Carrier Management 5/18/2021- Is Loop the Future of Automobile Insurance?

Robert P. Hartwig, PhD, CPCU · May 18, 2021 ·

Loop, a managing general agency, is planning on selling auto policies with premiums based on a combination of telematics produced driving behavior and AI data on unsafe road conditions. Read more about Loop in Carrier Management’s article here. Carrier Management reached out to Dr. Robert Hartwig for an industry professional’s perspective on Loop. Hartwig said, “By lowering the premiums of policyholders that adhere to the feedback on dangerous roads, highways and intersections, Loop incentivizes overall safety. That’s a differentiating value proposition.”

About Robert P. Hartwig, PhD, CPCU

Director, Risk and Uncertainty Management Center
Clinical Associate Professor
Robert Hartwig (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1993) is clinical associate professor of finance and director of the Risk and Uncertainty Management Center. His research focuses on insurance markets and structures, risk management, pandemic risk, risk-bearing capital market instruments, the financing of technology risks and venture capital in insurance markets. He makes frequent presentations to insurance industry management, boards of directors, regulators and legislators. Prior to joining the Darla Moore School of Business, he was president and economist for the Insurance Information Institute in New York and in prior positions worked for Swiss Re, the National Council on Compensation Insurance and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. He has also served as an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University. His professional experience includes expert witness testimony and testimony before numerous congressional and state legislative committees. He holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) credential and speaks frequently in the media on all issues related to insurance markets.