Content from Russ Banham
Russ Banham is a veteran insurance reporter, business journalist and best-selling author.
Insurers Brace for SEC Climate Risk Disclosure Rules
For U.S. property/casualty insurance carriers, the landmark proposal by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the disclosure of climate-related risks and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) ...
ILS for Casualty: The Backstory of Ledger Investing
In the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew's $15.5 billion in insured losses in 1992, insurance-linked securities emerged to distribute a portion of future property-catastrophe risk to investors. At the ...
An Innovator’s Journey: From Star Litigator to Litigation Finance
For as long as he can remember, Chris Bogart has been interested in the law. As a schoolkid growing up in Toronto, Canada, he enjoyed the thrill of debating, articulating and defending his ideas ...
Why Founders Leave InsurTechs
Ron Glozman has always been a problem-solver, a good skill to have as a tech visionary creating companies that automate manual processes in the insurance industry. Once the business is launched, he's ...
Not Your Grandpa’s MGA: Competition Heats Up in Digital Insurance
For nearly 150 years, managing general agencies have been an important sales and distribution arm of the U.S. insurance industry, initially offering a way for an early insurance company to enter ...
How to Value an InsurTech
Next year, Chubb (tracing its roots back to the birth of the Insurance Company of North America) will turn 230 years old, an extraordinary feat of longevity that partly explains why it's the world's ...
Is Loop the Future of Automobile Insurance?
The annual ATECH Conference in Aruba is promoted as, "Where Tech, Innovation, and Creativity Meet to Become the Future." At the 2015 conference, two young tech entrepreneurs, Carey Anne Nadeau and ...
An Alternative View: Crediting Credit Scores
While InsurTechs like Loop and Buckle are trying to reshape the future of insurance without using credit scores to underwrite or price policies, the rest of the industry has yet to embrace the ...