Content from Susanne Sclafane
More P/C Carriers With Less Surplus: Aon Ward Analysis
As we head into 2024, many property/casualty companies are primed to grow their businesses, but not all have adequate levels of surplus to support premium growth, an Aon Ward executive said during a ...
No Sugarcoating: Availability Before Affordability, Calif. Regulator Says
If the old adage "As California goes, so goes the nation" is true, then 2024 will be another year of industry retooling as insurers and regulators set a path for the future of the U.S. P/C property ...
Saying Goodbye to 2023: When Will California’s Insurance Crisis End?
"Sorry, America, Your Insurance Has Been Canceled" The words were printed on an iconic Time magazine cover from 1986 depicting a bolt of lightning striking a distant American flag positioned at the ...
Claims or No Claims
"A Moment of Incredible Opportunities" That title on top of a series of slides presented by a featured speaker at a recent Casualty Actuarial Society annual meeting drew my attention. Alex Salkever, ...
More Than an Observer: Carbone Still Igniting Industry’s IoT Passion
There's an image accompanying the next article of this special report showing a closeup profile view of a visionary whose mind is connected to a network of things. (The State Farm Vision: Ecosystem ...
Ending Polarization and Building Future Leaders: Travelers CEO
Challenges facing today's business leaders include keeping pace with rapid change, the leader of Travelers said recently while also going out of his way to cast light on a serious obstacle to forward ...
California’s Next Steps: Picking the Right Cat Models and Staffing Up
Is $11 million too much to pay for a public catastrophe model? Does the California Department of Insurance have to hire a new contingent of specialists to understand private models, if those are ...
Level 5—Full Self-Driving Vehicles—’Will Never Exist,’ Researcher Says
When you're driving your car, do you ever look through the rear window to make sure there's nothing behind it in harm's way? Now that many cars are equipped with backup cameras, looking back is a ...