Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Category: Insurance

  • There is increasing interest among insurers in getting contractors as well as developers to buy in to the inclusion of leak detection systems in building projects. Intelligent Insurer reports. Published by Intelligent Insurer on 16th May 2019. Author: Graham Jarvis. Client: LeakSafe. 

  • “This increasing risk comes at a high price. Cybercrime has a direct GDP cost of at least $275 billion per year currently, according to researchers, RAND. All these challenges are causing headaches for CEOs, CTOs, CRMOs, and insurers, above all. It’s understandably become one of the most important risks to evaluate for insurance buyers, in…

  • John S. Franklin, a spokesperson for insurance company Aviva, says connected services cover a wide range of products and propositions – from driver assistance and driver wellbeing to vehicle maintenance and breakdown prevention. Maps, in-car wi-fi and infotainment are other examples of connected services.

  • David Smith, chief executive of Global Futures and Foresight says the need to grow and attract digital talent in the insurance industry is not really so much about competition between the different players. The competition that is hotting-up is between insurers and other players – typically with those within the Fintech space, whom aren’t from…

  • The move being made to make insurance digitally attractive investigated by Graham Jarvis. Published by TU Automotive magazine on 27th April 2019. 

  • Challenges for insurers devising policy plans for ADAS and autonomous explored by Graham Jarvis. By reputation the insurance industry is often seen as a slow-moving beast but research suggests that their pace is changing. It seems that insurers are keenly embracing new technologies, such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and they are taking steps…

  • “We need data to understand who’s responsible in the event of an accident,” he replies. The second challenge in his opinion is related to the first one because with the development of autonomous driving there needs to be an evolution of the regulatory framework to answer the liability question. “In a number of countries most…

  • The opening day’s theme revolved around a drive to use the vehicle data, Graham Jarvis reports This year’s Connected Car Insurance Europe opened for the first day with topical discussions about the future of the insurance industry, the need to use telematics data as the stepping to stone to this goal, how telematics can be…

  • The key challenge is to make the ‘KYC’ process more efficient to avoid false positives and false negatives by using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to automate the data analysis.

  • Autonomous liability creates a dual coverage, Graham Jarvis discovers. Traditional motor insurance makes the driver of the vehicle potentially liable for any damage or injury caused by an accident, whether that involves the policyholder or a third party. With autonomous vehicles it opens up many liability questions – particularly in the case when the car…