Underwriting
Commercial Insurance Rates Up 5% for 3d Month: MarketScout
The average composite rate for commercial property/casualty insurance in the U.S. was up five percent for May 2013. This marks the third month in a row for a five percent increase, according to ...
Trillions Of Dollars At Risk In Coastal States: AIR Worldwide, CoreLogic
In separate reports released earlier this week, AIR Worldwide and CoreLogic estimated insured property values in coastal areas of the United States reaching into the trillions of dollars. CoreLogic, ...
Encryption: What’s The Big Secret?
So your organization sells a data breach or cyber liability insurance product that covers notification costs and ancillary services in the event your insured has a data breach and their customer's ...Facultative Reinsurance Spending Down: Faber Global
Several large UK cedants are reducing their spending on facultative reinsurance, according to the view taken by Vanessa Macdonald-Smith, team leader at facultative reinsurance broker, Faber Global, a ...
European vs. U.S. Hurricane Models: Which Is Better?
When forecasters from the National Weather Service track a hurricane, they use models from several different supercomputers located around the world to create their predictions. Some of those models ...
EQECAT To Share Exposure Data Standard With RMS
Catastrophe modeling firm EQECAT announced that it has finalized an agreement to share exposure data schemas with another major catastrophe-modeling firm, Risk Management Solutions (RMS). The ...
New Tool to Shed Light on Costs of Blackouts
Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) and The Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER). (HSB) have formed an alliance to provide a product that assesses blackout risk in the United States. ...
AIG to Form Agency Distribution Channel with People’s Insurance Co. of China
American International Group Inc., People's Insurance Company of China (PICC) and PICC Life Insurance Co. Limited (PICC Life) said that they have entered into a joint venture agreement to form an ...