Power of the collective: The rise of insurance associations

whitePaper | April 5, 2022

As a heavily regulated, intensively bureaucratic sector – a business founded on caution – insurance has always been slow to adapt. But a confluence of historic challenges is forcing the industry to undergo arguably the most radical change in its history.

whitePaper | July 12, 2022

The insurance industry is feeling the impact of high inflation. Supply shortages and higher material prices have been raising insurer repair and replacement costs and increasing the severity of losses on auto and homeowner insurance claims. Interchange fee increases, rising labor costs, and fuel price hikes are only adding to carriers’ financial pressures.

whitePaper | November 30, 2022

In June 2022, nearly two dozen people were charged with defrauding various life insurance carriers – to the tune of more than $25 million. Those involved conspired to apply for numerous bogus life insurance policies, then collect on them by intentionally deceiving carriers with the assumed identities of deceased individuals.

whitePaper | January 14, 2020

After months of strategy and budget meetings, you’ve got the green light – it’s time to begin building your company’s quality assurance program. But are you prepared for the realities of the creation process? Can you address the inevitable questions and setbacks as they appear?

whitePaper | January 28, 2020

Big data and artificial intelligence (AI) are two words that are widely used when discussing the future of business. The potential for applying them in diverse aspects of business has caught the imagination of many, in particular, how AI could replace humans in the workplace. Big data and AI could customize business processes and decisions better suited to individual needs and expectations, improving the efficiency of processes and decisions.

whitePaper | August 25, 2021

As the contours of a postpandemic economy begin to take shape, the implications for privateequity (PE) investors in the insurance sector are also coming into focus. When we last published our perspective on this space, in November 2020, insurance-industry M&A activity was on the rise, insurtech IPOs and special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) were taking off, and uncertainty around the timing of COVID-19 vaccines and the “next normal” loomed large. Today, many players in US and European markets are applying insights from their 2020 performance to emerge stronger amid increased consolidation, digitization, and specialization, as well as persistently low interest rates.