Claims / Legal
Sharpening the Industry’s Most Overlooked Skill
What is causing increasing claims severity trends, and how should insurance carriers attack the problem? The questions have been asked many times over the past few years. Almost without exception, ...
Insurers Fighting $345M Georgia School Abuse Award, With Policy Wording at Issue
In one of the grimmest, longest-running and most-litigated episodes of alleged child sexual abuse at a private school, the key question in a case now before the Georgia Court of Appeals is whether ...
Inflation Hits Med Mal: Actuaries Estimate $4B for Economic + Social
An actuarial report published earlier this month put a $4 billion estimate on inflation's effect on medical malpractice insurance losses over the last decade, without gauging the separate impacts of ...
Firings After Comments on Kirk’s Death Raises Questions on Worker vs. Employer Rights
In the days following the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, numerous workers have been fired for their comments on his death, among them MSNBC political analyst Matthew Dowd. ...
The Year So Far: Liberty Improves Most Among Nationals; Discipline Tested
A Carrier Management summary of earnings metrics for the year so far reveals a second-quarter average combined ratio of roughly 88, and a year-to-date ratio of just under 92 for a cohort of 27 ...
When Luck Runs Out: Where $100B Hurricanes Might Happen
Lists published every hurricane season, adjusting the amounts of insurance losses for past events for inflation to current-dollar levels, give a misleading picture of the potential for a single event ...
AI for Policy and Claims: Should Insurers Build or Buy?
More insurers are dipping their toes into the AI pool. In fact, 57 percent of insurance organizations think AI will be the most important technology over the next three years. But a lot of that ...
Gunmaker’s Instagram Posts Don’t Create Uvalde Shooting Liability: Meta Lawyers
A lawsuit filed by families of the Uvalde school shooting victims alleging Instagram allowed gun manufacturers to promote firearms to minors should be thrown out, lawyers for Meta, Instagram's parent ...