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Underwriting

Data and technology are changing the way that insurers underwrite. Improved catastrophe models and new technology for algorithmic underwriting are helping to make the day-to-day lives of underwriters easier.

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November 28, 2023
Imaginera: building the future of underwriting platform technology
Ali Smedley speaks to Bevis Tetlow, CEO at Imaginera, about what an ‘underwriting cockpit’ is, the flexibility of the company’s underwriting platform Orca and how it caters for the end-to-end journey of an underwriting submission from receipt through to claims.
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November 25, 2023
State of the Market 2023: Incorporating ESG into P&C underwriting
What drives insurers to look into adopting Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors into their underwriting processes? Salman Siddiqui at Moody’s Analytics and Adiraj Maitra at Canopius join Matthew Grant in this podcast to discuss ESG and sustainability in the insurance industry, centring the ...
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October 31, 2023
The future of underwriting has arrived – Examples from the front line
The best underwriters knew how to combine experience with data and analytics to grow premiums and underwrite profitably. Until recently, too much time had to be spent manually reviewing and working with submissions that proved unsuitable or were hard to price accurately. On this panel – ‘...
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October 24, 2023
KatRisk: a decade of catastrophe modelling
InsTech’s Ali Smedley speaks to Dag Lohman, CEO and Co-founder of KatRisk, about how climate data is built into its hurricane and flood models, the data challenges of ESG reporting and what is needed to create catastrophe models.
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October 4, 2023
VIPR: making delegated underwriting easier
InsTech’s Ali Smedley speaks with Paul Templar, Founder and CEO at VIPR, about the company’s approach to partnerships, the importance of efficient data exchange and how VIPR is encouraging the use of artificial intelligence within the company.
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September 21, 2023
hyperexponential: powering pricing decision intelligence
InsTech’s Ali Smedley caught up with ​Amrit Santhirasenan, Co-founder and CEO, to discuss how hyperexponential integrates with legacy systems, how underwriters, actuaries and IT teams benefit from its platform and the future of ecosystems.
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September 9, 2023
Pricing decision intelligence for insurers
This week on the podcast Matthew speaks to a returning guest, Amrit Santhirasenan who is the Co-founder and CEO at hyperexponential. Their discussion focuses on pricing decision intelligence and what this means for insurers. Listen to find out more about hyperexponential’s evolution as a ...
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September 1, 2023
Augmented underwriting technology with human expertise
This week on the podcast we go into detail about an exciting partnership between two InsTech members. Robin Merttens is joined by David King, Artificial Labs and James Slaughter, Apollo Underwriting, following the two companies announcing an augmented underwriting collaboration. The portfolio will be underwritten ...
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August 29, 2023
Better together, the data powering underwriting, claims, cat modelling and restoration
Matthew Grant, CEO at InsTech is joined by Michael Porter, SVP International, Insurance Solutions at CoreLogic. We get up close and personal with Michael to discuss the full range of how the company is helping with underwriting, claims, catastrophe modelling and restoration.
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August 23, 2023
Arturo: property intelligence from the sky
InsTech’s Ali Smedley speaks to Greg Oslan, CEO at Arturo, about how the company uses machine learning to identify property attributes, its new sustainability module and how Arturo approaches new data and technology partnerships.
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July 14, 2023
Supply chains, cargo delays and parametric insurance
While supply chains are under increasing pressure, many losses associated with cargo delays go uninsured. If shipments are late, perishable goods are lost, business is interrupted and budgets are overspent. Henry Gale speaks to Yann Barbarroux, CEO and Co-founder at Otonomi about the insurance product ...
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July 10, 2023
CFC: insuring the dangerous decade ahead
Member Spotlight: CFC Could you introduce CFC? CFC was founded in 1999 as ClickForCover.com. It was one of the first companies to sell cyber insurance online. Today, CFC is a specialist insurance provider underwriting cyber, transactional liability, intellectual property, technology and other risks. It wrote $1 ...