Underwriting
Who Gets Credit for Successful Renewal During Soft Re Market?
One theme that has come up repeatedly in conversations with reinsurance brokers recently is that achieving a good renewal outcome is no longer always enough to demonstrate value. That would have ...
Why Multifamily Owners’ Safety Investments Aren’t Showing Up in Their Premiums
Multifamily owners have spent the last several years pouring capital into resilience, in the form of hardened roofs, backup power and fortified building envelopes, to name a few. The logic is sound. ...
Bring It On: AI Strategy Sways Underwriter Choices of Employers
In the not-too-distant past, property/casualty insurance underwriters worried about AI tools taking over their jobs. Now, according to a recent survey, nearly three-quarters say they're opting for ...
AI Pushes Underwriting Beyond Risk Selection to Prevention
Artificial intelligence may touch nearly every function of property and casualty insurance, but insurance executives say the technology's greatest value so far is in changing how underwriters ...
Viewpoint: Boom in Hyperscale Data Centers Puts Insurers to the Test
Hyperscale data center campuses represent the latest growth opportunity for global insurers and reinsurers. Annual investment in these specialized facilities will likely surpass $300 billion by 2027, ...
The Price of Loyalty: How Higher Premiums Are Reshaping Carrier Retention
The homeowners insurance industry has stuck pretty closely to the status quo when it comes to customer relationships for decades now. That's because many policyholders have remained with the same ...
What Happens to Property Pricing in ’27, Insurance, Reinsurance Execs Ask
Insurance and reinsurance executives speaking at a recent industry conference said there were few surprises during midyear 2026 reinsurance renewals—with past overreactions on price hikes ...
How to Improve Small Commercial Property Underwriting
Severe weather volatility and rising loss severity are placing sustained pressure on the small commercial property insurance landscape. Weather-related events now account for more than 65% of U.S. ...