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Brent Francom
Director of Product Management
Tasked with keeping us at the leading edge of location data intelligence, Brent helps us grow market share and execute our product vision and strategy. He has a history of excellence as he's served in Assistant Vice President and Principal Product Manager roles at Verisk Property Estimating Solutions and XactAnalysis. He has a Bachelor's degree in Business/IT Education from Southern Utah University. We're super happy to have him on the team!
All posts by Brent Francom - Director of Product Management
Leveraging Smarty's address intelligence and geocoding tools to mitigate insurance losses
By Brent Francom on July 31, 2024
The U. S. homeowner’s insurance segment is facing unprecedented challenges, marked by the worst underwriting results since at least 2000. According to a recent report by AM Best, the segment experienced a staggering $15. 2 billion underwriting loss in 2023, more than double the losses seen in the previous year. They credit this dramatic increase in insured losses primarily to population migration into areas where weather-related events occur more frequently, coupled with rising urbanization and development in regions susceptible to natural perils.
Address affairs causing healthcare hiccups: Part 2
By Brent Francom on November 9, 2023
Software in the healthcare industryIn our previous post, we diagnosed the problems associated with having bad address data in the world of healthcare. If you would like to go over those again, or if you stumbled upon Post 2 before Post 1, you can read about those problems here. In this second installment, you'll learn about the solutions to those problems from a software development standpoint. As you may already know, the healthcare system often relies on robust software systems to keep patient’s electronic health records and billing in the same place.