Insurance Blogs hosted by Canadian Underwriter
Insurance Blogs hosted by Canadian Underwriter
By now, probably all readers of this blog will have heard of Friendsurance, the German online broker that puts a group of friends together to share in insurance deductibles etc to make the premium cheaper overall for the group. (I blogged about them two years Continue reading
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A major complaint levelled against the insurance industry is that it has failed to provide coverage for consumers who, through no fault of their own, have seen their homes and belongings destroyed by flood. With the announcement by Co-operators that…
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Last year I posted a blog – CSIO and the Power of Collaboration – to reflect on the challenges and accomplishments of 2013. As many of you may recall, eDocs was a major success of our industry, with all members…
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Using the family car to drive for Uber carries the potential for serious consequences in terms of inadequate insurance protection. Until the legal issues surrounding Uber’s business model are resolved, it doesn’t appear likely the industry will come up with a solution.
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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has been the preeminent show for seeing, hearing and feeling what is emerging and hot in consumer electronics at the beginning of each year. It is the place to go to see new electronic games,…
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For a brief time in my career, almost 20 years ago, I worked for an insurance agency. The agency was (and still is) quite successful. I learned a lot in that time, about selling, advice and how to lead a…
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The promise of a better way to enable the P&C Insurance industry to do business has been an expensive and ongoing voyage, a voyage that some think is a myth while others hope it is reality. SEMCI (single entry multiple…
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To put the disruptive, transformative, and innovative impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) into context, just consider these industry estimates indicating that by 2020, there will be 8 billion people on earth and 50 billion connected things with 5…
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Inspired. Extraordinary. Insightful. Transformative. Innovative. These are the words describing what I heard, saw, and experienced at the recent MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, titled Lead Your Digital Enterprise Forward: Are you Ready for the Next Digital Revolution? The symposium had…
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We are just a few days away from the publication of our next IBM Institute for Business Value insurance study.
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Innovation ecosystem. Open innovation. The combination of these two empowers the collaboration and the sharing of knowledge, information, and ideas that are accelerating innovation today, helping to reimagine industries and companies. Why is an ecosystem so powerful and so critical?…
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I was at a workshop last week with several high-ranking insurance executives where we talked about interesting developments for the future of our industry. Invariably, the topics of innovation, regulation and the conservative nature of the industry came up. I’ve blogged about this on this…
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Without a doubt, 2014 will be a pivotal year for the insurance industry – the dawning of a new future, reshaped more quickly than expected by powerful influencers such as customer-driven expectations, outside industry impact, and the increased speed of…
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