Saying Goodbye to 2023: When Will California’s Insurance Crisis End?
"Sorry, America,
Your Insurance
Has Been Canceled"
The words were ...
Underwriting
Myth vs. Reality: Is Telematics Really Making Commercial Drivers Safer?
In today's fast-paced world, the role of technology in the realm of commercial driving cannot be understated. Telematics has become a powerful tool in the quest for safer ...
Prepare for the Soft Market: Why You Need to Set Performance Metrics Now
On the face of it, it appears to be a good time to be an underwriter. A combination of historic underperformance, an elevated risk outlook and investor reticence is encouraging underwriters to push ...
Some Buyers Wait Months for Cyber Policies With Coverage Gaps
According to privileged access management Delinea's report, Closing the Cyber Insurance Gap - 2023 State of Cyber Insurance, a significant gap is emerging between insurance carriers and organizations ...
Florida Market Improving: Less Red Ink Spilling on Bottom Lines
Florida-based insurers still aren't profitable, overall, but their net losses and underwriting losses are getting smaller. In addition, two more property insurance companies are preparing to enter ...
How a Regional Carrier Protects Against a $60B California Cat Event
While two dozen interested parties spoke at a recent California Department of Insurance workshop on the use of catastrophe modeling in pricing, offering predictable messages supporting carrier, ...
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 ...
Hail, Convective Storms, Population Now Driving Billions in Losses — Is the Industry Prepared?
Hurricanes in the East. Wildfires in the West. Those are the big disasters that grab the headlines and are driving property insurance costs and cancellations, to a large ...
Viewpoint: Get Ready Now for the Soft Market (Because It’s Coming)
While discussing soft market underwriting may seem ill-timed given current strong results and hard market conditions, there are worrying signs that underwriters are beginning to chase market share in ...