The economy has a growing collection of oddly named consumers. One has two incomes, no children and a dog. Another earns plenty but has yet to build much wealth. A third is old enough to remember dial-up internet and young enough, apparently, to spend heavily...
Employees at insurance broker MRH Trowe wanted artificial intelligence to help with their daily work. Teams started trying AI tools on their own. That created a risk for the company. Sensitive client and insurance data could end up in software nobody at the firm controlled....
Insurers are in the predictability business. Artificial intelligence is an unpredictable technology. For CFOs and CISOs and their cyber insurance partners, that uncomfortable juxtaposition is becoming harder to ignore as enterprises move from generative AI that produces content toward agentic AI systems that can make...
As Congress returned from its summer recess last week, lawmakers proposed a series of artificial intelligence-related measures, including a ban on development of superintelligent AI systems and human review of health insurance decisions. The most sweeping proposal came from Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, whose...
September 08, 2026
A traveler lands after a long connection, only to find the next flight has already left without them. In the old version of this story, they’d spend the next hour on hold, then wait weeks for a reimbursement check to show up in the mail. Elad Schaffer, co-founder and CEO of AI-powered, end-to-end travel insurance […]
August 11, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Eileen Carlin of One Inc An insurer can approve a claim and still leave the policyholder waiting because the body shop, contractor, medical provider...
July 30, 2026
Healthcare costs are squeezing consumer confidence from both ends of the age spectrum. Baby boomers and seniors in the United States face steep routine bills, while Generation Z reports increases...
July 27, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With One Inc’s Kishore Konakanchi For insurers, payments have long served as the moments when policyholders notice the mechanics of the relationship. A premium must...
October 06, 2026
Insurance companies are reportedly anticipating multimillion-dollar claims related to so-called “rogue” artificial intelligence (AI) agents. That’s according to a report Tuesday (Oct. 6) by the Financial Times (FT), which says the situation has insurers and their attorneys worried that CEOs such as Sam Altman of OpenAI and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei could be held liable for […]
August 27, 2026
The rise of artificial intelligence-powered hacks has cyber insurance firms rethinking their policies, Reuters reported Thursday (Aug. 27). The industry shakeup follows a series of cyberattacks by AI models from...
August 18, 2026
Costco plans to start offering a Medicare plan and other senior-focused insurance products over the coming years. The retailer partnered with SCAN Health Plan, a nonprofit organization focused on healthcare...
August 14, 2026
Insurance company Allstate is investing in quantum computing now so that the company is ready to take advantage of the technology when it arrives, Allstate Chair, President and CEO Tom...
