Insurance
Top Insurance Highlights from the Salesforce Spring ’23 Release
Reading time: 7 minutes
The Salesforce Financial Services Cloud Spring ’23 release is coming out in a few weeks. We’re excited to see that many of the new capabilities offer solutions for the technology goals that insurance companies are looking to achieve, including: Digitizing the recruiting and interview process to create a unified experience that flows from the first...
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Insurance Industry Trends 2023: Talent Shortages and Climate Change
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In the first part of our look at 2023 insurance trends, we covered how inflation and interest rates are impacting insurance. Now we turn to other trends we are seeing around talent shortages and climate change. We’ll also take a closer look at industry-specific issues, such as insurtech and producer consolidation, and share how Salesforce...
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Understanding Underwriting in a New Era of Workers’ Comp
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Workers’ compensation is the most highly regulated line of insurance, especially when it comes to underwriting policies. The pandemic exposed many outdated regulations, such as requiring paper documents that are physically signed or using checks instead of electronic banking or debit cards. Another challenge of the pandemic was rethinking the definition of workers’ compensation. It...
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How Digital Experiences are Transforming Workers’ Compensation
Reading time: 6 minutes
Insurers can expect accelerated premium growth in the coming year. While other insurance sectors, such as cyber insurance, have seen rates soar by 25.5% due to ransomware attacks and breaches of remote work locations, only workers’ compensation showed a rate decrease, down an average of 1.74%. This is likely due to U.S. unemployment remaining higher...
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8 Steps to Build a Strong Carrier-Broker Relationship
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As more and more organizations now consider keeping remote or hybrid workforces, they are facing a whole new set of workers’ compensation challenges. Insurers must now consider the safety of a company’s remote work locations in the insurance and underwriting process. They are looking at details such as if employers are accurately reporting the state...
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13 Insurance Highlights from Salesforce’s Winter ’23 Release
Reading time: 6 minutes
Salesforce’s Winter ’23 release notes offer high-level descriptions of new features and enhancements. We’ve combed through the hundreds of pages to share highlights that are especially relevant for insurance industry users so you can review and quickly start benefiting from the new functionality. You can watch a video demo below, or continue reading to see...
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How Insurance Companies Leverage Salesforce for Agency Management
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The relationship between an insurance carrier and their agents is a critical one. A primary objective for a carrier is to make doing business as easy as possible for agents so they will either start or continue to do business with the carrier. This is especially the case with non-captive agents because they have a...
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Drive Digital Transformation with Salesforce Insurance Policy Administration
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The pandemic has been a huge disruption in everyone’s life, so it should come as no surprise that the pandemic was a massive disruptor in the insurance industry. Agents could not hold face-to-face meetings with prospective policyholders, and the days of paper trails to collect information were over. A shift to digital was inevitable, given...
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Webinar Recap: Transforming your claims experience with Vlocity
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Last week, we had the pleasure of chatting with Phil Ostberg from Salesforce Industries. Phil is the Senior Product Manager overseeing Vlocity Claims functionality and we discussed the power of combining FSC Insurance and Vlocity Claims. FSC’s strength is managing the overall claims process with tools such as dashboards to monitor overall status, workflow for...
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Salesforce Winter ‘21 Insurance Release Overview
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Are you ready for 2021? Salesforce’s winter release comes out starting January 8. I recently had the privilege of sitting down with Tom Everard, Principal Solution Engineer at Salesforce, during my Salesforce for Insurance Trailblazer Community meeting. (That’s just one of the perks of being a Trailblazer Community leader and Salesforce MVP!) Tom distilled the...