Underwriting
Sirius Plans to Access Public Markets Though Easterly M&A Deal
Sirius International Insurance Group is hitting the public markets in a bid to raise capital, pursue acquisitions and grow. "Access to the public equity markets will facilitate and accelerate our ...
Corporate Britain Warns: Slow Brexit Negotiations Place Thousands of UK Jobs at Risk
Prime Minister Theresa May faces a new onslaught over her Brexit plans from corporate Britain, after the U.K.'s five main business lobbies urged her to make progress in the negotiations or risk ...
Saudi Insurance Stocks See Huge Gains With End of Female Driver Ban
Saudi insurers posted significant gains on Sunday, on hopes that insurance volumes will rise as women began driving in Saudi Arabia, in the end of the world's last ban on female drivers. This lifted ...
The Good and the Bad at Lemonade: Latest Chronicles
In a blog item titled "We suck, sometimes," a co-founder of Lemonade, the insurer powered by behavioral economics and artificial intelligence, revealed a recent 1,000 percent growth spurt but ...
Pathway to Safety: Actuarial Analysis
Recently, the Casualty Actuarial Society's Automated Vehicles Task Force (CAS AVTF) published a research report on its website: "Automated Vehicles and the Insurance Industry: A Pathway to Safety: ...
Actuarial Analysis of Automated Vehicles: How Much Premium Discount Is Justified?
The advent of automated vehicles (AVs) has been variously described as a cultural watershed moment that will change society in deep and meaningful ways, or as an overhyped flavor of the day—and ...
WCIRB: Calif. Workers Comp Written Premium to Be Down Again This Year
Lower workers compensation rates in California will bring down written premium once again this year, according to a forecast from the Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. That revelation is ...
Lessons From the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season: Open Models, Real-Time Tracking Are Valuable Tools
Open models and tools to track hurricanes in real time can help boost modeling accuracy and aid the claims process after storms, according to a new Karen Clark & Co. analysis of the 2017 Atlantic ...