Verisk Analytics

Lee Shavel, CEO of Verisk Analytics (NSDQ: VRSK), sits down with Nasdaq's Kristina Ayanian to discuss how one of the insurance industry's data backbones is navigating the AI era. Shavel reflects on how client attitudes toward AI have shifted after years of Verisk quietly building machine learning into its core, what the company's new collaboration with Anthropic's Claude Enterprise means for insurers, and how Verisk approaches AI governance in a sector regulated state-by-state—at a moment when wildfires, convective storms, and other extreme events are raising the stakes. Shavel also shares what excites him most about the road ahead in 2026.