Data & Research
Researchers Question Privacy of Usage-Based Auto Insurance
A study by a handful of university professors in Colorado claims user-based insurance tracking programs installed in millions of vehicles can collect data that shows where drivers are going, ...
P/C Stock Valuations Not Going Anywhere: Conning Research
While property/casualty insurance stock valuation levels are finally exceeding book values after four years of below-book levels, a near-term return to higher historical valuation levels is unlikely, ...
Moody’s: China’s P/C Insurers to Benefit from Shanghai Free Trade Zone
The new Shanghai free trade zone should benefit property/casualty insurers, particularly those in marine/cargo and liability insurance, according to Moody's Credit Outlook. On Sept. 29, the date that ...
New York Ranks No. 2 Behind Calif. for Questionable Workers Comp Claims
New York is second in the nation, only behind California, for questionable workers compensation insurance claims. New York jumped to second in 2012 from fifth in 2011, the New York Insurance ...
P/C Claims Officers Say Workforce Management Is Primary Challenge
Chief claims officers with leading property/casualty insurers ranked workforce management as their top claim-related challenge, with 76 percent identifying it as a top-three business issue in a new ...
13 Quarters of Premium Growth; Longest Unbroken Rise in Decade
Although the property/casualty insurance industry combined ratio stayed above 100 in the second quarter, much of 4.0-point improvement from last year's 104.8 was attributable to an improving top ...
P/C First-Half Results Improve on Premium Growth, Lower Cats
The only major component of net income moving downward for property/casualty insurers during the first half of 2013 was investment income, according to a compilation of aggregate industry figures ...
Surge in Firms Based in Emerging Markets to Reshape Corporate World: McKinsey
The number of large emerging market companies will surge in coming years and they will become competitors but also customers for rich-country firms, according to a new study. Almost three-quarters of ...