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Personal Property Premium Growth Outpacing Commercial: Finaccord Survey
The global property insurance market reached $360.5 billion in gross written premiums as of the end of 2014, according to a new Finaccord survey. And personal property premiums are outpacing ...
Surprise: Narcissists No More Likely To Be Risk Takers Than Others
Maybe narcissists aren't always such big risk-takers after all, a new study suggests. Many studies have found that narcissists often make volatile and risky decisions, possibly because they tend to ...
California Wildfire Insured Losses Surpass $1B: Impact Forecasting
With a month to go for the peak California wildfire season, insured losses already surpassed $1 billion in September - the costliest and most damaging for the U.S. in eight years, according to Impact ...
A.M. Best: Half-Year Results Hint at Year Three of Underwriting Profits
The property/casualty insurance industry is likely to post a third consecutive year of underwriting profits, considering its performance in the first half of the year and barring any late year ...
Cyber Attacks Increase, but Boards and Businesses Are Fighting Back
A majority of businesses admit that they experienced at least one cyber attack in the last year; companies also increasingly see these risks as a major threat to their operations. Faced with these ...
Auto Injury Claims Costs Keep Rising Even With Safer Vehicles: IRC
Auto injury claims costs are still increasing in the United States, even though better vehicle safety has helped reduce claims frequency, the Insurance Research Council found in a new report. The ...
Shareholder Return Metric in Exec Pay Plan Won’t Boost Results: Research
An analysis of S&P 500 company data over a decade reveals that embedding total shareholder return (TSR) as a performance metric into executive compensation plans may not be the blanket solution ...
Slowly But Surely, Insurers are Turning to Mobile and Big Data
Insurers are increasingly investing in new technology areas such as mobile and big data along with the usual legacy system updates, Novarica found in its latest annual study of U.S. insurer IT ...