Most insurers pay a claim and wave goodbye. People's Trust built its own construction company so it could show up with trucks instead.
The company that skipped the insurance agent, hired a British-accented lizard, and turned '15 minutes' into one of the most repeated sentences in American advertising.
The 174-year-old insurer has made a modern wager on an old-fashioned middleman: the independent agent. Behind that choice sits a broad coverage portfolio, specialized risk expertise and a business built to price the unexpected.
Slide became one of Florida's largest home insurers by doing the unfashionable work of pricing hurricane risk - then pairing old-school agents with a very modern data engine.
Delos Insurance Solutions is a San Francisco insurtech and managing general agent that uses satellite imagery, fire science, and machine learning to insure California homeowners in wildfire-prone areas that traditional carriers have abandoned. Founded by two aerospace engineers, Delos models wildfire risk at the individual-property level using NASA Earth-observation data, climate science, and hundreds of risk parameters, allowing it to write coverage on homes the rest of the market deems uninsurable.