Content from Susanne Sclafane
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 ...
‘Hard But More Manageable’ Jan. 1 Renewals; Little Relief on Retentions
The hard reinsurance market in property-catastrophe reinsurance isn't coming to an end at Jan. 1, 2024, but reinsurers are likely to deploy more of their capacity next year, broker executives said ...
When Will the Hard Reinsurance Market End?
Higher retentions on property-catastrophe reinsurance programs are here to stay going into next year's renewals, reinsurance brokers predicted recently. Related article: 'Hard But More Manageable' ...
Wait ‘Til 2025: The Hartford Won’t See Auto Profit Next Year
Even after putting through 20 percent rate hikes over the course of this year, The Hartford needs another round of similar magnitude next year, the insurance company's leader said recently. The ...