Data & Research
Self-Fulfilling Rankings Boost Rating Agency Power: Researcher
Agencies that rate and rank nations, corporations and colleges wield enormous power, influencing investment flows and prompting leaders to pursue policies that might improve their standing. But the ...
Climate Change Is Hurting Insurance Industry: Report
Climate change is hurting the insurance industry, and only 8 percent of insurers are preparing adequately for its impact, consultants Capgemini and financial industry body Efma said in a report on ...
Reserves and Inflation: Insurers Got This!
According to an analysis of loss reserves published in mid-March by Assured Research, 2021 marked the 16th straight year that the U.S. P/C industry's loss reserves developed favorably—by about ...
Study Links Cleaner Air to More Atlantic Hurricanes
Cleaner air in the United States and Europe is brewing more Atlantic hurricanes, a new U.S. government study found. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study links changes in ...
InsurTech Funding Levels Come Crashing Down in Q1: CB Insights
Funding for the InsurTech sector plummeted 58 percent in the first quarter of 2022 compared to fourth-quarter 2021, according to data released by CB Insights Tuesday. The total funding amount of $2.2 ...
Workers Reporting Injuries Earlier in Tenure, Carrier Study Reveals
An insurer's study of a decade of workers compensation claims reveals that injury reports in 2021 came from employees who hadn't been on the job as long as those who reported claims in 2011. On ...
A Bad Mix: Narcissistic CEOs and Crisis
Research from Michigan State University and the Ohio State University reveals how CEO narcissism during a crisis can influence the behavior of middle managers, which may have implications for the ...
How Insurance CIOs Can Orchestrate Business-Wide Transformation
The pandemic has been a wake-up call for insurers. In an industry that has traditionally lagged in digital deployments, the savviest players are reassessing their own infrastructures to reevaluate if ...