Europe & North America had 30.4 million active insurance telematics policies in 2022- Berg Insight
Gothenburg, Sweden – October 6, 2023: According to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of insurance telematics policies in force on the European market reached 13.6 million in Q4-2022. Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.9 percent, this number is expected to reach 20.7 million. This is expected to happen by 2027. In North America, we expect the number of policies in force to grow at a CAGR of 11.7 percent from 16.8 million in Q4-2022. It is projected to reach 29.2 million in 2027. The US, Italy, the UK and Canada are still the largest markets in terms of insurance telematics policies. The North American market’s major players include US-based Progressive, Allstate, Liberty Mutual, Nationwide, and State Farm, alongside Canada’s Intact Financial Corporation and Desjardins.
The Italian insurers UnipolSai and Generali together accounted for around 50 percent of the telematics-enabled policies in Europe. Insurers with a strong adoption in the UK moreover include Admiral Group and Direct Line. Aftermarket black boxes largely dominate the European insurance telematics market. Mobile applications followed by self-install OBD devices represent the vast majority of the active policies in North America. Berg Insight expects a continued increase in the uptake of smartphone-based solutions in all markets. They also anticipate an increase in the use of OEM telematics data in usage-based insurance programs.
The insurance telematics value chain spans multiple industries, including a large ecosystem of companies. This ecosystem extends far beyond the insurance industry players. “Automotive OEMs like Ford, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, Tesla, and Toyota have all launched solutions. These solutions enable usage-based insurance for their customers”, said Caspar Jansson, IoT Analyst at Berg Insight. Connected car applications put OEMs closer to the drivers. Players such as LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Verisk, and CCC Information Services partner with OEMs and normalize connected car data in telematics exchanges. This enables insurers to utilize telematics data from a vast range of sources as long as the policyholders agree to share their driving data.
Aftermarket telematics still plays an important role in the market for usage-based insurance. Octo Telematics has a dominant market share with more than 5.7 million devices installed in insurance telematics programs. Other end-to-end solution providers such as Vodafone Automotive, Viasat Group, Targa Telematics, IMS and The Floow are also important players on the insurance telematics market. “Smartphone-based insurance telematics solutions are becoming a more mature solution now. We can see many insurers that start to take advantage of the concept’s potential in claims handling and as a marketing tool, for example.”, continued Mr Jansson.
Cambridge Mobile Telematics is a leading player in the mobile-based segment of insurance telematics. It powers more than 10 million insurance telematics policies, mainly in the US. Other notable vendors of smartphone-based insurance telematics solutions include Arity (a subsidiary of Allstate). Additional vendors in this space are Dolphin Technologies, Radius Telematics, Sentiance, OSeven Telematics, Movingdots, DriveQuant, Sycada, and Telematics Technologies. “People choose smartphone-based policies because they offer a low-cost implementation. Insurers can also increase their customer interaction and loyalty with well-thought-out marketing and gamification features.”, concluded Mr. Jansson.
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