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Innovation Special Report

Innovation in insurance? Some would contend that's an oxymoron. Others that insurance was one of the most innovative financial services products ever created. We spent nearly an entire issue on the topic--on products, technology, underwriting, alternative risk--and can say that even we were surprised by some of our own answers to this question.

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Innovation: Shackled Souls
2007-09-15

By Cyril Tuohy

It's hard to innovate when your hands are tied by rules, compromise and the difficulty of accurately setting aside reserves for future losses.

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Three Cooks: Recipes

Forces of Innovation
2007-09-15

By Cyril Tuohy

Two forces, transformationalism and incrementalism, offer insight into different approaches on how best to move the insurance industry forward.

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Innovation's Four Mega-Trends

Progressing From the Ways and Days of the UNIVAC
2007-09-15

By Cyril Tuohy

Before groaning about how slow the insurance industry is when it comes to technological adoption, think of how far it's come.

Innovation: The Tortoise and the Hare
2007-09-15

By Tom Starner

Property/casualty carriers were the first companies to adopt mainframes, but have since lagged in adopting other technologies, proving once more that the industry insists on moving at its own pace.

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An Industry of Innovative Ideas
2007-09-15

By Cyril Tuohy and Matthew Brodsky

... and now, for a totally unscientific, in no particular order, listing of ideas whose time has come, or that never went out of fashion.

The Reformer
2007-09-15

By Patricia Vowinkel

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Innovation: Gaining Acceptance
2007-09-15

By Jack Roberts

The insurance-linked securities marketplace is now seen as an accepted class of risk.

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The Holy Grail

A Matter of Timeliness
2007-09-15

By Cyril Tuohy

On the silver screen, anachronisms elicit a smile from the sharp-eyed viewer. But when they surface in the world of multimillion-dollar coverage contracts, the joke's over.



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