Insurance for the New Possible was joined by Garrett Olson, Head of Insurance and ERM at Wolt, and Sebastian de Zulueta, Head of Digital Business, EMEA at Chubb.
Some of the insights they shared included:
- Online malls are the new civic space—and they require digital integrity. These platforms, intermediated by code, must establish rules, norms, and enforcement mechanisms just like physical spaces.
- Trust online should mirror real-world signals—but at a technological level. In a physical mall, people intuitively scan others, read social cues, and rely on physical presence for trust. Online, this becomes a technological challenge. Platforms must recreate this trust using data signals.
- Insurance needs to be where people work, live, and play. By embedding protection into these everyday categories, users don’t have to seek coverage—they just receive it as part of the value they’re already creating on the platform.
- Gig workers currently operate with massive risk—and little protection. From couriers to freelancers, platform workers face daily operational, personal, and reputational risks and W0lt and Chubb are working hard to fix this.
- To make insurance invisible and automatic, platforms need precise data triggers—moments when insurance should start or pay out. This includes real-time events like delivery delays, missed gigs, or customer disputes.