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February 23, 2021

The current challenges facing insurers in Germany

"They are slowly dying out." No, you don't have to put it quite that drastically, but the experts at insurance companies who are also familiar with old conditions are slowly retiring. This means that a… Continue Reading

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January 26, 2021

Dirty Data: The Downfall of the Modern Insurer

Understanding data integrity is the Rosetta Stone for collecting, interpreting, translating, and communicating the “how” when course-correcting haphazard or disjointed workflows. Historically, insurance organizations have suffered from data issues requiring manual workarounds to adjust or… Continue Reading

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November 5, 2020

Claims after COVID: Operation Transformation

As might have been expected, insurers are seeing a decline in new business as a result of COVID-19. The steadily rising growth rates of the last few years have come under heavy pressure as the global pandemic rages on. And in order to maintain results, insurers are taking countermeasures. Claims costs and claims settlement costs together make up 80-90% of… Continue Reading

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June 16, 2020

The Corona-Crossroad for Claims

Thomas Hauschild, omni:us product boss, had the following to say on the state of affairs right now in mid-2020, with special reference to insurance: "The phased removal of Covid-19 lockdown measures is ramping up the… Continue Reading

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April 21, 2020

A chat with the CEO of UNIQA Ventures

I've given quite a few interviews lately - time to turn the tables! I spoke to investor and colleague Dr. Andreas Nemeth, CEO of UNIQA Ventures last week, and picked his brain on some of… Continue Reading

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March 4, 2020

A warm welcome to our new investors

Today, I’m very pleased to announce a further “A+” round of funding for omni:us. After another year of development, growth and learning as a company, it sometimes felt like we were discovering new opportunities at… Continue Reading

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February 17, 2020

A new dawn for document intake

90% OF CLAIM DATA STILL COMPILED MANUALLY   Insurance is not static. It is, however, slow-moving. Everywhere omni:us travels, from Europe over to North America, we find claims teams that are still manually classifying and… Continue Reading

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January 30, 2020

the insurance workforce:
an evolution

It was a lasting issue for years. The seemingly unchanging fact was that the word “insurance” didn’t inspire a lot of excitement among the young people of the 21st century. With millennials gradually becoming the… Continue Reading

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December 20, 2019

2019 Wrap-Up

Looking back on the year, I feel very proud of our achievements – with one of our core values in mind: “We solve real business problems” we made a lot of smart moves and a… Continue Reading

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December 12, 2019

Disrupt Berlin 2019

I just had a great talk with Emily Foges of Luminance and Devin Coldewey of TechCrunch at Disrupt Berlin 2019. Thanks to both for an enjoyable dialogue. Some parts really stood out to me from… Continue Reading

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