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Why Embedded Insurance is a Game Changer for Businesses
Published by Jessica Weisman-Pitts
Posted on November 24, 2021
5 min readLast updated: January 28, 2026
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Published by Jessica Weisman-Pitts
Posted on November 24, 2021
5 min readLast updated: January 28, 2026
Embedded insurance integrates coverage with products, enhancing customer experience and boosting business conversion rates.
Embedded insurance is growing in popularity these days because it has the potential to build brand loyalty and boost conversion rates. Experts name it a game-changer, and the maxim has excellent chances to be true. Insurance providers operate in a new distribution paradigm these days, where artificial intelligence, data science, and real time communication systems are essential tools for the financial sector. As technology, market dynamics, and economies evolve continually, insurers are presented with the opportunity to revolutionize the way insurance policies are sold and bought. And here is where embedded insurance enters. It’s the answer to the public’s needs and insurers’ searches. Embedding insurance protection into services and products can provide relevant value effectively.
Salty offers coverage or protection within or alongside the purchase of a service or product. In simpler words, embedded insurance comes together with the purchased product and provides protection against damages or other concerns because its goal is to enrich the product experience. The buyer doesn’t purchase insurance coverage separately but benefits from it as a native feature with the service or product they acquire. For example, the equipment businesses purchase come with damage and theft protection right out of the box. The website used to run operations and sell products is also bundled with professional insurance. Embedded insurance is transforming the industry, providing businesses and insurers with a limitless number of solutions offered at the point of sale or in real-time.
For businesses, the idea of getting a one-off plan to protect new products feels complicated, burdensome, and sometimes unnecessary. But products that include embedded insurance allow them to protect their operations and possessions against damage and losses. They offer them peace of mind because they help them narrow the protection gap.
Life is full of uncertainties, and businesses need suitable insurance to cover their assets. But despite this, many practice underinsurance because they think insurers find excuses not to pay the claims. Insurance providers also scrutinize the clients they believe may commit fraud or skip paying claims. Embedded insurance is a solution to these loopholes because it eases the businesses’ burden and motivates them to buy the products that include it.
Insurance providers can develop the right premiums by embedding protection in platforms and products with large customer bases, offering them relevant insurance products at the needed moments in the customer life cycle or the point of sale. Because they can access relevant data to identify their customers’ needs and perform accurate time risk assessments, they can establish fair prices for premiums and embed the products virtually anywhere they identify a risk.
For example, an insurance innovator partnered with a self-driving tech company to develop on-demand insurance that automatically insures the passengers who travel with the company’s fleet. The insurer offered its client on-demand insurance that enables analysis of relevant data, forecasting, tracking, and broad access.
Embedded insurance promises to offer exquisite maintenance propositions and highly differentiated services. Embedded policies thrive in B2B and B2C settings because they deliver higher engagement around prevention and low acquisition costs. Due to its popularity, insurers are ready to invest in gaining a deeper understanding of their customers’ supply chain to provide them with compatible services. Reputable insurers are innovating with OEMs and in-house teams to create embedded insurance that allows them to work collaboratively with start-ups and expand their range of policies. Embedded insurance enables insurance providers to enter emerging ecosystems because it shifts the rigid and outdated premiums and promotes more modern and flexible products. For insurers, this paradigm guarantees new opportunities to target, enter, and develop insurance sectors they’ve never accessed before.
Three factors drive change in the insurance industry: market boundaries, technology, and people. No innovation in the sector is possible without one of them, but the people factor is the strongest one. The most innovative products can succeed and last in time only if people (business owners and individuals) consider them valuable. People find embedded insurance valuable because it appears in their path when they purchase a service or product they already need. They are presented with its benefits at the right time and in the right place.
Embedded insurance allows businesses to build customer relationships. When they collaborate with insurers to create a product fit for their public, they can use it as a gamechanger to retain and enhance the overall customer experience. When embedded insurance is correctly executed, it changes the way businesses sell services and products. Embedded premiums improve customer relationships because they offer targeted services when the clients need them the most.
Bottom line
The introduction of embedded insurance in the business world has opened many doors for both insurers and organizations.
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