Data & Research
Another ‘Team Project’? Snap Judgments, Leader Expectations Impact Results
Hearing the words "team project" can spark fear in the hearts of business professionals. Does this initial negative perception mean that the project is doomed from the start? Dustin Sleesman, ...
Flying Cars Have Small Niche Role in Sustainable Mobility: Research
In the 1960s animated sitcom The Jetsons, George Jetson commutes to work in his family-size flying car, which miraculously transforms into a briefcase at the end of the trip. A new study of the ...
Expect $2-$3B In Annual Industry Losses From Japan Quakes: KCC
For insurers and reinsurers, the 1995 Kobe earthquake produced $3 billion in insured property losses, but a repeat of a more devastating quake that happened 72 years earlier could bring $225 billion ...
Carriers Experienced Costliest Two-Year Period Ever for Cat Losses: Aon
Global insured losses stemming from major wildfires, tropical cyclones and severe thunderstorms reached $90 billion in 2018, close to 50 percent higher than the annual average between 2000 and 2017, ...
Progressive Corp. Tops Commercial Auto Charts; Others Still Ailing: Fitch
The commercial automobile insurance segment is headed for its ninth straight year of underwriting losses when the books close at year-end 2019, analysts at Fitch Ratings predict in a new report. In ...
Luxury Electric Cars More Likely to Cause Accidents Than Standard Engine Counterparts: AXA Research
Electric luxury cars and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) may be 40% more likely to cause accidents than their standard engine counterparts, possibly because drivers are still getting used to their ...
Speeding Is Riskiest of all Bad Driving Behaviors: Research
Speeding is the riskiest kind of aggressive driving, according to an analysis of data from on-board telematics devices in vehicles. Researchers at Canada's University of Waterloo examined data from ...
P/C Insurers Can Benefit From Increasingly Sophisticated Data Analytics Technology
There has never been a better time for P/C insurers to use data analytics as a tool to expand their underwriting reach into new markets and risk classes, Swiss Re said in its latest sigma report. The ...