Some Types of Stress Could Be Good for Brain Functioning: Study
While chronic stress can severely damage your health, smaller stressors, such as a looming deadline hanging over your head, may actually be beneficial for your brain, ...
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Industry Trades Respond to FIO’s Proposal to Collect Climate Change Data
Shortly after Treasury's Federal Insurance Office (FIO) proposed to have P/C insurers submit homeowners insurance underwriting data to assess climate risk, the response from industry trade ...
Three Strategic Actions to Win in the Analytics Arms Race
The insurance industry has a challenge to keep ahead of the constantly evolving risk environment. Whether it is the rise of cyber risks, increasing extreme weather events, or the rapid emergence of ...
Reshoring to Generate $30B in Commercial P/C Premiums by 2026: Swiss Re
Swiss Re predicts that deglobalization will generate $33 billion in new commercial property/casualty insurance premiums by 2026, according to its latest sigma report: "Maintaining resilience: the ...
‘Dangerous’ 103 Degree Heat To Hit Chicago 11 Times A Year By 2100: Study
What's considered officially "dangerous heat" in coming decades will likely hit much of the world at least three times more often as climate change worsens, according to a new study. In much of ...
Why Some Firms Beat the Post-IPO Innovation Slump
Researchers from Goethe University, Duke University, and London Business School published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that explains why some companies remain innovative even after they go ...
How to Avoid Ghosting: Move Fast, But Not Too Fast, to Hire
Property/casualty insurance carriers looking to hire talent in 2022 need to move quickly to snap up in-demand professionals, including sought-after claims professionals and underwriters with multiple ...
Successful Women Make the Best Advocates to Help Other Women Move up the Ranks
Female job applicants with recommendations from other, highly tenured women have the strongest chance of getting a job offer, according to new research from the University of California San Diego's ...
Dry Lightning Sparking Costliest California Wildfires: Research
A new study has found dry lightning outbreaks are the leading cause of some of the largest wildfire outbreaks in modern California history. Despite this, dry lightning has remained largely ...