As insurers look to the following horizon of enlargement with an inclusive and various method, there are a variety of alternatives influencing scale potential together with acquisitions, capital investments, the metaverse and the emergence of insurtech 2.0.
On this month’s Insurance coverage Information Evaluation, Joanne Laffan and I focus on how a pre-scale insurer like Lemonade is planning to leapfrog its rivals by means of its recent acquisition of Metromile, a pay-per-mile automotive insurance coverage firm.
With the arrival of Ethereum Merge in an effort to fight the carbon-intense vitality consumption from blockchain in cryptocurrency, we focus on what it means for insurers’ capital investments as they’re attempting to remain on prime of each new know-how and internet zero targets.
We additionally focus on a number of the early methods we count on to see the metaverse impact insurers’ operations and their buyer and worker experiences. Plus we concentrate on the implications of so-called ‘insurtech 2.0’ which emerged as a hot topic of conversation at ITC 2022 in Las Vegas.
Lastly, after a brand new U.S. House Committee report discovered there was little change in racial, ethnic and gender illustration amongst staff on the largest U.S. insurers between 2017 and 2021, we focus on practices that insurers can implement to make sure inclusion and variety is promoted.
