Content from Don Jergler
Google Compare May Go Beyond Auto Insurance
The way Valen Analytics President and CEO Dax Craig describes it, Google's move into insurance with Google Compare for auto insurance is an "all-aboard, wake-up-and-smell-the-coffee" call to the ...
Climate Change Modeling on Cusp of Paradigm Shift
In the face of growing interest in climate change impacts, several big catastrophe modelers said they've heard from more clients interested in receiving climate-related data and they believe the ...
Mercury ‘Super Agents’ Take to National Airwaves
Be on the lookout for super agents on a high-tech mission to better inform and serve insurance customers. That's the theme in a series of techy and dynamic Mercury Insurance commercials now popping ...
Munich Re: Most Americans Now Believe in Climate Change
More than 8 in 10 Americans now believe the climate is changing—although they place that concern beneath issues like global political instability, economic crisis or a pandemic, according to a new ...
Risk and Insurance Experts Predict Thanksgiving NFL Winners, Losers
Ah, Thanksgiving. A time for family, good meals and joy—unless your team epically fails on national television, stirring your gut into an acidic cauldron of turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and ...
PCI, III React to Climate Change Report Slamming Insurers
A report on the insurance industry released last Wednesday shows "a profound lack of preparedness in addressing climate-related risks and opportunities." Insurance industry representatives ...
Prop. 103 vs. Self-Driving Cars Revving Up in California
Way back in 1988 it probably seemed like the idea of self-driving vehicles was about as far off as flying cars or hovercraft. That was the year California voters enacted Proposition 103, giving an ...
Marijuana and Workers Comp
There are some who believe medical marijuana and the workplace are a potent mix just waiting to be stirred as increasingly more states approve the herb and its derivatives for medicinal use. Not only ...