An Introduction to Life Insurance

whitePaper | January 18, 2023

Anyone who follows the InsurTech space knows that Shift Technology started life by applying artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced data science techniques to the challenges of identifying suspicious claims and helping insurers make better decisions about what to do with them when they were discovered. Fast forward to today, and Shift is supporting insurance decisioning across the policy lifecycle and throughout the claims process. This depth and breadth of experience gives us incredible insight into the trends shaping the insurance industry.

whitePaper | February 8, 2023

Insurers have been navigating digital transformation alongside economic, political, and environmental disruption. These factors will continue to play a major role in the insurance industry in 2023. While most changes are positive, insurance companies must be agile and ready to adapt to evolving conditions to continue to grow.

whitePaper | May 24, 2022

The technological needs of some organizations reflect the urgency of establishing strategic priorities and developing agile solutions that meet customer demands quickly and effectively. One of these strategic solutions will be the adoption of SaaS core systems models.

whitePaper | December 20, 2022

Traditionally, those specialists working on data analytics and machine learning use cases have a fairly niche skill set. They have an innate aptitude for computer science, statistics, math and so forth.

whitePaper | March 14, 2022

If you want to see the influence that insurtechs are having on how insurance will be sold in the future, look no further than Lloyd’s of London, which has been about as technologically behind as an institution can be. Brit Ltd. announced in May 2020 that, in collaboration with Google, it has created Ki, a new syndicate that will be part of Lloyd’s, that “will aim to significantly reduce the amount of time and effort taken for [commercial] brokers to place their [excess] capacity, creating greater efficiency, responsiveness, and competitiveness.” The Ki platform, which will launch in 2021, will be cloud-based, able to be accessed by brokers directly, and involve algorithms able to evaluate Lloyd’s policies.

whitePaper | April 26, 2022

The climate crisis poses a serious threat to the United States economy and human welfare, with a narrowing timeframe to invest in opportunities to avoid the most catastrophic impacts. Extreme weather events can be exacerbated by climate change, disrupting supply chains, and flooding made worse by sea level rise can destroy critical infrastructure. As a smaller subset of these impacts, climate change threatens the Nation’s fiscal health.