1/18/2022 1:33:36 PM How incumbent carriers can survive, thrive or will be disrupted. By Mike Daly High-tech companies like Lemonade stormed Wall Street promising to reinvent the staid insurance industry, but their plummeting share...
11/10/2021 11:55:15 AM Hippo and Root the real winners over Lemonade & Metromile? Or incumbent carriers? By Mike Daly This analysis by Kaenan Hertz and Tiffani Bova draws out two outcomes I pondered over in yesterdays blog about the planned acquisition...
11/9/2021 11:24:17 AM Lemonade acquiring Metromile challenges incumbent carriers By Mike Daly There is widespread applause and expectation at this announcement which will impact carriers, brokers, MGAs, TPAs and repair networks. ...
11/4/2021 11:41:34 AM The central function of claims from Covea CEO Adrian Furness By Mike Daly If you were to truly to follow the age-old advice "FOLLOW THE MONEY" then heed Covea CEO Adrian Furness's advice and look at claims. This...
7/26/2021 10:00:22 AM Global insurance recovery will be faster, stronger than in 2008 -Swiss Re By Mike Daly "Unlike the prior crisis, the pandemic did not weaken insurers' overall capitalization or financial strength, which allows companies to...
5/6/2021 10:39:44 AM India’s Covid surge rocks global shipping industry By Mike Daly India’s huge wave of Covid-19 infections has hit the international shipping industry, which relies on the country for seafarers, as crews...
4/16/2021 12:00:00 AM Overcoming the Innovation Readiness Gap? By Mike Daly "BCG’s 15th annual #innovation report. Should we not have hoped that at least one insurer could make the top 50? "Let’s start with the...
4/7/2021 12:00:00 AM Car manufacturers or traditional insurance carriers. Who will win the tech race? By Mike Daly In the US there are 14 OEM auto insurance programs are deployed. Toyota Insurance Management Solutions USA joins the growing list of...
3/19/2021 12:00:00 AM Greenberg’s Chubb makes $23bn takeover approach to insurance rival Hartford By Mike Daly Chubb, the largest US non-life insurer by market capitalisation, has approached rival Hartford Financial Services Group with an...
3/18/2021 10:48:36 AM Automated lane keeping tech could cause insurers’ claims costs to spiral By Mike Daly With the liability for autonomous vehicles placed at the doorstep of insurers, Insurance Times explores how the recent government...
2/1/2021 12:00:00 AM One of France’s oldest insurers hires former PartnerRe chief By Mike Daly Wakam seeks to reinvent itself in industry facing disruption from technology Wakam — a privately owned company founded in 1829 which...
1/29/2021 12:23:26 PM Aviva to adopt home-working as standard practice By Mike Daly A flexible mix of office and work-from-home points the way to permanent changes. Technology platforms must be as flexible so that...
11/4/2020 12:00:00 AM FCA’s dual pricing ban could be ‘catalyst’ for Amazon to enter insurance By Mike Daly It’s no longer a question of ‘if’ they move into insurance, but rather ‘how?’,” Connolly said. “Most of Amazon’s revenue comes from the...
10/23/2020 9:13:16 AM Urgent and Important By Mike Daly “The urgent always gets in the way of the important” – 3 reasons this wisdom is dead for insurance technology The urgent in business is...
7/7/2020 10:00:36 AM Insurance experts put premium on start-ups reaching the big time By Mike Daly Investors have backed ‘insurtechs’ such as Lemonade but will consumers do the same? The answer may well rest with incumbent insurers; or...
7/3/2020 12:00:00 AM An unfashionable, and maybe unpopular, view on the Lemonade IPO By Mike Daly The day before Chis Sandiland's insights I stated: "It is all very well Lemonade proclaiming "Forget everything you know about...