AIG, McGill Announce Collaboration to Potentially Transform Subscription Market

McGill and Partners and American International Group said they collaborating to perhaps disrupt the subscription market—using agentic artificial intelligence to deploy capital to clients.

AIG said the digital-first platform of the London-based independent broker allowed the insurer to conduct a detailed analysis of McGill’s specialty portfolio and create underwriting criteria to enable real-time underwriting through McGill.

The new AIG-McGill relationship “has the potential to disrupt the dynamics of the subscription market,” said Steve McGill, CEO of McGill and Partners, in a statement. “It strengthens the value proposition of leading underwriters in the market and redefines the way capacity is positioned in the best interests of our clients. This moves beyond incremental change, and repositions the way the market operates in the future.”

AIG said it expects to deploy capacity of 25% across up to $1.6 billion of McGill’s gross premiums written specialty portfolio.

In a collaboration with Palantir, an ontology of McGill’s portfolio was built, ultimately allowing AIG to underwrite the portfolio and use agentic AI to manage its performance, as well as deploy its capacity to McGill on an ongoing basis. Ontology in AI provides concepts to help AI understand the data it is processing and leverage it to produce operational results.

“By leveraging McGill and Partners’ digital broking platform in addition to Palantir’s Foundry platform, AIG will develop comprehensive insights on business underwritten, including near real-time exposure, limit deployment, modelled risk outputs and loss information,” AIG said in a statement.

Peter Zaffino, CEO of AIG, said the evolution of AI is “reshaping risk analytics.” The developed ability to learn from McGill’s portfolio because of its well-established data-ingestion capabilities allows the insurer to “deploy capacity with greater insight, discipline and speed,” and AIG expects “significant opportunity to deliver greater efficiency to the subscription market while giving clients easier access to high-quality insurance solutions,” he added.

The ontology approach has been tested by AIG. Last year in October, AIG said it was acquiring the renewal rights of Everest’s retail commercial business. During AIG’s most recent earnings call, Zaffino said AIG also built an ontology of Everest’s portfolio to prioritize accounts for renewal “in a fraction of the time.”

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With Palantir’s large language models, AIG for the first time late last year used generative AI for a special purpose vehicle in a partnership with Amwins and Blackstone.