or Subscribe. Allan Egbert https://www.linkedin.com/in/aegbertjr/ is the co-founder of Ask Kodiak https://askkodiak.com/#/home Show Notes: Ask Kodiak is trying to solve a big communications problems between the insurance markets and distributors such as brokers and agents. The insurance markets believe that they communicate well, to their agents & brokers, what type of exposures they wish […]
Profiles in Risk – Episode 22: Contractors in Corporate Culture with Allied Restoration
or Subscribe. Show Notes: In Episode 22, Carly and Nick speak with OP Alamaraz and Tim Bauer of Allied Restoration. What was expected to be a conversation entirely about claims contracting and restoration turned into a nearly hour long discussion about the importance of corporate culture. Both OP and Tim have an incredible story […]
5 Ways Blockchain Will Revolutionize The Insurance Ecosystem
“You say you got a real solution Well, you know we’d all love to see the plan, You ask me for a contribution Well, you know, We are doing what we can” – Revolution by The Beatles Blockchain is often associated with Bitcoin (see footnotes below for links to articles on Bitcoin). Bitcoin is […]
Building New Insurance Business Models: How Partnerships In Risk Mitigation Are A Win/Win/Win
“And the men who hold high places, must be the ones who start, to mold a new reality, closer to the heart, closer to the heart” – Closer To The Heart by Rush Contrary to public perception, the interests of policyholders and insurers aren’t always in conflict. In fact, it is important to […]
More Data Is Not Better…Better Data Is Better – Debunking The Myth That More Data & Technology Will Obsolete Insurance
On Billiards “If you know a set of basic parameters concerning the ball at rest, can compute the resistance of the table (quite elementary), and can gauge the strength of the impact, then it is rather easy to predict what would happen at the first hit. The second impact becomes more complicated, but possible; […]
The Capital Advantage – How Capital Requirements Put Small Insurers Behind The 8-Ball
This article originally published on InsNerds.com “Insurance is the most capital-intensive of all U.S. industries, according to our estimates, and building up market share requires substantial investment. The amount of capital required to compete also pushes the industry toward fewer and larger firms“ It is commonly said that insurance is a capital intensive […]
Examining The Investment Potential Of Purely Digital Residential Insurers
Originally published at InsNerds.com by Nick Lamparelli Lately, I have been publishing posts related to the investment potential of various new #InsurTech startups based on a mental model that I process my hypotheses through. Briefly, for an #InsurTech startup to create significant returns for investors it must be able to create and capture significant value […]
Should We Say Goodbye To “Time” As One Of The Key Element Of Mutuality Within The Insurance Portfolio? Does On Demand Insurance Make Sense?
This article was originally published on InsNerds.com The title of this article comes from a post, on LinkedIn from Matteo Carbone who is undoubtedly an insurtech thought leader. The question being asked is are we at a point where insurance can be “turned-on” when needed and “turned-off” when not needed? Why do policyholders need to […]
What Could Prevent Internet of Things #IoT Devices And #Insurance From Truly Partnering?
“If you go back sixty-four generations, to the time of the Romans, the number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately one million trillion, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived!.” ― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything A […]
Summary of The Insurance Technology Association 2017 LIVE Event #ITALive17
As the Northeast digs out from Stella, I am comfortably sitting in South Florida, “trapped” and not “easily” able to make it back home, due to the storm. I appreciate your empathy! I am in South Florida because I had the pleasure of being asked to sit on a panel that discussed Innovation in Insurance […]