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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
How to Be Strategy-Focused: The Balanced Scorecard Explained
While a transformation is a daunting task for any carrier, American Modern used a tool known as Kaplan and Norton's Balanced Scorecard and Strategy to map out the way ...
What’s Next at American Modern: Conquering Yellowstone
"We don't call it 'digital transformation' because we haunted the organization with 'business transformation.' We needed to find a better word," American Modern CEO ...