Content from Susanne Sclafane
Where Carriers Are Spending: The Investments Driving Underwriting Change
Although nearly two-thirds of underwriting professionals surveyed in 2021 said that AI and automation tools aren't easing their workloads—and 28 percent said their workloads have ...
Berkley Cooling On Professional Lines, Firing Up Property Cat Re Engines
Property cat reinsurance: "More." Professional liability insurance: Not so much. The president and chief executive officer of W.R. Berkley Corp., Robert Berkley, Jr., shared his company's appetite ...
Underwrite or Autowrite? How Machines Help (or Hurt) the Underwriting Profession
The person who invented autocorrect should burn in hello. We've probably all seen some form of this joke and thought about a situation where a word we wanted to type was replaced by one we definitely ...
Breaking Down Inflation’s $30B Impact on Insurers Line By Line
Experts at McKinsey & Company estimate that inflation pushed loss costs for property/casualty insurers up roughly $30 billion last year, with nearly three-quarters of that figure coming through ...
Tractable’s Next Move: AI Property Claims Assessment Before Damage Photos
Tractable, an InsurTech that revs up auto claims assessment processes using artificial intelligence that's trained on photos of dented cars, is now teaching machines to handle property disaster ...
How AI Estimating Helps Auto Insurers in Inflationary Times
According to Jimmy Spears, head of automotive at InsurTech Tractable, "Speed is everything" in auto claims adjusting. "Nothing gets cheaper over time," he said during a recent interview, addressing a ...
How to Avoid Ghosting: Move Fast, But Not Too Fast, to Hire
Property/casualty insurance carriers looking to hire talent in 2022 need to move quickly to snap up in-demand professionals, including sought-after claims professionals and underwriters with multiple ...
Vendor Cat Models Not Capturing Climate Change Impact: RenRe CEO
During a quarterly earnings call, the leader of RenaissanceRe discussed drivers of company's third straight double-digit operating ROE result, its resilience to inflation and recession risk, and also ...