With the world battling the novel coronavirus pandemic, the impact has been felt on each and every sector and everyday life. Perhaps one of the biggest effects of this pandemic has been on the financial services industry and the insurance industry. In many cases, insurers have already started taking the necessary action for protecting their businesses, which have left many consumers in the lurch in this challenging time. On the other hand, the overall reputation of insurers is taking a further battering as consumers and businesses come to terms with the fact that most insurance policies do not cover pandemics. With a recession threatening the global economy and an increasing number of...
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Why The Insurance Industry Is Embracing Digital Transformation? Modern consumers engage with insurance companies on multiple channels. They research, recommend, share and make purchase decisions via omnichannel applications. Digital insurance providers need to combine all the key components that can drive customer engagement at multiple levels to ensure success. Innovation and Agility: Allow a customer to engage both online and offline with limited human interaction. Culture and Workforce: Train your employees, customers, and partners through modern learning management systems for greater engagements. Interactive Design: Provide a seamless shopping experience with clear instructions and...
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Proposed 20% cap on agent commission could boost insurance industry The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India ‘s (Irdai) proposal to put a lower cap of 20% on commissions and remunerations paid to agents and intermediaries under both life and non-life products could lead to faster growth of the insurance market, analysts said. If implemented, the move would reduce costs for insurers and allow them to make products more affordable. “Every insurer shall have an explicitly written policy for payment of commission or remuneration or reward to insurance agents and insurance intermediary which shall be approved by the board of the company,” the regulator said in a...
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Data driven insurance companies will be frontrunners of their industry It is no big secret that insurance companies sit on potential goldmines of data. But extracting value from that data is easier said than done, with many data transformation projects across the world failing to reap their full benefits. Pieter Stel, an associate partner at Valcon, outlines how insurers can successfully adopt a data driven model. Insurance companies today (both property & casualty, health and life insurance) face a range of challenges due to several converging developments in society, the technology space, and the world of insurance. These developments are forcing insurers to take significant steps in...
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DOWNLOADS The past two years may have been the most peculiar recession and recovery in living memory. In 2020, the human tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a global economic downturn that was initially sharper than the Great Depression. As government support programs took shape, the recession rapidly bottomed out, leading to a strong economic recovery in 2021. Global financial markets took a roller-coaster ride as well. The impact on the insurance industry was noticeable: in 2020, premium growth slowed to approximately 1.2 percent (compared with more than 4 percent per year between 2010 and 2020) (Exhibit 1). Profits fell by about 15 percent from 2019. The decline was sharpest in...
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The Insurance Industry and Financial Education The insurance industry is facing a number of new challenges. With worldwide deregulation, new and non-traditional providers are entering the insurance market. The increased competition brings with it pressures to become more specialized and to focus on those activities in which there is a competitive advantage. At the same time, this deregulation is being offset by increasing controls over the delivery and sale of products to consumers. These new regulations are supported by new consumer protection legislation, which is often focused on how an insurer interacts with its agents and its customers. And new opportunities are opening to...
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Article information and share options Personal insurance is dependent on disposable income, while commercial insurance lines are sensitive to changes in turnover and employment, lower wages, cancelled events and reduced travel and trade. This means that demand for insurance is expected to suffer a sharp shock in 2020, with the overall volume of premiums in advanced economies set to fall by 4% (all growth figures are in real terms, adjusted for inflation). However, the latest analysis from the Swiss Re Institute’s sigma report World Insurance: Riding out the 2020 Pandemic Storm suggests that the sector will bounce back to pre-crisis levels by the end of 2021. The recovery will be...
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Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) provide drivers with active safety support features. Vehicles on UK roads are now commonly fitted with a wide variety of ADAS offering features with increasingly sophisticated capability. The increase of ADAS features that support safety critical systems such as braking and steering, make the proper and effective function of ADAS ever more safety critical. The functions of ADAS features rely on sensors that continuously and accurately monitor the environment around the vehicle, making these sensors a safety-critical aspect of any repair process. When do the IIR apply? Inspection, realignment and calibration requirements must be considered in all...
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The U.S. insurance industry employed 2.9 million people in 2020 and was valued at $1.28 trillion. Of these total premiums paid, 48.9% was on life insurance and 51.1% was on property/casualty insurance. Property/casualty includes auto, home, and commercial insurance, totaling $652.8 billion in the same year. While health insurance is measured separately, the total insurance industry contributed $1.1 trillion—about 5.2%—to the nation's gross domestic product in 2020. While these facts and figures demonstrate how large the insurance industry truly is, it’s important to understand how it has affected the U.S. economy in the past before being able to determine how it will impact the economy'...
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Insurance THE ROLE OF THE FSC AND THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY The problems experienced in Jamaica, in the middle of the 1990’s, when the life insurance industry and most of the banking sector collapsed led the government and regulators to examine the causes. Measures were implemented that were aimed at solving the problems associated with the life insurance industry. In the process, a number of life insurance companies were forced to merge to ensure viability. In contrast, the general insurance industry saw only one failure which was salvaged through government assistance. The problems led the then Jamaican government to take appropriate actions to remedy the deficiencies that were...
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