ITX Newsletter: August 2026 | Edition 2
This edition looks at how insurers are advancing underwriting, AI orchestration, digital distribution, customer experience, and data-driven decision-making.
We’re also sharing an important leadership update from InsurTech Express, upcoming events from Sureify, MIB, Paperclip, Equisoft, Reuters, and ACORD, new insights from across the ITX community, and practical research from EXL and Growth Verticals.
MIB & Paperless Solutions Group Webinar
August 25, 2026 | Virtual
MIB and Paperless Solutions Group bring together perspectives from the home office and the field, with participants from @Pacific Life, @Protective, @Lincoln Financial, @Simplicity, and @Highland.
The discussion will examine underwriting from both sides of the distribution relationship and how digital tools, automation, and practical collaboration can help improve the application and underwriting process. PSG, an MIB business, provides digital solutions spanning insurance sales, applications, underwriting, and document delivery.
Sureify Summit
September 29, 2026 | 1:00–5:00 PM | ITC Vegas
Sureify will host its 2026 Summit during ITC Vegas at Mandalay Bay. The half-day, sponsor-curated program is designed for the Life & Annuity community and continues Sureify’s focus on modernization, digital experiences, AI, distribution, and the industry’s evolving technology infrastructure.
Paperclip Innovation Showcase | NAILBA 2026 Kickoff Event
October 22, 2026 | 8:00–10:00 AM | Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center
Paperclip will kick off NAILBA week with an exclusive Innovation Showcase Breakfast, offering attendees an early look at its new platform and upcoming industry partnerships.
The event will also include conversations with industry peers and recognition of partner organizations helping drive innovation across the insurance ecosystem. Space is limited, and attendees will be selected by lottery.
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InsurTech Express Announces New Executive Leadership
InsurTech Express has appointed @Nichole Gaines as CEO and @Ron Hensel as President, while founder @Ken Leibow transitions to Executive Chairman.
The new leadership structure supports ITX’s next phase of growth, with expanded focus on strategy, commercial development, partnerships, and market expansion.
1891 Financial Life Launches New Digital Annuity eApp
1891 Financial Life has launched a new digital annuity eApp in partnership with iCover and Solvrays, designed to simplify the application and submission process for agents and clients.
The solution helps reduce paperwork, streamline processing, and create a more connected digital experience while working with existing systems.
Life Insurance Underwriting Has a Data Problem. Here’s What’s Broken
As life insurers expand accelerated and digital underwriting, risk visibility is becoming increasingly important. Checkr Trust examines gaps in criminal and driving data, the challenges of screening applicants too late in the underwriting process, and the growing role of behavioral data as a mortality and risk signal.
The article explores how earlier access to broader public-record and driving data could help carriers identify risk sooner, improve automated decisioning, and make underwriting resources more efficient.
Transparent Risk Stratification with ExamOne’s Risk Identifier
ExamOne
More data is useful, but understanding why an applicant falls into a particular risk category can be even more valuable.
ExamOne explains how Risk Identifier combines prescription, laboratory, and medical claims data into a detailed risk profile using a transparent debit/credit scoring approach. This can help carriers differentiate risk within the same condition, identify candidates for accelerated pathways, and focus experienced underwriting resources on more complex cases.
Modernizing Life, LTC and Annuity Sales Enablement
This week’s Partner Spotlight features Ensight, a sales enablement platform supporting carriers, distributors, BGAs, broker-dealers, institutions, financial professionals, and insurance producers.
Ensight brings together capabilities for case design and quoting, interactive sales presentations, sales playbooks, advisor engagement intelligence, and AI-assisted proposal and illustration generation through ENSI™, its personal sales assistant.
Its platform supports more than 400 products, while distribution partners use Ensight for millions of Life and LTC illustration quotes each year.
NAIFA’s Political Action Committees Mark 60 Years of Advocacy
NAIFA is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its political action committees, which were established in 1966 as a nonpartisan effort to provide insurance and financial professionals with a robust voice in the legislative arena.
Currently, NAIFA’s federal and state PACs persist in supporting advocacy designed to educate policymakers on how financial professionals contribute to the financial security of American families. The organization reports that its PAC network successfully raised over $1.5 million from a base of more than 2,600 contributors throughout 2025.
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AI in Insurance: From Adoption to Lasting Advantage
EXL
AI adoption is accelerating—but adoption and maturity are not the same thing.
EXL’s latest research found that 76% of insurers believe they are ahead of competitors in AI adoption, while only 6% qualify as AI leaders. Data remains one of the biggest barriers: 92% of insurance executives surveyed say data presents a challenge to AI success.
The report examines where AI is producing measurable results, why some organizations are moving successfully from pilots to production, and what separates companies building scalable AI capabilities from those still experimenting.
From Buying Leads to Building Growth Intelligence
Growth Verticals
Growth Verticals explores how insurance product and data science teams can move beyond traditional lead buying by using connected market intelligence. Its G1 Platform brings together customer identity, intent signals, faster modeling, and outcome measurement to help teams better understand who is in the market, when they are ready, and what drives profitable growth.
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