Underwriting
The Future of P/C Underwriting: Shifting From Innovation to Operational Efficiency
With rising inflation and the prospects of a recession on the horizon, the present macroeconomic environment is forcing property/casualty underwriters to adapt to new technologies and sources of ...
Viewpoint: How Progressive’s Relationship With ‘The Robinsons’ Could Be at Risk
Progressive offered a rare look inside its strategic playbook in a recent second-quarter earnings report. Describing the firm's market share in key customer segments, the report highlighted one group ...
Viewpoint: Hurricane Ian, Anti-Concurrent Loss Language and Ambiguities
On Sept. 28, 2022, the nearly Category 5 Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwest Florida with maximum sustained winds clocked at approximately 150 MPH. Reports out of Lee County, Fla., have been ...
Underwrite or Autowrite? How Machines Help (or Hurt) the Underwriting Profession
The person who invented autocorrect should burn in hello. We've probably all seen some form of this joke and thought about a situation where a word we wanted to type was replaced by one we definitely ...
Travelers, Google Cloud to Build Data System to Underwrite Commercial Risk
Google Cloud and The Travelers Companies said they are working together to create a cloud-based data ecosystem that will help Travelers' underwriters more efficiently evaluate risks for large and ...
Auto Loss Costs Not Coming Down; Bigger Rate Hikes Ahead: Allstate CEO
Higher auto loss costs are here to stay, according to the leader of Allstate, who also said that his company will be pushing up auto insurance prices higher, and at a faster pace, for the balance of ...
Underwriting No Longer Sole Path to Profit, Say Berkley Execs
While the days of cash flow underwriting are a distant memory for veteran insurance executives, the need for industry's more recent "preoccupation" with underwriting profit is starting to subside, ...
State Farm Invests $1.2B in ADT; Adopts ‘Predict and Prevent’ Mindset
State Farm and ADT, a smart home provider, announced that State Farm will make a $1.2 billion equity investment in ADT, a move that will give the nation's largest insurer a 15 percent ownership stake ...