Data & Research
Direct Distribution, Car Technology Advances Transforming Personal Auto Insurance
Technological advances in personal auto insurance distribution and vehicle safety are helping to drive significant transformation of the sector over the coming months and years, Conning said in a new ...
An Early Insured Property Loss Estimate From Hurricane Florence: $3B-$5B
Insured residential and commercial property losses relating to Hurricane Florence are expected to reach $3 billion to $5 billion, according to early estimates from CoreLogic. The number includes wind ...
Global P/C Markets Falling Short on Sustainable Returns: Swiss Re Sigma
Global property/casualty insurance markets are underperforming and have a way to go before producing sustainable returns, Swiss Re said in its latest sigma report. "Most markets remain in a phase of ...
U.S. Commercial Insurance Prices Tick Higher for Third Straight Quarter
Commercial insurance prices for the U.S. ticked up close to 3 percent in the 2018 second quarter, the biggest quarterly increase in nearly four years, Willis Towers Watson said in its recent pricing ...
‘He’s Gaining on Us?’ An ‘Inconceivable’ Quarter of InsurTech Carrier Financials
As we worked on pulling together this third installment of our review of U.S. InsurTech startup financials, we were reminded of the scene from "The Princess Bride" in which a masked man in black ...
Second-Quarter 2018 Financial Details for Lemonade, Root and Metromile
Does Lemonade have shlimazels for customers? Is slower second-quarter growth at Root an indicator that the carrier is deliberately focusing on profitability? Do Ajit Jain and Rob Berkley know ...
Bermuda Insurers, Reinsurers Increasingly Doing Business in the European Union
For Bermuda's global insurance and reinsurance market, European policyholders and businesses are becoming increasingly beneficial partners, according to a new study from the Association of Bermuda ...
Gender Plays a Big Role in Workplace Harassment: Hiscox Survey
More than one-third (35 percent) of employees in the U.S. feel they've experienced workplace harassment, and half of them believe it was due to their gender. A study released by specialty insurer ...