Claims & Reserving
Industry Catastrophe Prep Largely Up to Snuff But More IT Staff Needed
With nearly universal use of catastrophe plan manuals, property/casualty insurers are largely ready to manage catastrophe claims operations, a new benchmarking report says. But like anything else, ...
The Three Metrics That Matter Most for Managing Litigated Claims Costs
Insurers place major importance on measuring the costs for litigated files, according to a new LexisNexis industry survey. A sizable majority of respondents say that metrics such as average case ...
Cyber Insurance Underwriting Advances to its ‘Teen’ Years in Terms of Experience
Given the fact that the insurance industry paid out more than $400 million in highly publicized cyber liability insurance claims in 2014 alone, one might think that insurers would be shying away from ...
U.S., Cuba Begin Hashing Out Billions in Claims Against Each Other
Cuban and U.S. officials on Tuesday will begin to untangle one of the most complex obstacles to normalization of relations between the two countries: the claims of Americans whose property was ...
WCRI Event to Explore ACA Case Shifting to Workers Comp
The Workers Compensation Research Institute is presenting a webinar early next month examining the impacts of the Affordable Care Act on the workers compensation line. Although pundits have written ...
Nine Straight Years for P/C Reserves Releases: Fitch
Property/casualty insurers continued to take down loss reserves for prior years in 2014, which marked the ninth straight calendar year of favorable development for the industry in aggregate, ...
For-Profit College Operator Must Pay $95.5M to Settle Recruitment Violation Suit
Education Management Corp., an operator of for-profit colleges, agreed to settle a whistle-blower lawsuit for $95.5 million. The accord was announced Monday by the U.S. Justice and Education ...
This Season’s El Niño Will be Among the Strongest Ever Recorded
The current El Niño weather pattern, a phenomenon associated with extreme droughts, storms and floods, is expected to strengthen before the end of the year and become one of the strongest on record, ...