Data & Research
Employees Need to Feel Safe When They Return to the Workplace: Mercer
With the U.S. making some progress in "flattening the curve" of COVID-19, it's time for employers to plan their return to the workplace. The most critical step: ensuring employees feel safe coming ...
NCCI: Modest COVID-19 Infection Rates Will Still Be Costly
If only 10 percent of health care workers contract COVID-19 and all of their claims are deemed compensable, workers' compensation loss costs for that sector could double or even triple in some ...
Industry Needs to Reinvent Itself to Stay Relevant: McKinsey
The insurance industry has proven its resilience in recent years, weathering billion-dollar natural catastrophe events, increased cyber risk and now a pandemic, but this resilience will be tested ...
Worst-Case P/C Coronavirus Losses in Key Lines Could Hit $80B: Willis Towers Watson
Key property/casualty insurance lines could face COVID-19 insured losses reaching a combined $80 billion in a worst-case scenario modeled by Willis Towers Watson as part of a new report. U.S. and ...
Lack of Clarity on Infection, Fatality Rates Hinders Ability to Assess COVID-19 Impact: KCC
With social distancing and strict lockdowns around the world showing some success in "flattening the curve" of the coronavirus pandemic, leaders are starting to make tough decisions regarding when ...
Venture Funding Drop Leaves Digital Insurers Vulnerable to Takeover
Some digital insurers will be in serious jeopardy as standalone companies in the months ahead, thanks in part to a big coronavirus crisis-related drop in venture funding. That reality, in turn, could ...
U.S. Small Businesses See Big Increase in Phishing Emails: Munich Re/HSB Survey
U.S. small businesses have experienced a worsening cyber vulnerability over the last year: Suspicious emails seeking money. Nearly 60 percent of business executives polled in a new survey from Munich ...
Analysts Tally Workers Comp Cost of Assuming On-The-Job Exposure to COVID-19
While the potential cost of relaxing a tenet of the workers compensation system to deal with extraordinary circumstances of COVID-19 could top $50 billion, it's more likely to be one-fifth of that, ...