September 30, 2026 A Guide to Startups: Insurtech for Life, Annuity, and Benefits Insurers 2026 Life, annuity, and benefits (L/A/B) carriers have moved AI into production, and the focus now is proving returns. Datos Insights... Ashley Lee Life, Annuities, Benefits Ashley Lee | Laurel Jordan | Sakshi Gupta |
September 25, 2026 The New Basis of Competition: How AI Will Reshape Insurance Operating Models Insurance carriers are caught between margin pressure from above and below. AI-driven comparison tools are eroding the brand insulation that... Jack Krantz Insurance, Life, Annuities, Benefits, Property & Casualty Insurance Jack Krantz |
August 28, 2026 From Data Problems to AI Readiness: What Good Enough Actually Looks Like in L/A/B Insurance The L/A/B insurance sector has spent years promising data transformation. The AI wave has turned that promise into pressure, and... Laurel Jordan Life, Annuities, Benefits Laurel Jordan |
August 13, 2026 Emerging Technology for Life, Annuities, and Benefits Insurers, 2026 Data Platform-as-a-Service has hit 50% deployment. Agentic AI adoption tripled this year. Yet only three technologies show formally measured ROI,... Caitlin Simmons Life, Annuities, Benefits Caitlin Simmons | Laurel Jordan |
August 11, 2026 AI Implementations in 2026: The Pilot Phase Is Over for Life/Annuities Group Benefit Carriers Life, annuities, and group benefits carriers moved AI from pilot to production fast. 73% run AI in production today, up... Jack Krantz Insurance, Life, Annuities, Benefits Jack Krantz |
July 21, 2026 Governance of Business User-Built AI Agents CIOs who have gone looking for a complete inventory have generally not found one. The tools are enterprise-licensed and readily available; they... Jack Krantz Life, Annuities, Benefits, Property & Casualty Insurance Jack Krantz |
July 16, 2026 Building an AI Governance Model That Doesn’t Slow You Down CIOs who have gone looking for a complete inventory have generally not found one. The tools are enterprise-licensed and readily... Caitlin Simmons Life, Annuities, Benefits, Property & Casualty Insurance Caitlin Simmons | Jack Krantz |
July 15, 2026 What We’re Hearing, Q2 2026: Life/Annuity/Benefits Insurers Phased migration, mainframe optimization, and block-based strategies have emerged as the dominant responses to legacy system debt. Core platform migrations,... Laurel Jordan Life, Annuities, Benefits Laurel Jordan | Steven Kaye |
July 14, 2026 Individual Life Market Challenges in 2026 Consumers continue to believe that individual life insurance is too expensive and are still unclear on what products and face... Laurel Jordan Life, Annuities, Benefits Laurel Jordan | Steven Kaye |
June 30, 2026 Insurer IT in 2026: Bigger Budgets, Bolder AI, and a Data Problem That Won’t Wait What the latest Datos Insights CIO survey tells us about where insurers are spending and where they’re stuck Sakshi Gupta Insurance, Life, Annuities, Benefits, Property & Casualty Insurance Sakshi Gupta |
June 30, 2026 From Pilots to Production: What Life, Annuities, and Benefits Leaders Are Learning About Agentic AI The conversation has shifted. A year ago, life, annuity, and benefits (L/A/B) carriers were running pilots. Now that they’re in... Charlie Kirchofer Insurance, Life, Annuities, Benefits, Property & Casualty Insurance Charlie Kirchofer |
June 12, 2026 Agentic AI Is a Data and People Problem Before It Is a Technology Problem Our recent gathering in Chicago put insurance technology leaders and practitioners in front of the same question from a dozen... Jack Krantz Insurance, Life, Annuities, Benefits, Property & Casualty Insurance Jack Krantz |
May 29, 2026 Pillar Five: Speed as a Strategic Weapon This blog post is part of a series covering the five pillars of the Intelligent Insurer Operating Model. Click the... Datos Insights Insurance, Life, Annuities, Benefits, Property & Casualty Insurance Datos Insights |
May 26, 2026 Your Developers Are Becoming Supervisors. That Creates a New Security Problem. Agent-first IDEs promise to double developer productivity, but insurance IT organizations that don’t rethink code review for AI-generated output are... Jack Krantz Insurance, Life, Annuities, Benefits, Property & Casualty Insurance Jack Krantz |
May 19, 2026 Pillar Four: The Composer and the Conductor This blog post is part of a series covering the five pillars of the Intelligent Insurer Operating Model. Click the links here... Datos Insights Insurance, Life, Annuities, Benefits, Property & Casualty Insurance Datos Insights |
