Content from Robert T. Reville
Robert T. Reville is the Chief Executive Officer of Praedicat.
Social Inflation and the Risk of D&O-GL Clash
Social inflation is the primary explanation offered for the need to increase general liability and excess casualty premiums in the last two years. With social inflation, injured parties are more ...
The Risk of ‘Take-Home’ COVID-19 and the ‘Next Asbestos’
Estimates of the size of COVID-19's impact on the insurance industry vary widely, but some companies (including Chubb and Willis Re) have suggested that, considering both asset and liability losses, ...
Growing Risk for SME Insurers: Duty to Defend Cats
Until recently, there was a relative lull in new mass tort events in the United States. This led to a sense among insurers that mass litigation was no longer the looming threat that it was in the ...
What Is the ‘Next Opioids’ and What Will It Mean for Casualty Insurance?
Opioids litigation, with over 2,000 cases brought by state and local governments against dozens of defendants including opioids manufacturers, retailers and distributors, is being closely watched by ...
Liability Long Tail Could Get Longer
One of the most challenging things about liability insurance is that claims on this year's policy might be made well into the future. If exposure to a chemical, product or business activity this year ...
‘Underwriting by Google’ Leads to Wrong Answers on Autism Drivers
A chief underwriting officer of one of the largest P/C insurers once said to us, "I don't know what the next asbestos will be, but it will be whatever causes autism." The rate of autism spectrum ...
Risks and Non-Risks in the Obesity Epidemic: Praedicat Analysis
Are the products used to build our buildings also making us fat? Are our diet sodas giving us cancer? As though it isn't hard enough to watch our diets, as insurers we have to worry about what it all ...
Latency Catastrophe and the Occurrence Form
Over the last 30 years, natural catastrophe modeling has transformed property insurance. When Hurricane Andrew devastated Florida in August 1992, seven domestic insurance companies and one foreign ...