Data & Research
A 106.5 Combined Ratio for Allstate’s Esurance Is Good News
A combined ratio of 106.5 would be a sign of trouble for almost any property/casualty insurer. For Allstate's Esurance, the number is good news. Esurance, an online auto and home insurance provider, ...
Liberty Mutual Loses WC Market Share, but Travelers Remains on Top: A.M. Best
Liberty Mutual Insurance's U.S. workers compensation net premiums written for 2014 dropped a whopping 27.5 percent compared to the previous year. The decline was enough to knock it from second to ...
KPMG: Driverless Cars Could Drastically Reduce U.S. Personal Auto Insurance Sector
The U.S. personal auto insurance sector could shrink by 60 percent within 25 years as autonomous vehicles catch on, vehicles become safer and both trends reduce the number of accidents, KPMG said in ...
U.S. Property/Casualty Net Income Grew Steadily in 2015 First Half
Thanks to a relatively quiet tornado season and slow start to the U.S. hurricane season, there's good news to report concerning property/casualty insurers' net income during the first half of 2015. ...
Republican Auto Safety Proposals Draw Warning from U.S. Regulators
Republican proposals to improve U.S. auto safety came under fire on Tuesday from federal regulators, who warned that proposed changes to current rules would erode consumer safety and give automakers ...
Buffett Doesn’t Cut It: What Kept Him Off HBR’s Top CEO Ranking
When Harvard Business Review put together its 2015 list of chief executive elites—the world's best performing CEOs—Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett failed to make the cut. While Buffett ...
Ethics and Driverless Cars: Stanford Professor Working Through the Issues
It's nothing more than a dune buggy on a cordoned-off street but it's headed for trouble. A jumble of sawhorses and traffic' cones simulates a road crew working over a manhole and the driverless car ...
Few Small Businesses OK With Weed at Work
Small businesses aren't worried that employees might come to work a little stoned, but inhaling on the job is definitely frowned upon by most small business owners, a survey by a workers compensation ...