Underwriting
Universal Fire & Casualty Starts Accepting Cryptocurrency for Premium Payments
Universal Fire & Casualty Insurance Company has started accepting cryptocurrency for premium payments. The reason why: to increase its competitive market position as part of a broader innovation ...
Europe’s Insurers Emerge From Pandemic With Strong M&A Appetite: Moody’s
Europe's insurance industry is emerging from the coronavirus crisis with a stronger appetite for mergers and acquisitions, along with expectations for strong earnings growth in 2021, according to ...
MGA Honeycomb Launches With Bet on Multi-Family Property Insurance
An InsurTech MGA with a focus on multi-family property insurance has raised $3.3 million in initial venture capital insurance and formerly launched in North America. Honeycomb, formerly Agilius, drew ...
Can 3D Printing Solve U.S. Housing Shortage?
A new generation of startups wants to disrupt the way houses are built by automating production with industrial 3D printers. 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, uses machines to ...
Hello Future. How Carriers and Reinsurers Are Facing Tomorrow
Welcome to Carrier Management's 2021 Midyear Update—What's Next? The young woman on the cover of Carrier Management's summer digital magazine edition looks relaxed and eager to embrace the future. ...
Cyber Underwriting Changes: Is It Too Little, Too Late?
With primary rate changes approaching 50 percent and underwriting questions about network controls becoming more and more detailed, cyber insurers and reinsurers are reacting to an onslaught of ...
The Ransomware Epidemic by the Numbers
During a session of the Casualty Actuarial Society Seminar on Reinsurance in June, Alexander Podmore, AVP and cyber underwriter for Swiss Re, defined a growing problem for cyber ...
Systemic Risk Analysis: Are Cyber Insurers Whistling Past the Graveyard?
While ransomware was the hot topic at 2021 midyear insurance industry conferences, discussions of the broader topic of systemic risk—spurred on by recent hacks of SolarWinds and Microsoft ...