Data & Research
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 ...
Insurers Face $4.7B Bill for Summer Hail Storms in France, Germany
Insurers nursing hefty losses from severe spring floods in Europe face paying out a similar amount again after areas of Germany and France were repeatedly pounded by grapefruit-sized hail stones over ...
CFO Pay Change Lags CEOs’ for Non-Bank Financial Services Firms: BDO Analysis
Chief financial officers of non-bank financial services firms saw lower percentage increases in compensation than chief executives in 2012, although the pay hikes for both C-suite positions were ...
Forecasters Humbled, Insurers Relieved by Quiet Atlantic Hurricane Season
The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season is humbling forecasters by shaping up as the first in almost two decades without a major storm, confounding predictions that it would be more active than normal. ...