The Rise of Insurtech: How Technology is Transforming the Insurance Industry - The Ritz Herald

The insurtech market is entering a new phase as managing general agents (MGAs) shift their focus from rapid growth toward underwriting discipline, insurance expertise, and sustainable performance. Across North America, a select group of MGAs is using automation and artificial intelligence while working with reinsurance capacity providers or insurance carriers. Over the past decade, the insurtech MGA market has evolved through three distinct waves.

At ITC Vegas, iSolved EVP tells Insurance Business Benefits the volume of agentic items that live beneath the user platform took him by surprise The health and welfare benefits industry is long overdue for disruption – and agentic artificial intelligence could be the force that finally delivers that change.

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A supply-chain attack involving ConnectWise’s cloud services has exposed Microsoft 365 customers to unauthorized application access, with researchers reporting successful sign-ins across 173 partner and customer tenants. The incident centres on credentials associated with ConnectWise Cloud Backup, formerly SkyKick, and raises concerns about attackers exploiting permissions already entrusted to business software. ConnectWise has confirmed unauthorized access to application identities within its Cloud Backup environment. In an October 17 update on its service-status page, the company said it was shutting off application access, interrupting customer backups while investigation and remediation continued.