Data & Research
What Investor Activism Means for Insurers—Those Under Attack and Those That Aren’t
Carl Icahn's demands for American International Group to split into three different companies may seem over the top to some. More importantly for the P/C market at large, however, is that the hedge ...
Auto Liability Will Buck Price Declines, and Other Marsh 2016 Predictions
Pricing may be plunging across much of the U.S. casualty market in 2016, but not for auto liability. Higher pricing and reduced capacity will likely hit automotive liability over the next year, ...
Fed Could Clear Up SIFI Uncertainty This Year
The designation of MetLife as a systemically important financial institution by the Financial Stability Oversight Council is a done deal. But exactly what that means in terms of higher regulatory ...
P/C Execs Predict Cyber Growth and a Democrat in the White House
Leaders of the property/casualty insurance industry expect 2016 to be a profitable year much like 2015 but do not see any increase in profitability this year for most lines of insurance, and they do ...
A.M. Best Separates Ratings Services from Publications in Restructuring Move
A.M. Best has restructured its operations to separate its rating and research services from its publications and other information products, attributing the action to increased regulation of credit ...
Crash Rates Lower for Driverless Cars
Crash rates for self-driving cars are lower than the national crash rate of conventional cars, according to a new report out of Virginia Tech Transportation Institute that was commissioned by ...
Why Some Consumers Prefer Their Brands as Servants, Not Partners
Marketers have long known that consumers react in a favorable way when products and services are given human attributes, or anthropomorphized, in their branding and advertising. Think of the Michelin ...
Google Chairman Says Standards Needed to Unlock Promise of Artificial Intelligence
Google's chairman thinks artificial intelligence will let scientists solve some of the world's "hard problems," like population growth, climate change, human development, and education. Rapid ...