CFO / Financial
InsurTech Summit Preview: Post-Pandemic InsurTech Usage Is at a ‘Leap Forward Moment’
Property/casualty insurers have talked for years about the need to modernize and embrace technology in order to serve their customers better. COVID-19 came along and rapidly quickened the process, ...
Recapping 2020’s Insurance Numbers and What They Mean for 2021
The most recent tallies of financial results by rating agency analysts reveal that the property/casualty insurance industry weathered the storms of catastrophe losses and COVID, with one segment ...
Shareholder Class Action Complaint Filed Against InsurTech Root
With shares of Root Inc. trading at less than 50 percent of the late October 2020 IPO price of $27 per share, the InsurTech carrier has been named in a shareholders class action complaint, multiple ...
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 ...
Chubb Is Reportedly Exploring Hartford Acquisition
Chubb Ltd., the global insurer led by Evan Greenberg, is exploring an acquisition of Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. in what could be one of the industry's biggest deals in years, people ...
Industry Loss Reserves Redundant by $28B: Assured Research
Analysts at Assured Research delivered some surprises in a report on property/casualty insurance industry loss reserves Monday, finding that reserves are $28 billion redundant and predicting that ...
Assessing Delegated Underwriting Authorities, MGAs: AM Best Explains
Over the last decade, as insurers and reinsurers have sought profitable opportunities for growth, they increasingly have handed the underwriting pen to managing general agents, managing general ...
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 ...