Paul Carroll

Research finds that the insurance industry is above average in innovating with AI but has more levers it could be pulling to get the full benefits.

With a president-elect who talks about the "climate hoax," insurers can play a key role in ensuring that progress continues on resilience in the face of climate change.

The winners of the Global Innovation Awards, which the International Insurance Society and ITL handed out last week, suggest a revealing theme.

We need to sharpen our language to stem the tsunami of lawsuits financed by private equity. Let's start talking about "dark money" and "billboard lawyers."

Amid all the turmoil in the auto market, as we move in fits and starts toward electric and even autonomous vehicles, here's a new wrinkle: Data suggest that car sales have peaked.

After the initial wave of AI efforts and then the generative AI phenomenon that began two years ago, you'll hear a lot in 2025 about AI that can act as our agents.

Based on readership, these are the themes that most resonated with subscribers to Six Things in 2024.

Expect even more AI than you saw in 2024, powering search engines; agentic AI; smaller, more precise generative AI models; robotaxis and robots. And that's just for openers.

In theory, increasing insurance premiums signals rising risk and spurs action that mitigates disasters like California's fires. In practice, climate is changing too fast, and government is being too slow.

Many more executives say AI is the transformational technology of this generation, akin to the internet 30 years ago, and are reporting tangible gains from its implementation.