As insurers look to the following horizon of enlargement with an inclusive and numerous strategy, there are a selection of alternatives influencing scale potential together with acquisitions, capital investments, the metaverse and the emergence of insurtech 2.0.

On this month’s Insurance coverage Information Evaluation, Joanne Laffan and I focus on how a pre-scale insurer like Lemonade is planning to leapfrog its rivals by means of its latest acquisition of Metromile, a pay-per-mile automotive insurance coverage firm.

With the arrival of Ethereum Merge in an effort to fight the carbon-intense vitality consumption from blockchain in cryptocurrency, we focus on what it means for insurers’ capital investments as they’re attempting to remain on high of each new expertise and web zero targets.

We additionally focus on a number of the early methods we count on to see the metaverse impression insurers’ operations and their buyer and worker experiences. Plus we concentrate on the implications of so-called ‘insurtech 2.0’ which emerged as a sizzling matter of dialog at ITC 2022 in Las Vegas.

Lastly, after a brand new U.S. Home Committee report discovered there was little change in racial, ethnic and gender illustration amongst workers on the largest U.S. insurers between 2017 and 2021, we focus on practices that insurers can implement to make sure inclusion and variety is promoted.