CEO at Voltaire
The NAIC pilot does not certify products or create new law, but it gives carriers and their technology partners an early look at how insurance AI may be examined.
The next phase of insurance AI governance will be decided one claim at a time, by whether a carrier can reconstruct what the system saw, what it produced, what the human changed, and who owned the decision.
The business case for claims AI should decide whether a workflow deserves production, not merely whether a pilot produced a savings estimate.
Florida's reforms reduced the incentives for runaway property litigation, and Voltaire has been helping claims teams turn that better legal environment into clearer, faster, more policy-grounded correspondence.
Talent scarcity is forcing claims AI out of the innovation lab and into daily operations. AI can extend scarce claims expertise by removing the repetitive drafting, lookup, and review work that bogs down and frustrates adjusters.
Plaintiffs and public adjusters have industrialized AI; the carriers that answer it well will be the ones whose adjusters actually use the tools they buy, and two claims leaders (Harbor Claims, Heritage Insurance) show what that takes.
Claims correspondence has never been more jurisdictionally complex, the mistakes have never been easier for the other side to find at scale, and the durable response is AI that gives the adjuster time back, not AI that takes the decision away.
While AI summarization reduces existing data, claims correspondence is a generative legal act that requires synthesizing policy language and jurisdictional mandates into a defensible record.
Capgemini's new World P&C Insurance Report puts hard numbers on what claims and underwriting leaders have suspected for two years. The trailblazers redesigned work. Everyone else automated the edges.
New educational reference center from the leading AI-powered claims correspondence platform catalogs 50+ jurisdictions, dozens of letter types, and 9 P&C LOBs as claims correspondence is increasingly impacted by AI-powered plaintiffs
AI-powered claims correspondence platform wins four Stevie® Awards — including two Gold — in The 24th Annual American Business Awards®, and is named a finalist in the 2026 PropertyCasualty360 Insurance Luminaries program
The Secret History of Claims Correspondence, a free book by Voltaire, maps 90 years of case law and 670 court decisions to reveal the complex, state-specific rules governing claims communications.
The words carriers put on paper can cost more than the claim itself. These three cases show what happens when claims letters are careless — and what every carrier should learn from them.
In January 2026, Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and Senate Insurance Committee Chair Steve Padilla introduced SB 876: the Disaster Recovery Reform Act. The bill aims to accelerate claims handling and expand coverage during catastrophes.
Carriers have poured billions into modernizing every stage of the claims lifecycle except the final, most consequential step: the letter that communicates the coverage decision. And in 2026, that gap is where lawsuits are born.