Distributed social proof insurance

whitePaper | March 7, 2023

No single insurer is spared by fraud. Globally, fraud is estimated to cost the insurance industry hundreds of billions of GBP per year. This figure isn’t just fraud on an individual or opportunistic scale, but also the result of insurance fraud networks who represent an industry unto themselves.

whitePaper | July 18, 2023

Legal expenses insurance (LEI) has been available in the UK for almost 50 years. While adoption was initially slow, its popularity has grown enormously over that time. Today, tens of millions of people and hundreds of thousands of businesses are insured against the potentially crippling costs of asserting even basic legal rights. Every week, LEI claims enable the pursuit and defence of thousands of cases that might otherwise have been abandoned as unaffordable.

whitePaper | July 19, 2022

ML, a branch of artificial intelligence (AI), operates under the hood in many digital services we use today – including search engines, social media, e-commerce, and voice assistants. Automated, ML-powered systems have virtually unlimited computing power, resources, and memory in comparison to human counterparts and can be taught to “connect the dots” during data analysis.

whitePaper | May 23, 2022

Insurance Post, in association with LexisNexis Risk Solutions, gathered experts together to discuss how issues such as ghost broking, the current limitations of benchmarking and fraud detection are pertinent to rooting out motor insurance fraud. This content provides a summary of the discussion.

whitePaper | October 31, 2022

Some 58.1% of non-elderly Americans (158 million people) receive health care benefits through their employers as of 2019, making employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) the nation’s largest source of health coverage. ESI is the foundation for the nation’s public-private health system, but rising health care costs continue to put pressure on employers seeking to offer the same level of benefits and to boost wages. Similarly, employees are seeing their health insurance premiums rise in the face of stagnant real wages. Even the largest private employers lack the resources or market power to prompt and sustain the systemwide changes needed to improve the value they receive for their health care spending.

whitePaper | August 1, 2022

After enjoying healthy margins for several years, insurance organisations aren’t as profitable as they once were. McKinsey’s 2022 global insurance report finds that, after decades of stable returns, more than half of insurers now earn less than their cost of equity. Worldwide, around half of all listed insurance organisations have traded below book value over the past five years.