Underwriting
Results Too Good? Swiss Re Boosts Reserves ~$1B Amid Surprises
Lower than expected catastrophe losses in the second quarter helped fuel nearly $1 billion in net profit for Swiss Re during the period, and a 16 percent jump in profit to $2.1 billion for the first ...
Bad Cops No More: Friendlier Auto Insurers Needed for Telematics Future
Radical changes in marketing and product design of auto insurance policies will help unlock customer benefits of sharing driving data, a well-known insurance telematics evangelist advised during a ...
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Has Driving Behavior Changed?
If you're feeling less safe driving on the nation's roads than you used to, it's not your imagination, according to Gary Hallgren, president of Arity, a B2B mobility data and analytics company owned ...
Executive Viewpoint: Reason Over Rhetoric
Some environmental activists have turned to demanding insurers immediately stop underwriting and investing in fossil fuel projects, believing this will help solve climate change. This is once again ...
Where Commercial Lines Renewal Rate Changes Landed: July Index
Year over year, commercial auto, business owners, general liability, commercial property and umbrella experienced increasing average premium renewal rates, according to the latest monthly Ivans Index ...
Are Captives the Answer for Uninsured HOAs? Utah Opens Door
When actuary Greg Fears attended a Western Region Captive Insurance Conference in April, he expected to learn and share information about emerging uses of captives for commercial risks, including ...
How to Outperform: Don’t Outsource Underwriting; Manage Cycles
Executives of two property/casualty insurance organizations—Kinsale Insurance and the U.S. P/C operations of Arch Capital—shared their recipes for success with an analyst who crowned their ...
Judgment Day
In May 2022, a judge at the U.S. District Court in Texas ruled that IBM had breached a 2015 licensing agreement signed with a competitor, BMC Software Inc., awarding BMC more than $1.6 billion in ...