Research
Is Wind Turbine Noise Causing Health Problems? Researchers Begin Study
Wind turbines provide clean, abundant energy and bolster America's power grid. But across the world people are banding together to fight wind farms, blaming noise for interrupted sleep and a host of ...
Changing Behavior of American Drivers and the Impact on Auto Insurance
Americans just love driving. They clocked 35,795,000,000,000 miles in 2014 and have far outstripped every other nation in driving mileage. Insurance companies historically have placed a great weight ...
Holes in the Market; Casualty Survey Finds Coverage Gaps to be Filled
While nearly 70 percent of risk managers surveyed are "very satisfied" with their casualty insurance programs, more than one-fifth report some gaps in coverage that they are unable to fill, a recent ...
Reputational Harm Claims Most Costly For Small Businesses: The Hartford
Claims involving libel, slander and violation of property – known as reputational harm in industry lingo – are the most expensive that small businesses are likely to experience. The most common: ...
Why Top Female Execs Earn Less Than Men: Incentive Pay Gaps
Even top female workers can't catch a break when it comes to pay inequality. Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York are out with a new paper on gender differences in compensation for ...
A.M. Best: Smaller Insurers Carry Advantage in Emerging Markets
In developing parts of the word, insurance carrier-size matters, but not in the way you might think. While large companies are making gains, smaller carriers are particularly thriving under the ...
Exec Pay Stock Options Boosting Top CEO Pay by Billions: Reuters Large U.S. Co. Analysis
Chief executive officers at large U.S. companies collectively realized at least $6 billion more in compensation than initially estimated in annual disclosures in the five years after the financial ...
Large Underwriters Not Yet Drawn to Google’s Auto Insurance Distribution Plan: Nomura
Google plans to tackle auto insurance distribution in the U.S. are making waves, but they haven't yet attracted interest from large underwriters, Nomura noted in a new industry report. "GEICO, ...