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Insurers Prioritizing Profit Over Growth: Exec Survey
Nearly half of 400 insurance executives responding to a recent survey said their current priorities center on improving profitability rather than growing their businesses. Forty-eight percent of ...
Executive Viewpoint: How to Incorporate AI Into Core Insurance Systems
It is easy to get excited about what artificial intelligence (AI) offers the insurance industry. It has been a bright, shiny object on and off for a few decades now. This ...

California’s Next Steps: Picking the Right Cat Models and Staffing Up
Is $11 million too much to pay for a public catastrophe model? Does the California Department of Insurance have to hire a new contingent of specialists to understand private models, if those are ...
National Security Agency Is Starting an Artificial Intelligence Security Center
The National Security Agency is starting an artificial intelligence security center – a crucial mission as AI capabilities are increasingly acquired, developed and integrated into U.S. defense and ...
Viewpoint: IT Asset Disposition Is Growing Cybersecurity Threat for All Organizations
Cyber risk headlines are dominated by rising ransomware activity and soaring global data breach costs. The increased ransomware activity, driven largely by threat actor ...

50 Shades of Catastrophe Model Vendor Transparency
There are two players in the tug of war that is the implementation of a catastrophe (CAT) model—the user and the vendor. Users require a sophisticated CAT model that pulls together multiple ...
Grid-by-Grid: How One Tech Firm Dissects California Wildfire Risk to Sell Insurance and Reinsurance
There is general consensus among insurance and reinsurance underwriters about the safest property risks to accept in the California market, according to the co-founder of ...

Evacuation Policies and Cat Strips: Wildfire Insurance and Reinsurance Ideas That Failed
Sometimes, it takes a few tries to develop the right insurance or reinsurance product—one that will align well with the needs and wants of customers.
As evidenced by the recent popularity of generative AI tools, the tech landscape in insurance seems to be moving at an increasingly fast pace.
Technology Is Moving Fast; Can Insurers Keep Up?