Research
Why Hail Storm Losses Began Rising in 2008 Remains a Mystery
In 2008, the year the stock market crashed and Barack Obama won the presidency, the U.S. was hit with a weather phenomenon little noted by anyone beyond the insurance industry. The country's losses ...
Foundation Is Working to Report Flood Risk for Every U.S. Property
A group of scientists and a technology nonprofit technology organization have set a mission to calculate the past, current and future flood risk of every property in America. While institutional real ...
U.S. Cyber Premiums Slowed to 10 Percent Increase in 2018: Aon
U.S. cyber insurance premiums grew 10 percent in 2018 and 14 additional players began offering coverage in the sector, Aon reported in its latest study of the sector. Aon found that 184 U.S. insurers ...
U.S. Commercial Prices Rose Just Above 2 Percent in Q1: Willis Towers Watson
Carriers reported that U.S. commercial insurance prices grew just above 2 percent on average during the 2019 first quarter, according to Willis Towers Watson's latest CLIPS survey. Willis Towers ...
The U.S. Faced Record Reports of Tornadoes, Hail, Winds in May: Aon
The U.S. dealt with close to 4,400 reports of tornadoes, hail and straight-line winds in May, the most since 2011, according to weather data cited by Aon's monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report. ...
Market Hardening Could Benefit Reinsurers Through 2019: S&P
Following disappointing reinsurance pricing increases in 2018 and early 2019, it seemed that no amount of catastrophe losses would be sufficient to harden the overall market. However, during this ...
Market Trend: Millennials Buy More Flood Insurance Than Their Older Counterparts
Millennials — those born between 1981 and 1996— are nearly three times more likely to have purchased flood insurance than their older Baby Boomer counterparts born between 1944 and 1964, a new ...
Carriers, Lacking Resourcefulness, Increasingly Seek InsurTech Partnerships to Boost Digital Capacity
Carries seeking to boost their digital capacity for customer services will increasingly seek InsurTech partnerships to get the job done, predicts J.D. Power's 2019 Insurance Digital Experience study. ...