Content from Susanne Sclafane
Hard Market Game Refuses to End: Arch Capital CEO
Drawing analogies to an epic tennis match and the hands of a clock, the leader of Bermuda-based Arch Capital declared the current hard market one of the longest the P/C industry has ever experienced. ...
Barring Change, Allstate May Exit California Property Market Completely
The topic of a recent California insurance department workshop was the potential use of catastrophe modeling in ratemaking, but carrier representatives and consumers took the opportunity to air ...
Will S&P Change ‘Negative’ Reinsurance Outlook to ‘Stable’ in ’23?
While no one directly asked the question of this article's headline at the S&P Global Ratings June annual insurance conference, the prospect that an outlook change is near came into view during ...
CEO Viewpoints: How Carriers, Reinsurers Are Reacting to Inflation
During an industry conference last week, leaders of three property/casualty insurance organizations addressed a question about opportunities in the personal, commercial and reinsurance markets by ...
Why the Investor-Driven Hard Reinsurance Market Will Persist in ’24
Reinsurers will continue to command adequate rates for property-catastrophe in 2024, even if the market comes through hurricane season unscathed, reinsurance company executives said last week. Kevin ...
Regulatory Weaknesses, Politics Driving California Exits, Industry CEOs Say
A trio of property/casualty carrier executives voluntarily offered their views on a growing insurance availability crisis in the state of California at an industry conference in late June, pointing ...
How Lawyers Sank Florida Carriers — and Target ‘Travellers’ With SEO
A troubling phone exchange reveals a problem for insurance carriers that started in Florida and is expanding beyond the state's borders, according to an actuary who recalled the dialogue at a recent ...
ChatGPT and Beyond: How Insurers Are Using AI
If you ask Rachel Alt-Simmons, head of global claims innovation and optimization at AXA XL, what she is most enthusiastic about when she contemplates the world of AI, she'll happily describe the ...