Mutual Fire survived Prairie catastrophe losses by narrowing its risk, rewriting farm insurance in plain English, and betting on brokers. The lesson is useful far beyond insurance: specialize hard, make the confusing legible, and digitize the bottleneck without abandoning the human who closes the sale.
Canada's largest property and casualty insurer grew by treating insurance as an operating system: price risk better, control more of the repair, and buy only what the machine can improve. The catch is that climate volatility keeps stress-testing every advantage it has built.