Data & Research
Wireless Sensors to Detect Human Emotions Coming Soon: MIT Researchers
What if your computer or smartphone could tell if you're happy or sad? A new device developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology can detect a person's emotions using wireless ...
Take Part in Our P/C Carrier CEO Succession Planning Survey (DEADLINE EXTENDED)
If your company had to select a chief executive officer successor within the next six months, would that person be someone almost exactly like the current CEO? Is your company developing internal ...
P/C Insurers’ Underwriting Losses Worsened in H1: A.M. Best
Catastrophes, lower favorable loss reserve development and challenging market conditions continued to pressure U.S. property/casualty insurers through the first half of the year, leading to an ...
Becoming an Executive: A Quantitative Look
Would-be executives are always searching for the path to success. Most of the advice they're given is based on qualitative data, says LinkedIn Economist Guy Berger, so he decided to take a ...
Customers Can Be Wary of Innovative Brands
Could having a reputation as an innovative brand actually have a downside? That's the question Kelly Goldsmith, an assistant professor of marketing at the Kellogg School, was looking to answer with a ...
We Could Have a $500M U.S. Drone Insurance Market by 2020
The fledgling drone insurance market could be worth more than $500 million in the U.S. by the end of 2020 and $1 billion globally, assuming growth projections for the technology's commercial use ...
U.S. Commercial Insurance Prices Continue Sluggish Advance: Willis Towers Watson
"Flat" continues to be the norm for U.S. commercial insurance prices as 2016 advances. Prices in aggregate for the sector ticked up by less than 1 percent in the 2016 second quarter, just as they did ...
Top 25 Non-Life Reinsurers: Swiss Re Leads, Berkshire Drops in A.M. Best’s 2016 Ranking
Swiss Re landed on top of a ranking of global non-life reinsurers, just edging out Munich Re by a few hundred million dollars in premium on a list extracted from an A.M. Best analysis. The rating ...