Data & Research
Small Biz Customers Rank Nationwide As Top Insurer; Travelers, Hartford Lag
Nationwide Insurance came up on top of J.D. Power's 2018 customer ranking of small commercial insurers, vaulting up from the middle of the carrier pack in 2017, while overall satisfaction scores for ...
Insurance Premiums From InsurTech to Exceed $400B by 2023
Insurance premiums generated by emerging InsurTech services will exceed $400 billion by 2023, up from an estimated $187 billion in 2018, according to a new study from U.K.-based Juniper Research. The ...
Indiana University Research Reveals Problems of Fewer Financial Reports
President Donald Trump on Friday indicated that he has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to review changing its reporting requirements, away from quarterly reports to semi-annual reports. ...
Insurers’ H1 Featured Spike in Downgrades, But Upgrades Still Came Out on Top: A.M. Best
Catastrophic weather events in 2017 helped spur an increase in rating downgrades for the U.S. property/casualty industry during the first half of 2018, according to an A.M. Best report. But the ...
Usage-Based Insurance Provides Strong Benefits to Insurers, But Consumer Adoption Remains Low
Usage-based insurance (UBI) availability continues to grow for auto insurance customers, but customer adoption rates remain sluggish. According to the J.D. Power 2018 U.S. Auto Insurance Study, 42 ...
Global Insured Catastrophe Losses Improve in H1: Swiss Re
Global insured losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters during the first half of 2018 were $20 billion, down from $30 billion in H1 2017, according to Swiss Re Institute's latest sigma ...
Execs See AI as Reshaping Finance But Disagree on What It Is
Global financial leaders are convinced artificial intelligence is poised to reshape their industry, and they're ready to invest big. They just can't agree on what it is. The World Economic Forum ...
Reinsurers Come to Terms With Alternative Capital: Standard & Poor’s
Rather than fear the ever-increasing availability of alternative capital, reinsurers aren't just making the best of it. They're taking advantage of the money source and aligning it with their own ...