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A common mistake P&C organizations make when working with insurtechs

August 28, 2020 by Adam Malik

A common blunder the insurance industry makes when working with an insurtech is mistakenly expecting the partnership to be a one-size-fits-all for every issue they’re facing, according to insurtech leaders. In fact, experts said during a recent webinar, you are

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Insurtechs urge P&C industry to keep foot on the gas with innovation

August 17, 2020 by Adam Malik

Innovation in the insurance industry has shown to be critical over the last number of months, and insurtechs are urging brokers and carriers not to lose the momentum they’ve established. Insurtechs called for closer collaboration between the property and casualty

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How this insurtech is encouraging innovation during COVID-19

March 30, 2020 by Greg Meckbach

Slice Labs Inc., an insurtech with locations in Toronto and Ottawa, is adapting to the pandemic by helping insurers develop new products from people’s homes. “We are actively engaged in getting new products into the market – going full speed

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What are Canadian insurtechs doing with their new venture capital funding?

March 3, 2020 by Greg Meckbach

A sharp rise in venture capital funding to Canadian fintechs has spawned investments in technology intended to improve property and casualty claims management, the insurance leader with PwC Canada suggests. “There has been a broad-stroke move to have significantly more

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Time to regulate insurtechs

February 4, 2020 David Gambrill, Editor in Chief

A short time ago, insurers feared insurtechs would disrupt the property and casualty industry.

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What brokers should consider when looking at insurtech offerings

January 22, 2020 by Greg Meckbach

Brokers looking for a relatively cheap way of upping their game online should check some of the hundreds of insurtechs on the market, but it’s important to know what those insurtechs do and do not provide. If you are a

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An MGA can land in “big trouble” if it fails to do this

January 17, 2020 by Greg Meckbach

Technology could make it easier to start up new managing general agents – which is good news for some and bad news for others, panelists suggested during a recent webinar. “If you [as an MGA] are sitting there thinking, ‘Oh

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How insurtech is bringing policyholders inside the black box of insurance

December 18, 2019 by Jason Contant

Insurtech is beginning to bring policyholders inside the “black box” of insurance to understand how their decisions are influencing their own costs, said a new report on the macro themes redefining the industry. Insurtech has increased access to real-time data

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Do you know where your data is going?

December 9, 2019 Roisein Hutchinson, Senior Associate, Walker Sorensen LLP

So, you want to work with insurtechs. A guide to how your contracts should handle the sharing of private consumer information between you….

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What these ‘non-traditional’ insurance products will look like

November 19, 2019 by Greg Meckbach

As an increasing number of your clients come from cohorts younger than Generation X, the availability of non-traditional insurance products is going to increase, an insurtech industry watcher suggests. “I think we are increasingly going to see the development of

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How much investors have sunk into insurtech

October 25, 2019 by Greg Meckbach

Insurtechs like one Canadian startup in particular are letting brokers provide better service, but the sector as a whole contains some money pits for investors, Willis Towers Watson suggested in a report released Wednesday. “Unquestionably a good number of InsurTechs

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Managing insurtech temptation

September 30, 2019 by Adam Malik

It can be enticing to jump on board as soon as you hear about the latest and greatest doodad to help your business. But getting distracted by the promises of every insurtech option is something one broker tries to avoid.