamline first notice of loss systems.
COVID-19 driven ‘organisational tsunami’ puts change top of insurance agenda
‘Bureaucracy was thrown out of the window’ as insurers faced change or die ultimatum, delegates heard at the Intelligent Insurer Claims Innovation USA virtual event.
How AI can uncover the value in unstructured data
Extracting value from unstructured data is one of the biggest challenges in the insurance industry, but advances in AI are opening up new possibilities, as Pamela Negosanti, head of NA sales & sector strategy - insurance and financial services for Expert.ai, told Intelligent Insurer.
Why data and technology strengthen underwriters but will not replace them
Digitisation and automation create enormous efficiencies and can transform the work of underwriters – but they will never make underwriters obsolete, Thomas Anderson, director of sales, US, AdvantageGo told Intelligent Insurer.
