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Insurance
The Smarter Approach for Recruiting Insurance Agents and Faster Onboarding
Reading time: 2 minutes
We cannot yet know the long-term implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. The outbreak has presented major challenges to all kinds of financial service businesses as they rush to shift strategies and tactics in response to changing customer needs. For insurance carriers, likely effects of the pandemic will include slower growth, additional pressure on profitability, as...
Insurance
Digital Transformation in Insurance Quote to Issue
Reading time: 4 minutes
Now, more than ever before, prospective clients have higher expectations of Insurers. In many cases, especially in direct-to-client distribution models, the first meaningful interaction between the applicant and carrier is a quote. So that quote needs to provide more than just numbers, it needs to provide an experience — and a good one at that....
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How to Improve the Claims Management Process
Reading time: 4 minutes
What does your claims process look like? Most insurance carriers typically have confusing multi-tiered processes that the average customer struggles to figure out and ignores the emotional journey the claimant is most likely going through. Customers expect digital self-service experiences in everything from food delivery, same-day shipping, to breaking news on social media; they’re going...
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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
Reading time: 4 minutes
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...
Insurance
Insurers, Are You Using Salesforce to See More ROI on Agents?
Reading time: 3 minutes
It takes a significant amount of time, effort, and resources to secure and onboard an agent before they sell anything. Many carriers have had experiences in which an agent sells one opportunity and then never sells another product. How does a company avoid this loss of ROI? And how can a carrier take an agent...
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Insurance Industry Trends 2023: The Impact of Inflation and Interest Rates
Reading time: 5 minutes
The insurance sector is not for the faint of heart. The massive insurance landscape is a fast-changing world of ebbs and flows, and the industry is continually influenced by trends that are beyond its control but that organizations need to overcome in order to succeed. Here we’ll dive into some of those insurance trends around...
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Understanding Underwriting in a New Era of Workers’ Comp
Reading time: 4 minutes
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
Reading time: 5 minutes
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...
