Research
Casualty ILS: The Time Has Come
The accelerating convergence of insurance and reinsurance with capital markets and the resulting effect on the traditional insurance and reinsurance business model have topped the insurance news ...
Sea Level Rise: New Iceberg Theory Points To Areas At Risk Of Rapid Disintegration
In events that could exacerbate sea level rise over the coming decades, stretches of ice on the coasts of Antarctica and Greenland are at risk of rapidly cracking apart and falling into the ocean, ...
Estimates of Global Hacking Damage Called Into Question
A $1 trillion estimate of the global cost of hacking cited by President Barack Obama and other top officials is a gross exaggeration, according to a new study commissioned by the company responsible ...
Long-Buried Seawall Protected Homes From Hurricane Sandy’s Record Storm Surge
Picture two residential beach communities on the New Jersey shore: Bay Head and Mantoloking, which side-by-side in Ocean County on a narrow barrier island that separates the Atlantic Ocean and ...
Managing, Not Excluding, New Risks Key To Long-Term P/C Growth: Actuaries
Property/casualty insurers must learn how to manage new risks like nanotechnology, not just exclude them, if they want to survive and grow long-term, according to speakers at the spring meeting of ...
Employee Personality Motivates Job Behavior, Not Carrots & Sticks: Univ. Study
Carrots and sticks have long been the favored tool for business managers looking to motivate their workers, whether it's to encourage with the promise of a raise, or to threaten with firing. But a ...
Airline Insurance Premiums Continue to Fall: Willis
Insurance premiums for airlines continued to go down during the first half of this year in what remains a buyers' market, according to a report by Willis Group Holdings. The loss of an Asiana B777 ...
Study Raises New Concern About Earthquakes’ Links To Fracking Fluids
Powerful earthquakes thousands of miles away can trigger swarms of minor quakes near wastewater-injection wells like those used in oil and gas recovery, scientists reported on Thursday, sometimes ...