Data & Research
More Bad News for Reinsurers: Underperforming Stocks
Stocks for 20 publicly traded reinsurance companies performed far worse than the overall market for the first nine months of 2014, according to an equity trend analysis from A.M. Best. The analysis ...
Novarica: Large P/C Companies Widen Lead in Advanced Technology Race
Large property/casualty insurers are widening their lead over small- and medium-sized competitors in the race to add advanced technologies into daily work, Novarica concluded in a new report. ...
‘Bot’ Fraud Costing Digital Advertisers $6B: Research Report
Almost one-fourth of video ads and 11 percent of display ads are viewed by fake consumers created by cyber crime networks seeking to take a chunk of the billions of dollars spent on digital ...
Allianz: New Materials, Lawsuits Driving Up Aviation Claims Costs
Even as aviation becomes safer overall, everything from new materials in plain design to more lawsuits is driving up the cost of claims, Allianz concluded in a new study. Details can be found in the ...
Commercial Insureds More Satisfied with Brokers than Insurers
Although ACE, FM Global and The Hartford got high marks from risk managers of businesses buying commercial insurance coverage, collectively insurance brokers ranked higher than carriers in a buyers' ...
Cyber Security a Challenge for Insurers: A.M. Best
Thirteen percent of respondents to A.M. Best's Fall 2014 Insurance Industry Survey admitted that their companies had been the targets of data breaches or cyber attacks. Larger companies appear much ...
HR Issues Can Overwhelm CEOs of Small, Midsize Businesses: Survey
CEOs of small and midsize businesses spend a significant amount of time dealing with human resources issues, according to a new survey from HR solutions provider TriNet. Respondents to the company's ...
Zurich, Hiscox See Market Spikes in Healthcare Provider Liability Costs and Numbers
Healthcare providers must deal with increasingly severe malpractice or liability claims, and corresponding reality that the number of these cases continues to rise, two new property/casualty ...