Data & Research
Nationwide: Small Business Owners Lack Cyber Prep Plans
Small business owners in the United States are a wide, untapped customer base for property/casualty insurers developing coverage to address the escalating costs of cyber attacks. A recent ...
Aon: Homeowners Insurance Market Improves, Thanks to Rate Increases + Cheaper Reinsurance
The outlook for the U.S. homeowners insurance market has improved over the last year, thanks in part to rate increases and lower reinsurance costs, according to reinsurance intermediary Aon Benfield. ...
Demand for Cyber Coverage Surges: Wells Fargo Study
While the vast majority of corporations surveyed have purchased cyber insurance, and almost half have filed a claim as the result of a breach, there are still gaps in their incident-response plans, a ...
Top 10 Market Conduct Actions Against P/C Insurers: Claims Mgmt. Leads
Slow claim handling, the use of unapproved rates and a failure to provide required compliant disclosures top the list of market conduct actions taken against U.S. property and casualty insurers in ...
Willis, Towers Watson Shore Up Merger Support Ahead of Nov. 18 Vote
Willis Group Holdings and Towers Watson, facing some opposition, are working aggressively to shape stockholder opinions in favor of their proposed merger in advance of a Nov. 18 shareholder vote ...
Guy Carpenter Survey Reveals New Products as Biggest Growth Opportunity in 2016
New products represent the biggest growth opportunity for (re)insurers in the year ahead, according to a new survey from global risk and reinsurance specialist Guy Carpenter & Co. The fourth ...
Novarica: U.S. Small Commercial Insurance Market Slowly Warming to Online Sales
Few carriers in the U.S. small commercial insurance market are relying on direct online sales right now. But the number is growing, and it could become quite large within the next five years, ...
Glassdoor Job Ranking: Which Ones Offer Great Work-Life Balance
The eight-hour day probably seems like a thing of the distant past—that is, unless you have one of the jobs below. According to a new survey from career website Glassdoor, while work-life balance ...