Data & Research
Specialty, Niche Business Lines Are 2018’s Insurance M&A Targets: Conning
Targeted P/C insurance mergers and acquisitions should continue in 2018 after they slowed down to a trickle last year, Conning said in a new report. The predicted M&A behavior for the rest of ...
U.S. P/C Insurers Stand to Gain From New Tax Law: Moody’s
The impact of the new U.S. tax law is credit positive for U.S.-based insurance companies and will boost profitability for many of these firms, particularly those that have been paying high effective ...
Cold Weather, Winter Storms Created Feb/March Damage and Turmoil: Aon Benfield
Severe cold weather and a winter storm that affected large parts of Europe during the second half of February and early March caused business interruption and other damages surpassing hundreds of ...
Ransomware Attacks, Cloud Outages Among Top Concerns for Cyber Insurers: Aon Benfield
The rate of cyber extortion incidents continued to increase during the fourth quarter of 2017. In fact, despite a significant lag in reporting time, the total number of cyber extortion events ...
Commercial Insurance Prices Nudged Higher in Q4: Marsh
The historic cluster of natural catastrophes that struck in late 2017 helped nudge average global commercial insurance pricing higher during the fourth quarter—the first increase since early 2013, ...
2018 Insurance M&A Drivers: Tax Reform, InsurTech and Run-Offs
Tax reform, InsurTech and run-off transactions will be among the big drivers of insurance industry mergers and acquisitions in 2018, according to a new Deloitte report. Deloitte said that the Trump ...
General Liability Erupts as New Casualty Insurance Problem, Plus 9 Other Marsh Market Predictions
Automobile liability has been the problem child for casualty insurers for years, but general liability is becoming the next trouble spot, Marsh asserts in a new report looking at the top 10 U.S. ...
Mobile Broadband Access and Auto Collision Frequency Uncorrelated, Actuaries Find
Mobile broadband access—used as an indicator of the likelihood that drivers may be using mobile devices while driving—appears to have no impact on collision frequency, according to a recent ...