Complimentary Webinar
Flood, Fleet, and Filings
Milliman’s Nancy Watkins led a complimentary roundtable webinar to discuss strategies and creative approaches to launching new products quickly in challenging markets.
The roundtable showcased three case studies – in flood insurance, commercial auto insurance, and clearing regulatory hurdles – that demonstrate how technology solutions and creative approaches can deliver new products to market quickly and at scale.
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Flood: James Watje, Senior Vice President from Wright Flood, the largest private U.S. flood insurer, discussed breaking into the market with innovative products and new partnering opportunities. |
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Fleet: Ananth Rani, Co-founder of Azuga, a leading fleet management software provider, shared how his company developed a new telematics score to monetize its existing data and help restore commercial auto insurance profitability. |
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Filings: Peggy Brinkmann – creator of Milliman Appleseed, a new advisory organization – explained how to cut red tape, so that anyone with admitted solutions can reference these filings to get to market faster with less risk and cost. |
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Host: Nancy Watkins is a principal and consulting actuary with the Property and Casualty practice in Milliman's San Francisco office. She manages an actuarial consulting practice that specializes in Insuretech and property insurance analytics. |
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