Content from Susanne Sclafane
Progressive ‘Crushing It’ on Profit: Berkshire’s Jain and Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway Chair Warren Buffett and Vice Chair Ajit Jain admit that GEICO ranks behind Progressive in its ability "match rate to risk," but both competitors will soon surpass State Farm and ...
Feds Could Step in to Fix Racial Bias in Insurance Pricing
If the National Association of Insurance Commissioners doesn't act this year to correct systemic racial bias in insurance ratemaking and other processes, Congress may pass anti-discrimination laws ...
Race as a Control Variable
One way to minimize proxy discrimination in multivariate pricing models is to introduce a "control variable" representing a protected class to the analysis. Birny Birnbaum explained the approach ...
Betting On Founders: How VCs Spot InsurTech Unicorns of 2025
Carrier vs. MGA. U.S. vs EU. Specialty niche vs. traditional insurance lines. There are many things that distinguish one InsurTech from the next, including financial metrics like internal rates of ...
As MGA Growth Explodes, AM Best Unveils New Assessments Coming Soon
With the volume of premium generated by managing general agents and other delegated underwriting authority enterprises (DUAEs) rocketing skyward in recent years, AM Best had decided it's time to ...
Progressive’s ‘Apron Relief’ Continues; Snapshot 30-Day Monitoring Available
While Progressive gave back more than $1 billion of premiums last year, and lowered rates in recognition pandemic-related reductions in driving activity, the insurer is offering more potential ...
Insurance Industry Adds Nearly 20K Jobs During Pandemic
Levels of employment for the insurance industry are "holding up much stronger than the overall economy," the leader of an insurance search firm said recently, reporting that insurers have added ...
Workers Comp and COVID: More Data on Evolving Claims
Workers compensation insurers aren't getting the large aggregate volumes of COVID-related claims projected during the early months of the pandemic, but different data sources give varying readouts on ...